• Le Freischütz, Opéra Comique, Paris

    Updated: 2011-04-30 19:34:58
    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/cda8b8b6-6456-11e0-a69a-00144feab49a.html#axzz1JPvv5SoJ

  • Monodramas, NYCO

    Updated: 2011-04-30 19:34:58
    New York City Opera’ evening of “Monodramas” (under that general title) may not appeal to the opera-goer who prefers such typical fare as the company’ other offering this week, Donizetti’ L’lisir d’more, but I found it a devilish and delightful exploration of the depths of inner consciousness.

  • A Lively, Stylish Met Debut For Rossini’s Last Comic Opera

    Updated: 2011-04-30 19:34:58
    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/26/arts/music/bartlett-sher-directs-rossinis-le-comte-ory-at-the-metropolitan-opera.html?_r=1

  • Otello, Carnegie Hall

    Updated: 2011-04-30 19:34:58
    By the time he emerged from retirement with Otello, his twenty-seventh opera, at 73, there wasn’ much Giuseppe Verdi didn’ know about how to make an orchestra do his bidding, set the mood of each line of a good story, piling excitement on excitement and letting the tension mutate to something gentler at the right times in order to make the outburst to follow the more demoniac.

  • Wuthering Heights, Minnesota Opera

    Updated: 2011-04-30 19:34:58
    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/fe1d2968-69d4-11e0-89db-00144feab49a.html#axzz1Jyt92hUX

  • Daniel Catán, Composer of Operas in Spanish, Dies at 62

    Updated: 2011-04-30 19:34:58
    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/arts/music/daniel-catan-composer-of-operas-in-spanish-dies-at-62.html?src=me

  • Tosca, Palm Beach

    Updated: 2011-04-30 19:34:58
    Victorien Sardou wrote the melodrama La Tosca, a play subject to all sorts of incidental drama and off-stage intrigue, for Sarah Bernhardt.

  • The Magic Flute, Manitoba

    Updated: 2011-04-30 19:34:58
    It’ hard to go wrong with The Magic Flute. Mozart’ final opera contains every audience-pleasing feature in spades: beautiful music, a fairy tale story, romance, laughter, villains, heroes/heroines, and for most — a happy ending.

  • Dallas Boris a monument to Tarkovsky

    Updated: 2011-04-30 19:34:58
    In those dark days before VCR and DVD, knowledgeable film buffs craved the return of Solaris and Stalker to a local art house screen.

  • Strauss's Intermezzo: Scottish Opera whip up a perfect storm in a teacup

    Updated: 2011-04-30 19:34:58
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/mar/24/strauss-intermezzo-scottish-opera

  • Sumeida’ Song

    Updated: 2011-04-30 19:34:58
    It has long been my belief that the problems of the planet would be resolved (or move on to their next stage) if only the folk of every ethnicity (nation, faith, historic minority, tribe) would devote their energy to creating opera—and perhaps theater or dance—out of its musical and mythical traditions.

  • Christopher Maltman, Wigmore Hall

    Updated: 2011-04-30 19:34:58
    A Frenchman, three Germans and a Venezuelan-born French national: musical responses to Venice.

  • Monteverdi The Return of Ulysses, ENO/ Young Vic

    Updated: 2011-04-30 19:34:58
    http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/classical/reviews/monteverdi-the-return-of-ulysses-eno-young-vic-2252967.html

  • Sonntag aus Licht, Staatenhaus, Cologne

    Updated: 2011-04-30 19:34:58
    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/bcf09dda-65e7-11e0-9d40-00144feab49a.html#axzz1JW2V4gES

  • Soprano Majeski sparks venturesome Civic program

    Updated: 2011-04-30 19:34:58
    http://chicagoclassicalreview.com/2011/04/soprano-majeski-sparks-venturesome-civic-program/

  • Orlando Furioso, London

    Updated: 2011-04-30 19:34:58
    Adapting an extended literary work for the stage remains a challenge today and was no less so in the baroque era. Ariosto’ enormously long poem Orlando Furioso was extremely popular and inevitably his highly coloured characters found their way onto the operatic stage.

  • In for the long haul

    Updated: 2011-04-30 19:34:58
    http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/in-for-the-long-haul/story-e6frg8n6-1226025846825

  • Le Comte Ory, Metropolitan Opera

    Updated: 2011-04-30 19:34:58
    Rossini’ penultimate stage work, Le Comte Ory, belongs to the tradition of sexy scoundrel operas, along with such works as Don Giovanni, Zampa, Fra Diavolo, Barbe-Bleu, Les Brigands and Threepenny Opera.

  • Il ritorno d’lisse in patria, ENO

    Updated: 2011-04-30 19:34:58
    Benedict Andrews’thought-provoking new production of Claudio Monteverdi’ Il ritorno d’lisse in patria, the latest of English National Opera’ innovative stagings at the Young Vic, juxtaposes images of unremitting modernity with a tapestry of archaic aural colours, all placed within an antique frame which resonates with universal emotions.

  • Domingo not done with 'Il Postino,' but Texans have composer's OK to jump in

    Updated: 2011-04-30 19:34:58
    http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/03/placido-domingo-il-postino-.html

  • Séance on a Wet Afternoon

    Updated: 2011-04-30 19:34:58
    Saturday, April 23 was indeed a rainy afternoon in New York City.

  • Anne Sofie von Otter, Wigmore Hall

    Updated: 2011-04-30 19:34:58
    For the second time in a matter of just a few weeks, the Wigmore Hall audience were treated to an evening of seventeenth-century song and dance.

  • Die Kluge/Mesdames de la Halle, Zurich Opera

    Updated: 2011-04-30 19:34:58
    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/ceee993e-5fa6-11e0-a718-00144feab49a.html#axzz1IwtV6OkF

  • Minnesota Opera rescues Herrmann work

    Updated: 2011-04-30 19:34:58
    There’ more Byron than Brontë in Bernard Herrmann’ 1951 Wuthering Heights.

  • SFist Interviews: Soprano Melody Moore

    Updated: 2011-04-30 19:34:58
    http://sfist.com/2011/03/24/sfist_interviews_soprano_melody_moo.php

  • Muti, Standing Tall

    Updated: 2011-04-30 19:34:58
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704529204576257193932580966.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopBucket

  • Tosca, NI Opera

    Updated: 2011-04-30 19:34:58
    “Show goes on despite fresh bomb scare”. Not exactly the sort of headline a new opera company might have dreamt of for its inaugural production.

  • A Dinner Engagement

    Updated: 2011-04-30 19:34:58
    Trust Winnipeg’ resourceful Little Opera Company to come up with a little known, yet charmingly entertaining spring production.

  • La Clemenza di Tito by Mozart, English Touring Opera, Lyceum theatre, Sheffield

    Updated: 2011-04-30 19:34:58
    http://www.thestar.co.uk/lifestyle/music/review_la_clemenza_di_tito_by_mozart_english_touring_opera_lyceum_theatre_sheffield_1_3283453

  • Rigoletto, New York

    Updated: 2011-04-30 19:34:58
    Rigoletto is the perfect opera. Even Verdi, who wrote so many wonderful scores, never created anything more flawless.

  • New opera strives to illuminate the enigma known as Van Gogh

    Updated: 2011-04-30 19:34:58
    http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-live-0413-vincent-review-20110412,0,3673390.column

  • Fizzy “Ory” at Met Opera charms its public

    Updated: 2011-04-30 19:34:58
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/classical-beat

  • Capriccio, Metropolitan Opera

    Updated: 2011-04-30 19:34:58
    Richard Strauss, nearly eighty years old and past caring what anybody thought (Pauline aside), ignored the Second World War happening just down the street and collaborated with his longtime conductor Clemens Krauss in an arch libretto about the feud for primacy between poetry and music, concluding with their synthesis in opera.

  • A Magical 'Flute' Without the Fanfare

    Updated: 2011-04-30 19:34:58
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704608504576208381100985642.html?mod=WSJ_ArtsEnt_LifestyleArtEnt_4

  • Séance on a Wet Afternoon at City Opera

    Updated: 2011-04-29 20:57:06

  • Janis-Rozena Peri: Recital & Interview

    Updated: 2011-04-28 14:54:00
    Mona Seghatoleslami2011 04 28falseCenterfalse  On her recital this Sunday in Morgantown, Soprano Janis Rozena Peri will sing songs from different places and times in three different languages. Despite their differences, these songs some common ideas. We spoke earlier this week

  • Composer of the Week – Duke Ellington!

    Updated: 2011-04-28 03:32:03
    Happy Birthday (on Friday) to American composer, band leader, and pianist, Duke Ellington! Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an incredibly influential jazz musician who also composed gospel, film, and classical music. He earned twelve Grammy awards, multiple recordings were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, and he earned the Grammy ...

  • Cal Performances' 2011-2012 Season

    Updated: 2011-04-26 07:14:55

  • Anvils Gone Wild

    Updated: 2011-04-25 14:54:00
    Mona Seghatoleslami2011 04 25falseCenterfalseYou probably don't need any more things clanging around your head on Monday, but I can't get over all the versions of the Anvil Chorus from Verdi's opera Il Trovatore The Troubador are out there. Here are

  • Faust at San Diego Opera

    Updated: 2011-04-24 16:48:39
    : The Opera Tattler Subscribe to this blog's feed West Coast Opera Companies Los Angeles Opera Portland Opera San Diego Opera San Francisco Opera Seattle Opera Wozzeck at the Met Main April 24, 2011 Faust at San Diego Opera Notes The opening performance of a Faust revival at San Diego Opera occurred last night . Seen last season in San Francisco , the sets and costumes were designed by Robert Perdziola , with lighting from Michael Whitfield . Apparently the production , owned by Lyric Opera of Chicago , was actually designed for Tancredi In San Diego , it was redesigned for Faust 10 years ago and the staging this time around was done by David Gately . It was striking how distinct this performance was from the San Francisco performances last June , despite having the same sets , costumes ,

  • Donizetti Down & Dirty

    Updated: 2011-04-22 21:54:35
    Begin your Donizetti La Fille du Régiment experience with a martini and an excerpt of what the May 6 & 8 production promises. Singers will sing selections from the performance guaranteeing a fabulous evening. Donizetti Down & Dirty Thursday, April 28 • 6:00 pm Beside Bardenay • Boise • 610 Grove Street Reserve your tickets [...]

  • Free Preview of La Fille du Régiment

    Updated: 2011-04-22 21:46:59
    Don’t miss the free preview of La Fille du Régiment, Tuesday, April 26 at 6:30 at the Opera Idaho Studio. Make your reservations by calling Fernando at 345-3531 x2 or by email to fernando@operaidaho.org

  • Madama Butterfly Radio Broadcast

    Updated: 2011-04-22 21:43:09
    If you missed the opportunity to attend Opera Idaho’s performances of Madama Butterfly or you want to hear more, Boise State Public Radio is broadcasting it on KBSU this afternoon: Friday, April 22 • 3:00pm Turn your dial to 90.3 FM or log on to radio.boisestate.edu

  • Poetry or Music?

    Updated: 2011-04-22 14:54:00
    Larry Stickler2011 04 22falseCenterfalse What is the nature of opera? What is most important – the words, the music or the theatrical production? These are the questions being mulled over as we go to a chateau near Paris in the 1920’s.falseKen

  • General Director of Lyric Opera

    Updated: 2011-04-21 17:28:17

  • Composer of the Week – Franz von Suppé

    Updated: 2011-04-21 03:52:09
    Happy Birthday (On Monday) to Austrian composer Franz von Suppé (1819-1895). von Suppé is one of those composers who was born with an awesome long name: Francesco Ezechiele Ermenegildo Cavaliere Suppé Demelli. Once he was old enough he Germanized and simplified his name. von Suppé was primarily an opera composer, and ...

  • Casting Change for SF Opera's Siegfried

    Updated: 2011-04-20 22:18:33
    : The Opera Tattler Subscribe to this blog's feed West Coast Opera Companies Los Angeles Opera Portland Opera San Diego Opera San Francisco Opera Seattle Opera Merola's 54th Season Participants Main April 20, 2011 Casting Change for SF Opera's Siegfried Jay Hunter Morris will sing the title role of Siegfried at San Francisco Opera this Summer . He replaces Ian Storey who is still to sing the role of Siegfried in Götterdämmerung Storey has been recovering from illness over recent . months SF Opera Press Room SF Opera's Ring 03:18 PM in San Francisco Opera Permalink Comments Casting Change for SF Opera's Siegfried Jay Hunter Morris will sing the title role of Siegfried at San Francisco Opera this Summer . He replaces Ian Storey who is still to sing the role of Siegfried in Götterdämmerung

  • Ticket Giveaway – A Child of Our Time

    Updated: 2011-04-20 11:50:24
    This weekend's concert is a great choral work written at the outbreak of World War II by English composer Michael Tippett. Tippett was a pacifist and a conscientious objector, and he served a prison sentence because of it. A Child of Our Time is an oratorio that sums up Tippett's ...

  • Merola's 54th Season Participants

    Updated: 2011-04-19 20:58:47

  • Zhou Long Wins Pulitzer

    Updated: 2011-04-19 20:31:42
    Composer Zhou Long has just been named recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in Music, joining both an elite list of winners and an even more exclusive number of immigrants who have won the award. While it may seem odd to see the quintessential American music prize go to a non-native, the only official stipulation is [...]

  • 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Music

    Updated: 2011-04-18 22:31:57

  • Also Sprach Zarathustra, Concert Reviews.

    Updated: 2011-04-18 19:03:10
    It was a great concert this weekend, and it was a delight to have violinist Karen Gomyo perform the Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3! Here are some of the reviews from the concert: Canadian violinist Karen Gomyo was the evening’s soloist in a bracing performance of Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. ...

  • The Tetzlaff Quartet at SF Performances

    Updated: 2011-04-17 07:50:55

  • Angèle Dubeau: Music is Magical

    Updated: 2011-04-15 14:54:00
    Jim Lange2011 04 15falsePhoto by Luc Robitaille Angele DubeauCenterfalse

  • Schumanns Set to Save Classical Music

    Updated: 2011-04-14 17:59:08
    Pianists Elizabeth and Sonya Schumann are spearheading a project that will bring engaging musical experiences to children. The project is based at kickstarter.com, a web platform for funding creative projects. The sisters believe exposing children to high quality classical performances in a relatable context will create a new generation of classical music lovers. So, they [...]

  • Composer of the Week – Alberto Ginastera

    Updated: 2011-04-13 22:11:57
    Happy late Birthday to Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera! (1916-1983) Alberto Ginastera is one of the most important and well-known of the Latin American composers. He was very prolific, composing operas, ballets, orchestra works, concertos, and chamber pieces. Ginastera almost always tried to find a way to work traditional Argentine melodies, folk ...

  • Capriccio at the Met

    Updated: 2011-04-13 21:20:24
    : The Opera Tattler Subscribe to this blog's feed West Coast Opera Companies Los Angeles Opera Portland Opera San Diego Opera San Francisco Opera Seattle Opera Daveda Karanas' Schwabacher Debut Recital Main April 13, 2011 Capriccio at the Met An account of Capriccio this season at the Metropolitan Opera from the Unbiased . Opinionator Notes Indian Summer is used by music historians to describe the re-flowering of Richard Strauss' creative powers toward the end of his life , after the catastrophe of World War II . This re-flowering , which occurred after a period of jaded stagnation , was Strauss' response to the destruction of German culture during the Nazi period . One of the loveliest of the works from this period is the opera Capriccio one that he and his librettist , Clemens Krauss ,

  • Daveda Karanas' Schwabacher Debut Recital

    Updated: 2011-04-11 21:49:28
    : The Opera Tattler Subscribe to this blog's feed West Coast Opera Companies Los Angeles Opera Portland Opera San Diego Opera San Francisco Opera Seattle Opera Daniel Catán Main April 11, 2011 Daveda Karanas' Schwabacher Debut Recital Notes Mezzo-soprano Daveda Karanas gave her Schwabacher Debut Recital accompanied by pianist Allen Periello , yesterday evening . The program was designed around Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder , which ended the performance . To begin we heard songs from Liszt , all on themes related to the source texts of Der Ring des Nibelungen Likewise , Peter Heise's Gurdruns Sorg is a Danish translation from The Poetic Edda Karanas has a high , powerful voice with fine technique and lucid diction . There is a pleasantly metallic quality to her singing that never comes off as

  • Daniel Catán

    Updated: 2011-04-11 20:30:10
    Opera composer Daniel Catán died yesterday in Austin, Texas. He was 62. NPR | Biography

  • The Creation at PBO

    Updated: 2011-04-10 21:16:12

  • Vänskä conducts Larcher, Mendelssohn, & Vaughan Williams at SFS

    Updated: 2011-04-10 06:58:41

  • Your music, your station

    Updated: 2011-04-08 14:54:00
    Josh Stevens2011 04 08falseMm, coffee is especially good in my public radio mug with the Writer's Almanac playing...Josh StevensCenterfalse

  • Composer of the Week – Carlos Salzedo

    Updated: 2011-04-07 03:03:26
    Happy Birthday to French composer and harpist extraordinaire Carlos Salzedo. Salzedo's parents were both musical, and his mother was a court pianist to the queen of Spain. Salzedo began playing piano at a very young age and, after playing for the queen of Spain at age three, was dubbed her "little ...

  • Who Ordered the Ballgowns?

    Updated: 2011-04-05 02:04:08
    I snuck into the Costume Shop today, and found racks and racks of ballgowns! There are 42, to be exact (ballgowns, not racks). These beautiful ballgowns are headed off to Florida for Opera Tampa's production of La Traviata. Maybe they'll bring some sunshine with them, when they come back! :)

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