• Grand Don Giovanni, La Scala, Milan

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:44:03
    More than a gala for Milan and for Italy, this wonderful Don Giovanni at Teatro alla Scala, Milan, was a gala for all the world, broadcast live internationally.

  • Roberto Alagna’ Pasión

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:44:03
    http://astore.amazon.com/operatoday-20/detail/B005TOXTG4

  • Faust, Metropolitan Opera

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:44:03
    At one point in The Met’s history, Faust was performed so frequently that one critic in mocking reference to Wagner’s opera house at Bayreuth coined the theater Faustophilhaus.

  • Anne Sofie von Otter and Brad Mehldau: Love Songs

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:44:03
    Brad Mehldau seems to be the “go to” jazz pianist for classically trained singers who want to venture into other musical territory than opera and lieder.

  • Berlioz: L’nfance du Christ, London

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:44:03
    I have somehow managed to miss Sir Colin Davis’ London performances of L’nfance du Christ, making it one of the final major Berlioz works I have heard in the flesh.

  • Call Her Flott — Felicity Lott sings in English

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:44:03
    Soprano Felicity Lott has concentrated her career in her UK homeland and in Europe, although she certainly has had her share of US appearances.

  • Silent Night, Minnesota Opera

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:44:03
    At the November 12, 2011 world premiere of Silent Night at the Ordway Theatre in St. Paul, a buzz of energy filled the audience.

  • Basel Chamber Orchestra, Wigmore Hall

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:44:03
    Founded in 1984, the Basel Chamber Orchestra has developed a penchant for programmes which combine the modern and unfamiliar with the traditional and renowned.

  • Otello in Zürich

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:44:03
    War and destruction is everywhere these days, not least in Pesaro where Graham Vick staged a lethal Mosé in Egitto last August, nor less so in San Francisco where baritone Thomas Hampson perished as Rick Rescorla in Heart of a Soldier last September.

  • Bernarda Fink, Wigmore Hall

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:44:03
    The Wigmore Hall marks the 75th anniversary of the death of Maurice Ravel with a series of concerts that run through to June 2012.

  • Belshazzar’s Feast, London

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:44:03
    The English Oratorio season at the Barbican Hall, London continued with Gerald Finley and two very different approaches to Belshazzar’s Feast — William Walton and Jean Sibelius.

  • The Bostridge Project: ‘ncient and Modern’

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:44:03
    This latest instalment of Ian Bostridge’ ‘ncient and Modern’series juxtaposed the tender melancholy of the Elizabethan age with the modernist anxieties of the early twentieth century, revealing both a sensitivity to textual nuance and profound human sensibilities which transcend temporal epochs.

  • Operas of Jean-Philippe Rameau

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:44:03
    Jean-Philippe Rameau, an organist and music theoretician, was active for much of his life in musical centers distant from the cultural juggernaut of Paris.

  • Verdi: La Forza Del Destino

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:44:03
    http://astore.amazon.com/operatoday-20/detail/B005OV1MX4

  • La Traviata: The 454th Performance at the Royal Opera House

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:44:03
    This performance of La Traviata was the 454th at the Royal Opera House, and the first performance in the 3rd revival this season of Richard Eyre’s production.

  • “‘ Heard a Voice’ the Music of the Golden Age”

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:44:03
    In contrast to much music-making on the continent, English composers born in the last quarter of the sixteenth century seem to have embraced a notable degree of stylistic continuity.

  • Stravinsky: The Rake’ Progress (Glyndebourne)

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:44:03
    http://astore.amazon.com/operatoday-20/detail/B005THVWQU

  • Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Royal Opera House

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:44:03
    Perhaps it’s no accident that Graham Vick’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg returns to the Royal Opera House for the Christmas season. Red, green, gold, sumptuous colours that warm a long, grey evening.

  • Karita Mattila at Carnegie Hall

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:44:03
    In 1983, Karita Mattila was the first singer to win the Cardiff Singer of the World competition.

  • Vienna State Opera Keeps It’ Team

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:44:03
    http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/01/vienna_state_op.php

  • Anne Schwanewilms, Wigmore Hall

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:44:03
    Combining innate musicianship and superb technique, Anne Schwanewilms showed once again that she can run the emotional gamut from light-hearted joy to deep anguish in this flawless performance with pianist, Charles Spencer.

  • A Noteworthy Ariadne auf Naxos, Chicago

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:44:03
    Richard Strauss’s opera Ariadne auf Naxos presents challenges in casting not only because of the vocal line and identity associated with individual characters but also because of its nature as a self-comment on the musical stage and the requisite dramatic skills thus needed.

  • Beauty of the Baroque

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:44:03
    http://astore.amazon.com/operatoday-20/detail/B004M8Y4Y4

  • The Enchanted Island, Metropolitan Opera

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:44:03
    This year is a big year for the Met. Of the seven new productions on the roster, two are the last two installments of a much-anticipated Robert Lepage Ring.

  • Strauss: Salome

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:44:03
    http://astore.amazon.com/operatoday-20/detail/B003LRQ0ZS

  • Rienzi, OONY

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:44:03
    For the first hour or so of the latest Opera Orchestra of New York venture, a concert performance of Wagner’s Rienzi, I often said to myself, This…isn’ so terrible.

  • Leoncavallo’ I Medici

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:44:03
    Ruggero Leoncavallo’s name is forever tied to that of Pietro Mascagni.

  • Così fan tutte, Royal Opera

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:44:03
    Repeatedly revived since its final appearance in 1995, Jonathan Miller’ Così fan tutte returned yet again to the Covent Garden stage as the second part of the ‘lympic’cycle of Mozart-Da Ponte collaborations.

  • Don Giovanni, Royal Opera

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:44:03
    Introducing the winter-spring season, ROH Chief Executive Tony Hall explains the (perhaps a tad spurious) Olympic ‘concept’ which has inspired the season’s programming, the five interlocking rings of the Olympic insignia motivating the performance of a series of works staged in ‘cycle form’.

  • La Bohème in Toulon, Marseille and Genoa

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:44:03
    Three La Bohèmes in ten days, a critic’s nightmare that was more fun than a barrel of monkeys.

  • Prégardien at the Wigmore Hall

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:44:03
    Hugo Wolf is a hard sell. Technical expertise isn't enough. The secret to singing Wolf is expressing the unique personality in each song. Wolf, perhaps more than any other composer, creates miniatures that open out into mini-operas when performed well.

  • Pergolesi: Adriano in Siria

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:44:03
    http://astore.amazon.com/operatoday-20/detail/B005UOK9HA

  • Le Roi et le Fermier

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:44:03
    A year or two back, Opera Lafayette, the Washington-based company that specializes in eighteenth-century obscurités françaises, presented Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny’ Le Magnifique, an opéra-comique about a race horse.

  • Wilhelm Friedemann Bach Cantatas

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:44:03
    In Wilhelm Weitsch’s well-known painting of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, the eldest son of Johann Sebastian seems far distant from the cantorial world of his father.

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina e la Compagnia dei Musici di Roma, Messa di Santa Cecilia

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:44:03
    Homage could take diverse forms in Counter-Reformation Rome, and this excellent recording by ensemble officium, Messa di Santa Cecilia, focuses on a particular instance that was interestingly polyvalent.

  • Charpentier and Purcell by Early Opera Company

    Updated: 2012-01-31 22:44:03
    Composed during the spring hunting season of 1684, for a patron and performance venue unknown, Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s brief six-scene Opera de Chasse (‘Hunting Opera’), Actéon, has remained seldom performed and something of a mystery.

  • Salome at San Diego Opera

    Updated: 2012-01-29 08:01:00
    : 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 Richard Egarr conducts PBO Main January 29, 2012 Salome at San Diego Opera Notes Yesterday evening's opening performance of the 2012 season at San Diego Opera was Salome . Seán Curran's production pictured left with Irina Mishura as Herodias and Lise Lindstrom as Salome , photograph by Ken Howard was seen in San Francisco two years ago , with the same sets and costumes designed by Bruno Schwengl , and elegant lighting by Christopher Maravich . There were some differences from the earlier performances in 2009, most notably in Salome's

  • Richard Egarr conducts PBO

    Updated: 2012-01-28 08:00:00

  • Where’s Beethoven? Beethoven’s Fifth

    Updated: 2012-01-27 21:43:59
    Beethoven is continuing his exploration of Utah. Do you know where he is now? Leave your guess in the comments, and be entered to win a pair of tickets to Beethoven's Fifth! Contest will close Thursday at 3 PM.

  • Casting Change for the Met's Enchanted Island

    Updated: 2012-01-27 08:35:24

  • Houston Grand Opera's 2012-2013 Season

    Updated: 2012-01-27 07:59:00
    October 19 - November 10 2012: La bohème October 26- November 11 012: L'italiana in Algeri January 18- February 10 2013: Show BoatJanuary 25- February 10 013  Don Giovanni April 18- May 5 2013: Tristan und Isolde April 6- May 11 013: Il Trovatore Details on the Season | <a href="http://www.houstongrandopera.org/"Official Site

  • Canadian Opera Company's 2012-2013 Season

    Updated: 2012-01-25 22:52:30

  • The Many Voices of Rigoletto

    Updated: 2012-01-25 20:45:12
    I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with baritone Guido LeBrón about Rigoletto, and I was fascinated by how he perceives each of the facets of Rigoletto's character, and how that personality is displayed through his singing. Hope you enjoy it as well!

  • Ensemble Parallèle's Great Gatsby Preview

    Updated: 2012-01-25 00:23:05

  • New Logo for LA Opera

    Updated: 2012-01-24 01:12:13

  • Enchanted Island Live in HD Met Simulcast

    Updated: 2012-01-23 03:45:01
    : 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 Dallas Opera's 2012-2013 Season Main January 22, 2012 Enchanted Island Live in HD Met Simulcast Notes The Metropolatian Opera's new Baroque pastiche , The Enchanted Island was shown as a simulcast yesterday . The English libretto , created by Jeremy Sams uses characters from Shakespeare's A Midsummer's Night Dream and The Tempest Arise , ye subterranean winds from The Tempest , or , The Enchanted Island which has been attributed to Purcell , was the only piece from this work . The score starts off with the overture from Alcina and

  • Dallas Opera's 2012-2013 Season

    Updated: 2012-01-21 00:28:59

  • Lyric Opera of Chicago's 2012-2013 Season

    Updated: 2012-01-19 00:33:47

  • What’s your Favorite Moment in Verdi’s Rigoletto?

    Updated: 2012-01-18 20:56:06
    We asked some of the artist from our upcoming production of Verdi's Rigoletto what their favorite moment is: What's yours?

  • SF Opera's 2012-2013 Season

    Updated: 2012-01-17 08:44:48

  • Susan Graham at Cal Performances

    Updated: 2012-01-15 17:45:29

  • Vancouver Opera's 2012-2013 Season

    Updated: 2012-01-13 01:00:00

  • San Francisco Opera's Grand Opera Cinema Series in HD 2012

    Updated: 2012-01-11 19:00:00

  • Washington National Opera's New Wave of Artistic Initiatives

    Updated: 2012-01-10 18:00:00

  • Have you always wanted to play with the Utah Symphony? Here’s your chance!

    Updated: 2012-01-07 15:42:10
    Utah Symphony | Utah Opera invites community musicians to take part in our first annual Symphony Pro-Am. Adult amateur musicians can apply online for an opportunity to play the 4th movement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 in a side-by-side performance with Utah Symphony musicians and conductor Vladimir Kulenovic on ...

  • Curtain to Fall on Opera Boston

    Updated: 2012-01-07 01:46:06
    About eight months ago, the Pulitzer Prize for music was awarded to Chinese-American Zhou Long for his opera Madame White Snake. Sadly, two weeks ago came the surprising announcement that the Opera Boston, the ensemble that premiered Long’s opera, would be shut down due to a budget deficit in the “tough economic climate.” The news [...]

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