• La clemenza di Tito — Barbican

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    The last opera seria — Mozart’s late, austere masterpiece, and vividly brought it to life.

  • Levine conducts at the Metropolitan Opera: 1978 to 2006

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    Since his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1971, conductor James Levine has come to represent the house’s commitment to artistic excellence — reliable, professional, and immaculately presented.

  • La Traviata, NYCO

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    In his memoirs, Five Thousand Nights at the Opera, Sir Rudolph Bing, general manager of the Met from 1950 to 1972, discusses the Met’ move from 39th street to its current home at Lincoln Center.

  • Moby-Dick, San Diego

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    When Captain Ahab sailed the Pequod into San Diego this week, he brought a new American opera with him. Jake Heggie’ Moby-Dick is a stunning work likely to have universal appeal.

  • Beatrice and Benedict at the Wales Millennium Centre

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    Welsh National Opera presented a rather undercooked account of Berlioz’s tricky opera, in a revival of Elijah Moshinsky’s classic production

  • A Physical Barber by ETO

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    For an operatic masterpiece The Barber of Seville is surprisingly tricky to do well, it is not one of those pieces which plays itself.

  • Historical Performances from Covent Garden: Barbiere, La traviata and Tosca

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    Once the province of only the most dedicated opera fanatics, mid-20th century recordings of privately taped live performances have become more widely available.

  • Byrd: The Englishman

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    In this stimulating and uplifting performance, The Cardinall’ Musick, led by director Andrew Carwood, continued their comprehensive project to examine the works of one of England’s greatest composers — William Byrd (c.1540—1623).

  • Simon Boccanegra, LA

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    Sometime everything seems to go right. Just as the Los Angeles Opera Company did last fall, it opened its spring season with a baritonal eponymous opera; this time, Giuseppe Verdi’ Simon Boccanegra.

  • Rusalka, Royal Opera

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    It is a truth universally acknowledged that an interesting opera production will be met with incomprehension and lazy, philistine hostility by vast swathes of the audience in many, perhaps most, of the world’s ‘major’ houses, a truth that renders one all the more grateful for the Royal Opera showing the courage to stage this new — to London — production of Rusalka.

  • Elmer Gantry the Opera

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    The novels of Sinclair Lewis once shot across the American literary skies like comets, alarming and fascinating readers of that era, but their tails didn’t extend far behind them.

  • Metropolitan Opera National Council Grand Finals Concert

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    A major part of the rejuvenation of opera in the 21st century is the cultivation of young singers.

  • The Opera House that Almost Wasn’ — Le Palais Garnier in Paris

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    One of the main performing arts venues for opera, ballet and modern dance is Le Palais Garnier in Paris.

  • Miss Fortune mis-fires, Royal Opera House

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    An absurd plot has never stood in the way of a good opera. Unfortunately, Judith Weir’ Miss Fortune at the Royal Opera House isn’ much of an opera.

  • Previn conducts the LSO in the 1970s

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    André Previn’s leadership of the London Symphony Orchestra in the early 1970s resulted in some highly regarded recordings, including one of the classic accounts of Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony.

  • Elijah, Barbican Hall, London

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    The Barbican’ six-month series celebrating the English oratorio, has now reached Mendelssohn’ Elijah — or perhaps we should follow the Victorians and refer to it as ‘he Elijah’ given that it was performed in English, in William Bartholomew’ translation.

  • Albert Herring, LA

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    The Los Angeles Opera, anticipating Benjamin Britten’ centennial gave the composer, as well as its patrons, an early birthday present of performances of his charming comic opera, Albert Herring.

  • Barcelona Restores Cuts

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/gran_teatre_del.php

  • La forza del destino by Chelsea Opera Group

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    For sixty years, the Chelsea Opera Group has adorned London opera life. It doesn’ do mass market, but focuses on unusual and obscure repertoire. This audience comes for the music!

  • John Adams — Death of Klinghoffer, London

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    John Adams’ The Death of Klinghoffer is on at the English National Opera, London.

  • Don Pasquale, San Diego

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    You can’t keep a good opera buffa down. And Gaetano Donizetti’ Don Pasquale is about as good as opera buffa gets.

  • Finalists Named for Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    http://www.operatoday.com/documents/Nine Finalists Named for Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.pdf

  • Judges and Finalists Announced for the 2012 Lotte Lenya Competition

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    http://www.operatoday.com//documents/JUDGES%20AND%20FINALISTS%20ANNOUNCED%20FOR%20THE%202012%20LOTTE%20LENYA%20COMPETITION.pdf

  • Fleming in Strauss’ Capriccio

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    Is there somewhere in Italian opera repertory where, as a comic interlude, the portentous clichés of German opera come in for a skewering amid the luscious sunshine of Italianate lyricism?

  • A Child of Our Time, Barbican Hall

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    The Barbican’s English oratorio series now reaches the twentieth century, with Tippett’s A Child of Our Time, though it will step back to The Dream of Gerontius next month.

  • Mahler: Symphony No. 9

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    Based on performances given on 2 and 3 March 2011 (at the Barbican, London), Valery Gergiev’s recording of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony is an engaging and persuasive reading of the score.

  • ENO announces Mini Operas: A Worldwide Online Talent Search to Inspire People to Create Opera

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    http://www.operatoday.com/documents/ENO%20Mini%20Operas%20press%20release.pdf

  • The Los Angeles Opera — A Cultural Icon in Downtown LA

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    Los Angeles is often identified as “tinsel town,” a cultural wasteland. The city has long been considered as artistically irrelevant. Nothing could be further from the truth, especially with the arrival of the Los Angeles Opera in 1984.

  • Lucia and the glass harmonica

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    Flute players in opera orchestra around the world must look forward to the frequent appearances of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, knowing that while the stage spotlight in the mad scene will be on the soprano, the orchestral spotlight will be on their instrument.

  • Berlioz’ Roméo et Juliette — Opera with few words

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    Mark Elder and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment brought Berlioz’ Roméo et Juliette to the Royal Festrival Hall.

  • Royal Opera House 2012-13 season

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    “Opera is an emotional fitness centre”, says Kasper Holten, new Director of Opera, announcing the Royal Opera House 2012-13 season which mixes daring with prudence.

  • The Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition: Showcase Concert

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    Inaugurated in 1995, the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition is a triennial competition, held in the National Concert Hall in Dublin, which takes place over a week in January.

  • A Midsummer Night’ Dream, GSMD

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    There were high hopes for the 2012 debut production of A Midummer Night’s Dream by the Guildhall School of Music and Drama’s Opera programme .

  • Erwin Schrott’ Don Giovanni, ROH

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    Erwin Schrott triumphed as Don Giovanni in the Mozart/da Ponte series at the Royal Opera House, overcoming the limitations of the staging.

  • Aida in Arizona

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    Two live camels with trainers in Egyptian garb were stationed in front of Phoenix’s Symphony Hall to publicize the opening of Arizona Opera’ new production of Aida.

  • “Figures from the Antique”, Wigmore Hall

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    Modern and historic responses to classical tragedy and myth formed the unifying focus for this latest stage of Ian Bostridge’ year-long ‘ncient and Modern’project at the Wigmore Hall.

  • Victoires de la Musique Classique 2012

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    Last night’s French classical music awards show, the Victoires de la Musique Classique 2012, awarded the “Best Composer of the Year” honors to Philippe Manoury, 59, for his opera, “La Nuit de Gutenberg” (“The Night of Gutenberg”).

  • Abduction from the Seraglio, Philadelphia

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    Abduction from the Seraglio contains not a single ironic or cynical moment. Enlightened mercy and sincere love triumph totally over revenge, slavery and tyranny.

  • Giuseppe Verdi: Aida

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:24:48
    A perennial favorite among opera enthusiasts since its 1871 premiere in Cairo, Aida remains a popular work, and its strengths are apparent in the recent Decca DVD from the Metropolitan Opera, New York.

  • SFCM's Così fan tutte

    Updated: 2012-03-30 15:39:57

  • Adlers to sing Love/Hate at ODC Theater

    Updated: 2012-03-29 23:41:09

  • Bayerische Staatsoper's 2012-2013 Season

    Updated: 2012-03-28 23:19:57

  • James Gaffigan named Principal Guest Conductor of Gürzenich-Orchester Köln

    Updated: 2012-03-27 21:06:14

  • Dawn Harms conducts Symphony Parnassus

    Updated: 2012-03-27 05:02:23

  • The Little Match Girl Passion at SF Lyric Opera

    Updated: 2012-03-24 16:18:06

  • Opera Idaho at Ada Community Library

    Updated: 2012-03-23 22:17:41
    Join us this Thursday, March 29 at the Ada Community Library for a free program featuring a look at Opera Idaho’s April production The Ballad of Baby Doe, its history, [...]

  • Erling Wold's Certitude and Joy

    Updated: 2012-03-23 06:42:15

  • Introducing the Instruments – The Flute

    Updated: 2012-03-23 03:06:26
    This year through Concert Connections (the UBS-sponsored display in the lobby prior to performances) we've had some great questions about the different musicians in the orchestra and also about the different instruments that make up the orchestra. As part of a weekly feature on the Utah Symphony blog, we thought ...

  • Dawn Harms Interview

    Updated: 2012-03-22 05:47:52

  • A Celebration of Bay Area Music at UUSF

    Updated: 2012-03-20 22:37:38

  • American Mavericks: Monk, Reich, Foss, & Del Tredici

    Updated: 2012-03-19 23:15:40

  • Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions 2012

    Updated: 2012-03-19 02:45:48

  • SF Opera Annual Meeting 2012

    Updated: 2012-03-17 23:42:53

  • Opéra National de Paris' 2012-2013 Season

    Updated: 2012-03-16 05:56:06
    : The Opera Tattler Subscribe to this blog's feed Notes On About SF Opera's Future Seasons How Standing Room Works Official Blogs of West Coast Opera Companies Los Angeles Opera Portland Opera San Diego Opera San Francisco Opera Seattle Opera Vancouver Opera PBO's 2012-2013 Season Main SF Opera Annual Meeting 2012 March 15, 2012 Opéra National de Paris' 2012-2013 Season September 7- October 3 2012 : Les Contes d'Hoffmann September 8-27 2012 : Capriccio September 15- October 25 2012 : Le Nozze di Figaro October 10-30 2012 : The Rake's Progress October 15- November 11 2012 : La Fille du régiment October 23- November 20 2012 : Tosca November 22 2012- March 25 2013 : La Cenerentola December 4-29 2012 : Carmen January 22- February 9 2013 : Khovanshchina January 23- February 13 2013 : Le Nain

  • PBO's 2012-2013 Season

    Updated: 2012-03-14 22:00:31

  • Music Lovers and Fashionistas!

    Updated: 2012-03-14 00:02:21
    So, I'm pretty sure you know about the new Nordstrom that is opening downtown this month. Who doesn't? The opening of City Creek is quite a big adventure for downtown, and there are some great events happening. One of them is the Nordstrom Grand Opening Gala that will benefit Utah ...

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