• Gergiev conducts Wagner’s Parsifal

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:32:21
    A handsome black steed bows its head, eyes open, peering into the darkness around it.

  • Love Beats Science in a Spoof by Menotti

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:32:21
    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/arts/music/last-savage-and-wozzeck-at-santa-fe-opera-review.html?ref=music

  • Julia Lezhneva sings Rossini

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:32:21
    It seems very appropriate that a record company called Naïve should elect to release a solo recital for a soprano in her very early 20s.

  • The Makropulos Case, Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:32:21
    http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/b0a27de6-c44c-11e0-ad9a-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1V2l4nwtt

  • Boston Midsummer Opera’s Italian Girl in Algiers

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:32:21
    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.

  • Einojuhani Rautavaara’s Aleksis Kivi

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:32:21
    Great characters are at the center of all operatic masterpieces, yet opera almost never treads into “operatic biography” territory.

  • BBC Prom 21

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:32:21
    From the bombastic sweeps of Richard Strauss’ Don Juan, to the blissful rhapsodies of Walton’s Violin Concerto, and through the rhythmic surges of Prokofiev’s choral manifesto of socialist realism, conductor Andris Nelsons fizzed — indeed, almost exploded with energy and zest — and inspired clarity, control and freshness from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, on this their only visit to the Proms this season.

  • Prom 32: Brahms and Mahler

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:32:21
    Brahms’ Violin Concerto and Mahler’ Das klagende Lied did not seem to be the most obvious bedfellows — there has been some rather peculiar programming at this year’ Proms — and even after further consideration, the only real connection I could muster was that they were written at the same time: the concerto in 1878, the cantata between 1878 and 1880.

  • Opera at Grant Park Music Festival

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:32:21
    For its seventh program of the Summer 2011 season the Grant Park Music Festival presented concert ensembles performed by members of the Ryan Opera Center of Lyric Opera of Chicago.

  • Rigoletto, Miami Lyric Opera

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:32:21
    There’s hell to pay for profligate publicity; Giuseppe Verdi and Francisco Maria Piave knew this to be true.

  • Rodelinda Triumphs at Iford Opera

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:32:21
    Rodelinda is about as serious an opera as any that Handel wrote: attempted regicide and infanticide, violent death, betrayal and a marriage sorely tried.

  • La traviata at the Aix Festival

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:32:21
    An appreciation of La traviata plus La clemenza di Tito and Le Nez/The Nose at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

  • Les Contes d’offmann, Wolf Trap

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:32:21
    For opera lovers who are serious enough to even think of a performing career, the path is an arduous one.

  • Ariadne auf Naxos, Dell’rte Opera Ensemble

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:32:21
    Today’ general public labors under the unfortunate misconception that in order to enjoy opera, one needs to be educated and at ease with mobility in social circles largely consisting of decrepit old rich people.

  • Verdi’ Requiem, BBC Proms

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:32:21
    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.

  • Die Liebe der Danae, Bard Summerstage

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:32:21
    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.

  • Opera Grows in Brooklyn

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:32:21
    http://www.operatoday.com/documents/OperaOnTap.pdf

  • Nino Machaidze: Romantic Arias

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:32:21
    The back cover of soprano Nino Machiadze’s debut solo recital from Sony Classical quotes her as describing the disc’s selection of arias as “my world, my successes to date and my hopes for the future.”

  • BBC Prom 41

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:32:21
    This concert of three substantial choral and orchestral works by Benjamin Britten recreated the ‘0th birthday’Promenade concert which Britten himself conducted on 12 September 1963.

  • Don Giovanni, Salzburg

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:32:21
    When discussing the evolution of opera as a genre, the towering figure of Richard Wagner cannot be ignored.

  • Vincenzo Bellini: Zaira

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:32:21
    Zaira, Tragedia lirica in two acts.

  • La Bohème at Torre del Lago

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:32:21
    This is where Puccini composed many of his operas until the lake got so polluted he had to move to nearby Viareggio.

  • BBC Prom 55: Rinaldo

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:32:21
    It’ becoming rather a fashion to set operas in English public schools.

  • A Classic That Still Vexes as It Pleases

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:32:21
    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/29/arts/music/porgy-and-bess-at-tanglewood-festival-review.html?_r=1&ref=music

  • Carlos Kleiber — Traces to Nowhere

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:32:21
    Film biographies of great musicians notoriously exhibit a preference for talking heads nattering on over any music passages.

  • Two one-act comic operas from New York Festival of Song

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:32:21
    The New York Festival of Song, created and run by Steven Blier and Michael Barrett, dedicates itself to what one might call “American lieder” — art songs by top American composers, classic Broadway, and operatic numbers.

  • L’lisir d’more, Miami

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:32:21
    “The number of recordings testify to the continuing popularity of Donizetti’s melodrama in two acts [L’lisir d’more], which rivals Don Pasquale among his comic operas and is often rated the better on account of its superior libretto by Felice Romani.”

  • The Turn of the Screw, Glyndebourne, UK

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:32:21
    http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/39feb346-c742-11e0-a9ef-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1Vb3cv1nT

  • Orlando Paladino, Usher Hall, Edinburgh

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:32:21
    http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/78bcc222-d222-11e0-9137-00144feab49a.html#axzz1WXzEXs00

  • Edinburgh International Festival, various venues

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:32:21
    http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/f60bfc6e-c694-11e0-bb50-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1V2l4nwtt

  • Franz Schmidt’ The Book with Seven Seals at Grant Park

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:32:21
    In keeping with the festival nature of the piece, the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus, along with guest soloists and a guest chorus director, gave two performances of Franz Schmidt’ Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln on recent weekend evenings.

  • BBC Prom 50

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:32:21
    In 2008, the late Richard Hickox, founder and then music director of the City of London Sinfonia, commissioned a work from composer Colin Matthews to celebrate the orchestra’ 40th anniversary, which takes place this year.

  • Operas Based on French Literature

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  • Donizetti’ Marino Faliero at the 2008 Bergamo Music Festival

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:32:21
    Gaetano Donizetti is arguably the established opera composer with the highest ratio of failures to successes.

  • The Other Child in Papa Mozart’s Musical Troupe

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:32:21
    http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/08/19/movies/mozarts-sister-from-rene-feret-review.html?nl=movies&emc=mua3

  • Santa Fe: Best of Show 2011

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:32:21
    As this is written, the third week of August, the Santa Fe music season is winding down.

  • Adler 2012 Speculation

    Updated: 2011-08-31 13:13:23

  • Aug 31, Free Vocal Sheet Music "Ah, perdona al primo affeto" Vocal Duet by Mozart

    Updated: 2011-08-31 07:36:38
    Free vocal sheet music "Ah, perdona al primo affeto" is a little-known duet for high voices by Mozart. This is very pretty, and has all the charm we expect from Mozart.

  • Dancing with Satie

    Updated: 2011-08-25 14:54:00
    You too might have meetings to attend, dishes to wash, emails to answer, work to get done. You too can stop for a few minutes to dance a crooked dance with Erik Satie. falseCenterk9o6 U9ZR5otrueMy favorite recording

  • Composer of the Week – Karlheinz Stockhausen

    Updated: 2011-08-24 22:21:48
    Happy late Birthday (Monday) to German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007). Stockhausen was a very influential, but also very controversial composer of the 20th and 21st centuries. He did a lot of experimentation and work with electronic music. He also wrote a great many articles on composers and composition techniques. His experiments ...

  • Merola Grand Finale 2011

    Updated: 2011-08-21 21:00:00

  • Brian Jagde Interview

    Updated: 2011-08-21 06:00:00

  • The “Where’s Beethoven” Ticket Contest!

    Updated: 2011-08-19 00:44:39
    In case you haven't heard, we've got a lot of Beethoven happening this year. All nine of his symphonies, and his opera, Fidelio. We'll be having contests for each of the performances where you can win a pair of tickets to the show. Here's how it works: A week or two ...

  • Porgy and Bess at Seattle Opera

    Updated: 2011-08-15 21:43:45

  • Janacek mixtape musings

    Updated: 2011-08-12 14:54:00
    Mona Seghatoleslami2011 08 12falseCenterfalseI'm listening to music by Leos Janacek.Through NPR's First Listen, you can now listen to the New York Philharmonic's performance of Leos Janacek's opera The Cunning Little Vixen as a free online stream. (mix tape? mix CD?

  • Audition Dates Announced

    Updated: 2011-08-11 22:39:52
    Opera Idaho Children’s Choruses audition dates:   August 31 – September 3 • 4:30pm – 6:30pm September 4 • 10:00am – 12 noon Resident Company audition dates:   September 7 & 8, 4pm-7pm September 9, 4pm-6pm This is a great opportunity to showcase your talent and share your voice with the community. All are welcome [...]

  • PBO Summer Festivals Tour 2011

    Updated: 2011-08-11 05:44:39

  • Seattle Opera's Annual Meeting 2011

    Updated: 2011-08-10 02:41:17

  • Merola Opera Program's Barber of Seville (Friday)

    Updated: 2011-08-06 17:11:42

  • Merola Opera Program's Barber of Seville (Thursday)

    Updated: 2011-08-05 18:06:59

  • Hildegard Sings

    Updated: 2011-08-04 14:54:00
    Mona Seghatoleslami2011 08 04falseCenterfalsefalseCenterfalseHildegard is the star of the children’s book Hildegard Sings, and now she’s transitioned to the digital age in an interactive iPod iPad application version of her story falseLeftfalse  Meet Hildegard’s creator Thomas Wharton.  Wharton grew up

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