• Cendrillon, Royal Opera

    Updated: 2011-07-31 23:33:23
    Words, stories, books — the gateway to a world of fantasy in which anything is possible.

  • Sciarrino: Luci Mie Traditrici

    Updated: 2011-07-31 23:33:23
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jul/21/sciarrino-luci-traditrici-tarandek-review

  • Scenes from Two Marriages

    Updated: 2011-07-31 23:33:23
    By 1825, as Rossini’s operatic vein was approaching exhaustion, the Neapolitan Saverio Mercadante ranked as a front-runner for his succession alongside Bellini and Donizetti; much more so, however, in the field of serious drama than in opera buffa.

  • Two Boys, ENO

    Updated: 2011-07-31 23:33:23
    You would have had to be deaf and blind — or perhaps just a very wise monkey — not to have been aware that a young American composer called Nico Muhly was about to open at the English National Opera in London last night with a work called Two Boys.

  • Sensitive, intelligent Madama Butterfly, Royal Opera

    Updated: 2011-07-31 23:33:23
    This Madama Butterfly at the Royal Opera House, London, brings out the depth and intelligence of the human story Puccini might be trying to tell us, beneath the surface gloss.

  • G. F. Handel: Athalia

    Updated: 2011-07-31 23:33:23
    Athalia: Oratorio (sacred drama) in 3 acts

  • Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, Barbican, London

    Updated: 2011-07-31 23:33:23
    http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/7e811fda-a268-11e0-9760-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1QsjG4VyR

  • Luca Pisaroni sings Handel at Glyndebourne

    Updated: 2011-07-31 23:33:23
    Luca Pisaroni is one of one the more exciting young bass-baritones of his generation. In July 2011, he sings Argante in the first ever Handel Rinaldo at the Glyndebourne Festival.

  • Kat’a Kabanová in the big city

    Updated: 2011-07-31 23:33:23
    http://likelyimpossibilities.blogspot.com/2011/07/kata-kabanova-in-big-city.html

  • Opera in Contract Spat

    Updated: 2011-07-31 23:33:23
    http://professional.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303661904576454450184575890.html?mod=WSJ_ArtsEnt_LifestyleArtEnt_4&mg=reno-secaucus-wsj

  • Guillaume Tell, Caramoor Festival

    Updated: 2011-07-31 23:33:23
    For classical music fans, summer means only one thing: summer festivals. The goal of these festivals is to showcase a wide range of repertory with thought provoking creativity.

  • Operas Based on French Literature

    Updated: 2011-07-31 23:33:23
     

  • Boston Midsummer Opera’s Italian Girl in Algiers

    Updated: 2011-07-31 23:33:23
    This year’s venture for the annual Boston Midsummer Opera is an elegant reading of Rossini’s fizzy masterpiece of 1813, l’Italiana in Algeri.

  • Soprano regains her composer

    Updated: 2011-07-31 23:33:23
    http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/soprano-regains-her-composer-20110701-1gut4.html

  • La rondine, Opera Holland Park

    Updated: 2011-07-31 23:33:23
    Opera Holland Park’s unique selling point has always been a devotion to the more obscure works of Puccini and his Italian contemporaries.

  • Aix-en-Provence Festival 2011, France

    Updated: 2011-07-31 23:33:23
    http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/440cf328-a96c-11e0-bcc2-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1Re23yQVP

  • Placido Domingo announces Operalia winners in Moscow

    Updated: 2011-07-31 23:33:23
    http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/07/placido-domingo-announces-operalia-winners-in-moscow.html

  • Alexandra Deshorties carves indelible image as the wily sorceress in Glimmerglass's 'Medea'

    Updated: 2011-07-31 23:33:23
    http://blog.cnycafemomus.com/2011/07/12/july-10-glimmerglass-festival-medea.aspx

  • Did Tosca survive?

    Updated: 2011-07-31 23:33:23
    http://www.therestisnoise.com/2011/07/did-tosca-survive.html

  • Rigoletto, Miami Lyric Opera

    Updated: 2011-07-31 23:33:23
    There’s hell to pay for profligate publicity; Giuseppe Verdi and Francisco Maria Piave knew this to be true.

  • Der Ring des Nibelungen in San Francisco

    Updated: 2011-07-31 23:33:23
    Some of the experts said it was the best Ring ever, others merely said it was one of the best (these were lecturers at a Wagner Society symposium).

  • Rodelinda Triumphs at Iford Opera

    Updated: 2011-07-31 23:33:23
    Rodelinda is about as serious an opera as any that Handel wrote: attempted regicide and infanticide, violent death, betrayal and a marriage sorely tried.

  • Strauss Joins Sibelius’s Vacation

    Updated: 2011-07-31 23:33:23
    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/arts/music/richard-strauss-is-surprise-guest-at-bard-summerscape.html

  • The Puzzle Of Rossini’s Brief Career

    Updated: 2011-07-31 23:33:23
    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/arts/music/rossini-and-his-abrupt-farewell-to-opera.html

  • Artful: 2011 Aspen Music Festival inspired by literature, dance, painting

    Updated: 2011-07-31 23:33:23
    http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20110629/AE/110629822/1077&ParentProfile=1058

  • Tosca, Royal Opera House/La Rondine, Opera Holland Park

    Updated: 2011-07-31 23:33:23
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/opera/8645993/Tosca-Royal-Opera-HouseLa-Rondine-Opera-Holland-Park-review.html

  • Faust Reaches Santa Fe Opera — And How!

    Updated: 2011-07-31 23:33:23
    The celebrated New Mexico opera festival has, in its fifty-fifth season, created a production of Charles Gounod’ 1859 masterpiece Faust, its first ever.

  • Maria di Rohan/Saul, Buxton Festival, Derbyshire, UK

    Updated: 2011-07-31 23:33:23
    http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/0fa6d814-ab9d-11e0-8a64-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1SkUK6UTd

  • Verdi’ Requiem, BBC Proms

    Updated: 2011-07-31 23:33:23
    Not only did Verdi’s Requiem make its debut, rather remarkably, in the church of San Marco in Milan but the performance was as a liturgical one; Verdi’s intentions were quite firmly to provide a memorial mass for the Italian patriot, Manzoni.

  • Glimmerglass’s Annie Get Your Gun: Deborah Voigt descends from Valhalla and makes a hit on Broadway

    Updated: 2011-07-31 23:33:23
    http://blog.cnycafemomus.com/2011/07/17/july-16-glimmerglass-festival-annie-get-your-gun.aspx

  • Die Liebe der Danae, Bard Summerscape

    Updated: 2011-07-31 23:33:23
    In the modern operatic world, respect for the oeuvre of any given composer, as well as his stylistic development and placement in operatic history, is sacrosanct.

  • City Opera Players Provide Their Own Accompaniment at Labor Protest

    Updated: 2011-07-31 23:33:23
    http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/30/city-opera-players-provide-their-own-accompaniment-at-labor-protest/?ref=music

  • Inside a Master Class: Breathe, Punctuate, Forget Led Zeppelin

    Updated: 2011-07-31 23:33:23
    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/22/theater/master-classes-with-masters-like-raul-esparza.html

  • Wozzeck at Santa Fe Opera

    Updated: 2011-07-31 07:01:00
    : The Opera Tattler Subscribe to this blog's feed Notes On About SF Opera's Future Seasons How Standing Room Works West Coast Opera Companies Los Angeles Opera Portland Opera San Diego Opera San Francisco Opera Seattle Opera Griselda at Santa Fe Opera Main July 31, 2011 Wozzeck at Santa Fe Opera Notes Santa Fe Opera s revival of Wozzeck last Saturday was nothing short of impressive . The orchestra had a full and intense sound under David Robertson , only occasionally overwhelming the singers . Daniel Slater's production has a fine , stark clarity . The Fool played by Randall Bills as Wozzeck's double was artful . The set , designed by Robert Innes Hopkins , makes good use of the space , and is enhanced by Rick Fisher's lighting . The scene changes were smooth . There were just a few

  • Griselda at Santa Fe Opera

    Updated: 2011-07-30 23:39:24

  • Peter Kazaras Interview

    Updated: 2011-07-29 18:54:22

  • Merola Opera Program's 1st Executive Director

    Updated: 2011-07-26 16:13:10

  • Schwabacher Summer Concert 2011

    Updated: 2011-07-23 23:49:39

  • Dallas Opera cancels Katya Kabanová

    Updated: 2011-07-22 22:19:08

  • Composer of the Week – Peter Schickele

    Updated: 2011-07-21 00:26:16
    Happy late Birthday to American composer Peter Schickele, who was born July 17, 1935. A talented composer and educator, Schickele is also the creator of the famous fictional composer P.D.Q. Bach. Schickele has composed scores of works for orchestra, choral groups, school bands, and movies and television. He's also worked with ...

  • New Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster

    Updated: 2011-07-19 14:54:00
    Mona Seghatoleslami2011 07 19falseCenterfalseJust heard some news from up north Noah Bendix Balgley is the new concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Meet the new concertmaster, originally from North Carolina, in this video produced by our colleagues at WQED in

  • Update on Unusual Materials, Extraordinary Costumes.

    Updated: 2011-07-15 23:29:32
    We've heard back from our friends at Central City Opera in Colorado, and here are some of the photos from their production of Les Mamelles de Tirésias by Poulenc: The Tyvek jacket can be seen on the left in this photo: Here's some of the structural costumes. The garbage can on the ...

  • Chris Thile: Bach and Beyond

    Updated: 2011-07-12 14:54:00
    Aran Jenkins2011 07 12falseCenterhSZ40V0teGM trueIt’s one thing to be able to play an instrument proficiently. The world is full of gifted musicians, but among those gifted people, there are some talents that stand out even among the best of the

  • San Francisco Opera Ring 2011 Ticket Sales

    Updated: 2011-07-11 22:34:29

  • Music & comedy of La Fille du Regiment

    Updated: 2011-07-11 14:54:00
    Larry Stickler2011 07 11falseGo to the opera This Wednesday Because I said so Ken Howard The Metropolitan OperaCenterfalseAn orphan girl (soprano), a nice young Tyrolean (tenor), and a supportive family (the 21st regiment) make for a happy ending in La

  • Festival Opera's La Traviata

    Updated: 2011-07-10 16:28:40

  • Master Class with Martin Katz 2011

    Updated: 2011-07-09 20:38:46

  • SF Opera 2011-2012 Cast Changes

    Updated: 2011-07-09 03:41:53

  • Mahler & his World

    Updated: 2011-07-08 14:54:00
    Mona Seghatoleslami2011 07 08falseCenterfalseOne more belated bit of Mahler birthday celebrations, with a discovery from the very cluttered shelves of the West Virginia Public Radio library. In 2008, musicologist Timothy Freeze gave a talk with West Virginia Symphony Orchestra artistic

  • SF Opera's Ring Cycle 3 Media Round-Up

    Updated: 2011-07-04 21:35:12

  • SF Opera's Götterdämmerung Cycle 3

    Updated: 2011-07-04 06:34:06
    : The Opera Tattler Subscribe to this blog's feed Notes On About SF Opera's Future Seasons How Standing Room Works West Coast Opera Companies Los Angeles Opera Portland Opera San Diego Opera San Francisco Opera Seattle Opera SF Opera's Siegfried Cycle 3 Main SF Opera's Ring Cycle 3 Media Round-Up July 03, 2011 SF Opera's Götterdämmerung Cycle 3 Notes Der Ring des Nibelungen at San Francisco Opera came to a spectacular conclusion with Götterdämmerung Prologue pictured left , photo by Cory Weaver today . The orchestra played beautifully for Maestro Donald Runnicles There were only two or three sour moments , and even these were fleeting and did not detract from the overall brilliance of the performance . The horn and harp were striking . The music of Siegfried's funeral march was incredibly

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