• German tenor thrills Met audience in solo recital

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    http://articles.boston.com/2011-10-31/ae/30342753_1_mein-ganzes-german-tenor-recital

  • Der fliegende Holländer, Royal Opera

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    Wagner’ Flying Dutchman returns to the Royal Opera House, London.

  • Intertwining facets of Italian High Baroque

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    ‘rotic oratorio’is the odd-sounding definition devised by modern scholars, such as Howard E. Smither, for those pious music dramas employing sex-laden plots from the Bible, the Apocrypha or the lives of Saints in order to give the audience moral instruction in a quasi-operatic, if generally unstaged, form.

  • Renata Pokupić, Wigmore Hall

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    In this appealing lunchtime recital programme, Croatian soprano Renata Pokupić demonstrated a rich, varied tonal palette and strong communicative skills as she spanned one hundred years of European song.

  • Carmen, Philadelphia

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    There are two ways to sing the role of Carmen: as a “grand opera” heroine and as a character from opéra-comique.

  • Lucrezia Borgia in San Francisco

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    Bad news travels fast. Though you are about to read another version of how American diva Renée Fleming failed to bring Lucrezia Borgia alive, let us begin by discussing a few other things you already know.

  • Menotti in German

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    As long as one keeps in mind that historical value is not the same as aesthetic quality, this DVD of early 1960’s live German TV performances of two short Gian Carlo Menotti operas makes for fascinating viewing.

  • Così fan tutte, Los Angeles

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    The Los Angeles Opera Company’ charmingly understated new production of Così fan tutte will please your eyes and delight your ears, but its story might grieve your romantic soul.

  • Eugene Onegin, Los Angeles

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    Kudos to the Los Angeles Opera Company for expanding its heretofore limited Russian repertoire and opening its 26th season with Tchaikovsky’ Eugene Onegin. The romantic work based on the novel in verse of the same name by Alexander Pushkin, is likely everyone’ favorite Tchaikovsky opera.

  • Joseph Calleja: The Maltese Tenor

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    http://astore.amazon.com/operatoday-20/detail/B004NY3TAM

  • Oedipe, La Monnaie, Brussels

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/27a154c0-fe28-11e0-bac4-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1c0MJ4NlZ

  • The Inaugural Cambridge Handel Festival: a rosy dawn?

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    The haughty beauties that are the ancient colleges of Cambridge were definitely feeling the heat this past weekend, and not even the cooling streams of the Cam and its tributaries could assuage the heat of an Indian summer in the Fens of Eastern England.

  • A Portrait of Manon — Young Artrists at the Royal Opera House

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    Without young artists, no art form will thrive or grow. The Royal Opera House’ Jette Parker Young Artists scheme nurtures the best from its young artists that their performances attract thoughtful audiences.

  • Delayed by Injury, Giovanni Still Arrives

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/27/arts/music/mariusz-kwiecien-in-don-giovanni-at-the-met-review.html?ref=music

  • Heart of Darkness, Royal Opera

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    There are some literary texts which, by dint of their intense compression of incident, their creators’firm control of structure, and the precision of linguistic nuance, do not naturally seem to lend themselves to operatic treatment.

  • Independent podcast - ENO OperaTalks: David Pountney

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/classical/features/independent-podcast--eno-operatalks-david-pountney-2362895.html

  • Mojca Erdmann: Mozart’ Garden

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    http://astore.amazon.com/operatoday-20/detail/B005LY46J6

  • Bluthaus, Theater Bonn

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/f8bc389c-e9c2-11e0-bb3e-00144feab49a.html#axzz1ZHEnUjra

  • English National Opera's The Marriage of Figaro - video

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2011/oct/06/english-national-opera-marriage-figaro-video?newsfeed=true

  • René Pape: Wagner

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    http://astore.amazon.com/operatoday-20/detail/B000XH2BI4

  • Béatrice et Bénédict, Opera Boston

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    How is one to write a Romantic opera?

  • La sonnambula, Royal Opera

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    Bellini’ La sonnambula does not have the most gripping or convincing of opera plots: a young girl sleepwalks into a stranger’ room, where she is discovered by her fiancé; disbelieving her pleas of innocence, he jilts her and plans to wed another; but, she is vindicated when she is spied on a nocturnal wander, and the lovers are reconciled.

  • Don Giovanni in San Francisco

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    Ossia Maestro Watching in Fog City. Ten years ago it was German provincialism, now it is the Italian sort wanting to take root in the War Memorial Opera House.

  • Sallinen’ The Red Line at Finnish National Opera, 2008

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    Some opera masterworks are admirable more than lovable — a distinction usually best revealed by the number of performances the work gets.

  • Threepenny Opera, Brooklyn

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    Should I wait until the end of this review to tell you how much fun, how much of a theatrical whoopee cushion Robert Wilson’ production of Die Dreigroschenoper has been at BAM last week?

  • Bluebeard’ Castle, Royal Festival Hall

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    Bartók’ only opera, a masterpiece to rank with other sole works in the genre such as Fidelio and Pelléas et Mélisande, was chosen for the climax of the Philharmonia’ year-long series, ‘nfernal Dance: Inside the World of Béla Bartók’

  • The Dallas Opera Announces Meeting of Key Milestones in the Planned Turnaround of the Company’s Finances

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    http://blog.dallasopera.org/2011/09/28/the-dallas-opera-announces-meeting-of-key-milestones-in-the-planned-turnaround-of-the-company%E2%80%99s-finances/

  • Opera North's Queen of Spades - in pictures

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/gallery/2011/oct/20/opera-north-queen-of-spades-in-pictures

  • Andreas Scholl: Bach Cantatas

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    http://astore.amazon.com/operatoday-20/detail/B00575MDQC

  • Pavarotti at the Metropolitan Opera

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    Luciano Pavarotti died in September 2007, just short of his 72nd birthday and only a few years after his last performance at the Metropolitan Opera, in Tosca.

  • Ildebrando D’rcangelo: Mozart

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    http://astore.amazon.com/operatoday-20/detail/B004LYWH02

  • Lieberson’ Neruda Songs and Theofandis’ Symphony No. 1

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    In 2006 classical music lost one of its great singers — American mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, taken at the height of her career.

  • Renée Fleming and Dmitri Hvorostovsky: A Musical Odyssey in St. Petersburg

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    Exactly what makes this entertaining, handsome video of Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Renée Fleming in concert an “odyssey”?

  • The music of Donnacha Dennehy

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    Love and Death is the name of one of Woody Allen’s earlier films, one built around parodies of Tolstoy and other Russian 19th century literary giants.

  • Don Giovanni, Metropolitan Opera

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    According to legend, when composing Don Giovanni, Mozart completed the overture last. It was written the night before the opera’s premiere, while his wife Constanze, a fervent taskmaster, plied him with food and drink to make sure he stayed awake.

  • Anna Bolena, Metropolitan Opera

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    It’s very unusual for the Met these days—or any major opera house, in any era—to present a glossy new production with two different stars in the leading role.

  • Carmen returns to the Opéra Comique

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    “Historically Informed Performance” sure has a nice ring — not only does the acronym capture the trendiness of the movement (“HIP”), but one has to admire the subtle put-down the term encapsulates.

  • Excerpt: 'Anna Bolena' at the Met

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/09/27/arts/music/100000001076456/excerpt-anna-bolena-at-the-met.html?ref=music

  • Aleksandra Kurzak: Gioia!

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    http://astore.amazon.com/operatoday-20/detail/B004P1YX4E

  • Controversy over Duluth Festival Opera's "Pocahontas" overflows to tears and curses in Burnsville

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:45:27
    http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/arts/controversy-over-pocahontas-woman-two-worlds-duluth-festival-opera

  • Further Casting Changes for SF Opera's Carmen

    Updated: 2011-11-07 22:14:34

  • Kendall Gladen as Carmen at SF Opera

    Updated: 2011-11-07 19:11:48
    : 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 Thomas Cooley and Voices of Music Main Further Casting Changes for SF Opera's Carmen November 07, 2011 Kendall Gladen as Carmen at SF Opera Notes Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's beloved production of Carmen Thiago Arancam as Don José and Kendall Gladen as Carmen in Act I pictured left , photograph by Cory Weaver was revived at San Francisco Opera yesterday afternoon . Nicola Luisotti used his lush , hazy style to good effect on the orchestra . The volume was occasionally overwhelming , mostly in Acts II and III . The string soli were strong .

  • LISTEN: Bach and Tafelmusik Baroque

    Updated: 2011-11-07 14:54:00
    Jim Lange 2011-11-07 false Jeanne Lamon & Tafelmusik are always top-notch, but countertenor Daniel Taylor is stunning. Center false Jeanne Lamon has been performing and recording early music since 1981 with Tafelmusik . Early music orchestras have certainly establishe

  • Thomas Cooley and Voices of Music

    Updated: 2011-11-06 15:53:40

  • Serse at San Francisco Opera

    Updated: 2011-11-05 18:06:51

  • Where Beethoven – Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony

    Updated: 2011-11-04 21:45:24
    Beethoven decided to take in the view of Salt Lake City this week. Identify where Beethoven is in the comments, and you'll be entered to win a pair of tickets to Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony on November 11-12!

  • Don Giovanni Log

    Updated: 2011-11-04 21:45:24

  • Composer of the Week – Vicenzo Bellini

    Updated: 2011-11-04 21:45:23
    To wrap up National Opera Week, we'd like to wish a late happy birthday to opera composer Vicenzo Bellini, who was born November 3, 1801. Bellini was a musical prodigy, and it is claimed that he could sing an aria by 18 months, was studying music theory at age two, and ...

  • Vivica Genaux at PBO

    Updated: 2011-11-04 17:40:11

  • Opera Week – My First Role

    Updated: 2011-11-04 04:45:25
    It’s National Opera Week! We have guest blogs this week from members of the Utah Opera family, explaining their love and relationship with opera. Are you also touched by the opera bug? Tell us about it on our Facebook page, or ...

  • Classical Calendar: November

    Updated: 2011-11-03 14:54:00
    Jim Lange2011 11 03falseGet thee to a live concert soon. Even if the weather makes you as grumpy as these characters.CenterfalseBarbara Nissman at Carnegie Hall  

  • Opera Week – The Opera Bug

    Updated: 2011-11-02 18:44:53
    It’s National Opera Week! We have guest blogs this week from members of the Utah Opera family, explaining their love and relationship with opera. Are you also touched by the opera bug? Tell us about it on our Facebook page, or comment on any ...

  • Opera Week – Fun in the Utah Opera Chorus

    Updated: 2011-11-02 01:44:54
    It’s National Opera Week! We have guest blogs this week from members of the Utah Opera family, explaining their love and relationship with opera. Are you also touched by the opera bug? Tell us about it on our Facebook page, or comment on any of the Opera ...

  • SF Opera's Serse Media Round-Up

    Updated: 2011-11-01 16:33:13

  • Menotti Concert

    Updated: 2011-11-01 15:57:16
      In observance of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Gian-Carlo Menotti and as Opera Idaho’s first-ever offering for National Opera Week, a free concert will take place Friday, Nov. 4, 7:30 p.m., at the Opera Idaho Studio, 513 S. 8th Street. The concert will feature Opera Idaho Resident Company members performing music by [...]

  • Where’s Beethoven for Beethoven’s Seventh!

    Updated: 2011-11-01 08:44:55
    You know how this goes, just add a comment to this blog post with where Beethoven is, and be entered to win a pair of tickets to Beethoven's Seventh this weekend! In honor of Halloween, Beethoven is exploring one of the quirkier landmarks in Salt Lake.

  • Philippe Jaroussky & Apollo's Fire at Cal Performances

    Updated: 2011-10-31 16:54:16

  • A Preview of SF Opera's Serse

    Updated: 2011-10-30 16:23:04

  • Luisotti conducts the SF Opera Orchestra in Beethoven

    Updated: 2011-10-29 07:01:00

  • Simon Keenlyside at SF Performances

    Updated: 2011-10-28 20:30:26

  • Casting Change for The Met's Götterdämmerung

    Updated: 2011-10-28 16:55:26

  • Dudamel conducts LA Phil in Adams, Benzecry, & Berlioz

    Updated: 2011-10-25 17:12:38

  • Education Opportunities this Week!

    Updated: 2011-10-25 03:53:45
    This week, our Resident Artists are visiting five schools: Dugway Elementary, Bluffdale Elementary, Butler Elementary, Columbia Elementary, and Dugway High School. National Opera week is Oct 28 – Nov 6! Watch our blog, Facebook, and Twitter for all sorts of fun things as we celebrate opera. Other upcoming education events: Tuesday, October 25 ...

  • Casting Changes for SF Opera's Carmen

    Updated: 2011-10-24 22:40:49

  • Dudamel conducts LA Phil in Adams, Chapela, & Prokofiev

    Updated: 2011-10-24 18:27:40
    : , , 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 Don Giovanni Log Main Casting Changes for SF Opera's Carmen October 24, 2011 Dudamel conducts LA Phil in Adams , Chapela , Prokofiev Notes Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Gustavo Dudamel pictured left marked the first of six visiting American orchestras to take residency at San Francisco Symphony with Sunday's performance . The program began with Short Ride in a Fast Machine from John Adams . The piece does not pull punches , and the playing was clean if not slightly brash . Enrico Chapela's amusing MAGNETAR , Concerto for

  • Dissonances: Quatuor Ebene's Mozart

    Updated: 2011-10-18 14:54:00
    Mona Seghatoleslami2011 10 18falseCenterwFALiEuv1xYtrueYou may have heard people talking about the "Dissonances" Mozart recording by Quatuor Ebène that is one of the thank you gifts when you donate to WV Public Radio this week. Check out the videos to hear

  • Education Opportunities this Week

    Updated: 2011-10-18 00:13:10
    This week, our Resident Artists are just visiting three schools: Holbrook Elem (Davis), Western Hills Elem. (Granite), and Indian Hills Middle (Canyons). If you follow us on facebook, you'll know that National Opera week is Oct 28 - Nov 6! Watch our blog, facebook, and twitter for all sorts of fun ...

  • More classical internet silliness

    Updated: 2011-10-14 14:54:00
    Mona Seghatoleslami2011 10 14falseCenterfalseWe have some good, substantive interviews to post for you here soon, but for now, while we're busy raising money to support WV Public Radio and this site, I have just a few more short silly things

  • Coffee & Conversation

    Updated: 2011-10-13 19:32:01
    So Many Operas, Why These? Join us this Saturday, October 16 at 10:15am for an insightful talk about the Operas featured on the 2011-12 Season of The Met: Live in HD performances. Followed by The Met live broadcast of Donizetti’s Anna Bolena at 10:55am. Edwards Boise Stadium 22 7701 Overland Rd Boise, ID 83709 (208) [...]

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