• In a Laboratory, Turning Traditional Notions of Opera Upside Down

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/08/arts/music/08vox.html?src=mv

  • Il barbiere di Siviglia, Arizona Opera

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    The story of Gioachino Rossini’ Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) is based on Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais’1775 play, Le barbier de Séville.

  • Orchestra’s Opera Gamble

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/24/arts/music/24gilbert.html

  • Billy Budd / Così fan tutte, Glyndebourne, East Sussex

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b796fed4-6682-11df-aeb1-00144feab49a.html

  • Tristan und Isolde in Genoa

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    Tristan has been a fairly frequent visitor in Genoa over the past sixty years (post WW II). Tullio Serafin conducted the Isolde of Maria Callas there in 1948.

  • La traviata in May, Royal Opera House, London

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    Richard Eyre’s production of La traviata is so beautiful that it can be watched repeatedly, yet still yield pleasure. But appearances, however splendid, aren’t quite enough to make a completely satisfying evening.

  • New ‘Figaro’ sparkling, beautiful

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    http://jam.canoe.ca/Theatre/Reviews/M/Marriage_Of_Figarro/2010/04/26/pf-13727171.html

  • Smut and loathing in Powder Her Face

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23828539-smut-and-loathing-in-powder-her-face.do

  • Great Operatic Arias with Gerald Finley

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    Listeners who have appreciated Gerald Finley’ stylish and moving singing of baritone roles in operas by Mozart and other composers will be pleased with the recent CD release of Great Operatic Arias in English.

  • Ottone in Villa

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/may/23/ottone-in-villa-review

  • 'Rheingold' Glitters in Milan

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB127438870285494471.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

  • La Fille du régiment, Royal Opera

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    Expectations were running high for the opening night of Elaine Kidd’ revival of Laurent Pelly’ production of Donizetti’ mad-cap romp, La Fille du regiment — almost as high as Tonio’ infamous top Cs.

  • Betulia Liberata, Haus für Mozart, Salzburg

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/86102e3a-68da-11df-910b-00144feab49a.html

  • Mefistofele in Montpellier

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    Back in 1989 Ken Russell opened his Genovese Mefistofele with heavenly choirs contemplating the divinity of a praying mantis.

  • Lufthansa Festival, St John’s, Smith Square, London

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/4d838b82-6729-11df-bf08-00144feab49a,s01=1.html

  • Opera Lafayette's 'Sancho Panca'

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/25/AR2010052504888.html

  • Heggie’ Moby-Dick a whale of an opera

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    It’ glorious and it’ gripping; it’ grand — and it’ good! Indeed, Jake Heggie’ Moby Dick, premiered by Dallas Opera in its handsome new Winspear Opera House on April 30, is a work that restores meaning to basic vocabulary made banal by overuse through the decades.

  • Imbrailo stars as Billy Budd in Glyndebourne

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    Star born through stutter? It’ immediately obvious that Jacques Imbrailo’ Billy Budd at Glyndebourne is an extraordinary portrayal. His stammer is more expressive than speech.

  • Florian Boesch's daring recital at the Wigmore Hall

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    At the Wigmore Hall, performers can chose daring repertoire, because audiences there are unusually receptive. Florian Boesch and Malcolm Martineau presented Schubert and Hugo Wolf with Zemlinsky and Ernst Krenek.

  • James Conlon, Los Angeles Opera's 'Ring' master

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    http://articles.latimes.com/2010/may/23/entertainment/la-ca-conlon-20100523

  • Washington National Opera's 'Hamlet' done in Cold War style

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/lifestyle/Washington-National-Opera_s-_Hamlet_-done-in-Cold-War-style-94607579.html

  • Even the walls wept as Dietrich's spiritual heir sang auf wiedersehen

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/even-the-walls-wept-as-dietrichs-spiritual-heir-sang-auf-wiedersehen-20100520-vnwi.html

  • Valencia Ring: Das Rheingold

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    Recorded live at the Palau de les Arts “Reina Sofia”, Valencia, this new video of Richard Wagner’ Das Rheingold is based on the staging of La Fura dels Baus, with Carlus Padrissa, stage director, and featuring an international cast conducted by Zubin Mehta.

  • Opera Cleveland presents a winning new "Lucia"

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    http://www.cleveland.com/musicdance/index.ssf/2010/05/lucia_review.html

  • At Prague Spring, new works and a lighthearted farewell

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    http://www.praguepost.com/night-and-day/stage/4493-arrivals-and-departures.html

  • Juan Diego Flórez, Barbican, London

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/ee20f1dc-5c44-11df-93f6-00144feab49a.html

  • Der Fliegende Holländer, New York

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    Pick the word: soupçon? snippet? tidbit? quark? to describe the infinitesimal bite of Wagner bestowed upon us by the Met this year — and we had to wait till the end of April, to boot!

  • 'La Traviata' revival expressive, impressive

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20100511__La_Traviata__revival_expressive__impressive.html

  • Garsington Opera preview

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/leisure/8176159.Garsington_Opera_preview/

  • 'Amelia': Seattle Opera embraces challenge on a grand scale

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011825569_vietopera10m.html?prmid=head_more

  • Modern English Song Alive and Well

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    London’ Wigmore Hall is one of the world’ great centres for art song. This recital, by Susan Bickley and Iain Burnside, specialists in the genre, showed that English language art song is alive and thriving.

  • Canny tale of a femme fatale

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/79659804-5c51-11df-93f6-00144feab49a.html

  • The Power of Powder: Thomas Adès at the Royal Opera House, London

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    Thomas Adès’ Powder Her Face is back at the Linbury Studio Theatre at the Royal Opera House. It's a classic. Once again, Joan Rodgers sings the Duchess, supported by Alan Ewing, Iain Paton and the incomparable Rebecca Bottone, all in multiple roles.

  • Opera News columnist takes music critics (myself included) to task over Leonard Slatkin fiasco at the Met

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    http://thestar.blogs.com/soundmind/2010/05/opera-news-columnist-takes-music-critics-myself-included-to-task-over-leonard-slatkin-fiasco-at-the-.html

  • The Last Superstar Tenor

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704852004575258543852137052.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_TOPRightCarousel

  • Rossini’ Armida, New York

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    Armida is fabulous. That is to say, the story is a fable. Rinaldo, the very type of Christian warrior, is torn between his duty to lead the First Crusade and the sensual ecstasies offered by the beautiful sorceress Armida.

  • Michel van der Aa : After Life at the Barbican, London

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    “If you could take any one memory with you to eternity, which one would you choose?” In Michel van der Aa’s After Life several people meet in a waiting room.

  • A Midsummer Night’ Dream

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    A Midsummer Night’ Dream, a comedy in five acts with incidental music.

  • No Elephants — Aida at the Royal Opera House, London

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    It’ time Verdi got attention in Aida, not elephants.

  • Antony Walker: Big things lie ahead for opera conductor

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/09/AR2010050902954.html

  • Interview: Sir Andrew Davies - Conductor

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:39:53
    http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/Interview-Sir-Andrew-Davies-.6302682.jp

  • Das Rheingold at LA Opera

    Updated: 2010-05-30 07:38:50

  • MTT Conducts Mozart, Holloway, & Schumann

    Updated: 2010-05-29 22:42:31

  • The National at the Fox Theater

    Updated: 2010-05-28 22:03:09

  • MTT conducts Stravinsky, Bernstein, & Ravel

    Updated: 2010-05-24 23:13:37

  • Cellist Stephen Ballou (interview)

    Updated: 2010-05-24 14:54:00
    Mona Seghatoleslami2010 05 24falseCenterfalseStephen Ballou is busy most of the year playing cello in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.  He started his summer "vacation" by playing a recital this at the Landes Arts Center in Petersburg.  He played music by J.S.

  • Met Opera Summer Encores

    Updated: 2010-05-20 14:54:00
    Mona Seghatoleslami2010 05 20falseCenterfalseLast night, a friend and I went to the mall to catch an opera the Metropolitan Opera HD broadcast of Armida by Gioacchino Rossini. The singing was beautiful, and the sets and costumes were imaginative. I don’t

  • Eleazar Rodriguez's Senior Recital

    Updated: 2010-05-18 18:26:17

  • Brancoveanu sings Sviridov

    Updated: 2010-05-17 18:36:59

  • Singers Criticize Director of LA Opera's Ring

    Updated: 2010-05-14 23:42:22
    The LA Times reports that tenor John Treleaven (Siegfried) and soprano Linda Watson (Brünnhilde) do not seem to enjoy Achim Freyer's production of the Ring at Los Angeles Opera. The first cycle opens May 29th. LA Times | Ring Festival LA  LA Opera

  • Buy Opera Idaho tickets online!

    Updated: 2010-05-14 22:40:43
    Opera Idaho and the Egyptian Theatre have teamed up to bring you online ticket sales. Which means you can order single tickets for all of Opera Idaho’s productions and concerts wherever you have access to a computer and the internet: at home, at work, on your Blackberry or IPhone. The convenience of online ticket sales also includes the ability [...]

  • MET Live in HD Summer Series announced!

    Updated: 2010-05-12 19:26:01
    From Fathom Events: The Met: Live in HD – 2010 Summer Series This summer, enjoy select encore performances from the award-winning series The Met: Live in HD Encore presentations will take place on Wednesday evenings at 6:30 PM each time zone across the country. Don’t miss this opportunity to experience the excitement of opera, captured live from the stage [...]

  • SF Performances' 2010-2011 Season

    Updated: 2010-05-11 20:58:13

  • Amelia Media Round-Up

    Updated: 2010-05-11 00:00:00

  • Amelia at Seattle Opera

    Updated: 2010-05-09 20:06:34

  • Savonlinna Opera Festival's Opera by You Project

    Updated: 2010-05-08 15:16:38

  • Pleasant Distractions

    Updated: 2010-05-07 14:54:00
    Mona Seghatoleslami2010 05 07falseCenterfalseOn the off chance that you're spending any time indoors now that it's spring (and a lovely spring it is), here are some fun classical distractions that have caught my attention recently NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts, especially

  • Cal Performances' 2010-2011 Videos

    Updated: 2010-05-06 16:16:46
    : The Opera Tattler About Subscribe to this blog's feed Notes On The 2010-2011 Season SF Opera's Future Seasons How Standing Room Works 2009-2010 Season Serse in Houston The Tender Land in El Cerrito The Stronger The Impresario in Livermore Die Gezeichneten in LA Orlando in SF Hamlet in NYC The Nose in NYC Don Giovanni in El Cerrito Nabucco in San Diego Agrippina in Berlin Figaro in Berlin Don Carlo in Paris Idomeneo in Paris Giulio Cesare in Paris Wozzeck in SF Il Barbiere in LA Tamerlano in LA From the House of the Dead in NYC Turandot in NYC Il Trittico in NYC Kepler in NYC Otello in SF Dido Aeneas in SF Salome in SF Aida in NYC La Fille in SF A House in Bali in Berkeley Entführung in SF Il Trittico in SF Manon in San José Il Trovatore in SF Semele in Brussels More Opera Reviews Opera

  • Cal Performances' 2010-2011 Season

    Updated: 2010-05-04 21:05:59

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