• La Fille du Regiment, Royal Opera

    Updated: 2012-05-31 17:22:23
    The regiment marches onwards!

  • A Tempest in Vienna

    Updated: 2012-05-31 17:22:23
    http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/05/thunder_storm_a.php

  • Manon, Metropolitan Opera

    Updated: 2012-05-31 17:22:23
    Massenet’ Manon succeeds in the theater when the soprano has a real sense of the role and how she wants to present it.

  • Lyric Opera Posts Annual Report

    Updated: 2012-05-31 17:22:23
    The Lyric Opera of Chicago announced their financial figures in their annual report and “balanced its budget” for the 2011-2012 season, according to general director Anthony Freud.

  • LA Opera Names New CEO

    Updated: 2012-05-31 17:22:23
    http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/04/christopher_koe.php

  • More Casting Changes at Bayreuth

    Updated: 2012-05-31 17:22:23
    http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/05/torsten_kerl_to.php

  • Billy Budd — Metropolitan Opera

    Updated: 2012-05-31 17:22:23
    The Met saved the best of the season for the end of it, revivals of their first-rate productions of two twentieth-century masterpieces, Jánaček’ Makropoulos Case and Britten’ Billy Budd.

  • Bartók and Szymanowski, Barbican Hall

    Updated: 2012-05-31 17:22:23
    In this, the second of two LSO concerts in which Péter Eötvös replaced Pierre Boulez, one continued to feel the loss of the latter in his repertoire, yet one equally continued to value his replacement, very much his own man.

  • “Balanced Budget” in Chicago

    Updated: 2012-05-31 17:22:23
    http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/05/lyric_opera_pos.php

  • Show Boat at Lyric Opera of Chicago

    Updated: 2012-05-31 17:22:23
    Lyric Opera of Chicago has begun with the current season’s production of Show Boat a series of musicals of the American theater to be featured in coming years.

  • Christopher Koelsch Tapped by LA Opera

    Updated: 2012-05-31 17:22:23
    Christopher Koelsch has been tapped Wednesday as the new president and chief executive officer of the Los Angeles Opera. Koelsch, 41, was the opera’s chief financial officer and will take the new post September 15.

  • History Repeating

    Updated: 2012-05-31 17:22:23
    Iestyn Davies’Wigmore Hall recital, ‘istory Repeating’ may have explored various composers’engagement with, and reinterpretation and reinvigoration of, music of the past, but Davies himself is very much the countertenor of the moment, and undoubtedly an exciting and fulfilling future lies ahead.

  • Xu Zhong Tapped by Teatro Massimo Bellini

    Updated: 2012-05-31 17:22:23
    http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/04/chinese_conduct.php

  • Tristan und Isolde, Welsh National Opera

    Updated: 2012-05-31 17:22:23
    Yannis Kokkos originally directed and designed Tristan und Isolde as a co-production for Welsh National Opera and Scottish Opera nearly 20 years ago. The production’s latest revival, directed by Peter Watson, was premiered at the Wales Millennium Centre on 19 May 2012.

  • My Big Fat American Moustache: A Wartime Così Fan Tutte

    Updated: 2012-05-31 17:22:23
    An energetic and exceptionally entertaining production of Così fan tutte sung in English and set during World War II, when the Americans often got the girls.

  • Staatsoper Unter den Linden: Another Setback

    Updated: 2012-05-31 17:22:23
    http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/05/more_delays_for.php

  • Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge: Serate Musicali

    Updated: 2012-05-31 17:22:23
    Originally released on multiple discs in 1981 this reissue on two CDs is a comprehensive collection of art songs by Italian and French composers from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

  • Daughter of the Regiment, Manitoba Opera

    Updated: 2012-05-31 17:22:23
    Manitoba Opera laid aside all stereotypes about opera being stuffy and inaccessible with its feel-good production of Donizetti’ 1840 comic opera Daughter of the Regiment.

  • Der Freischütz, London

    Updated: 2012-05-31 17:22:23
    The unfashionableness of Der Freischütz in England is a little baffling. In its day, not only was the opera celebrated across Germany, it soon conquered other European stages and indeed theatres worldwide.

  • Financial Crisis at Köln

    Updated: 2012-05-31 17:22:23
    http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/04/cologne_opera_t.php

  • The Barber of Seville, San Diego

    Updated: 2012-05-31 17:22:23
    Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais’ classic play The Barber of Seville, set by Rossini to perfectly paced and irresistibly comic music, was first performed in Rome in 1816, and remains one of the world’s favorite operas.

  • Véronique Gens, Wigmore Hall, London

    Updated: 2012-05-31 17:22:23
    Véronique Gens’s recital at the Wigmore Hall, London, was an almost ideal distillation of the belle époque in song.

  • Wolfgang Rihm’ Jakob Lenz by ENO

    Updated: 2012-05-31 17:22:23
    When the ENO does really innovative work, it does so with style. Wolfgang Rihm’ Jakob Lenz may have taken 34 years to reach London fully staged, but this ENO production made such a strong impression that it might be years before it will be forgotten.

  • More Drama in Köln

    Updated: 2012-05-31 17:22:23
    http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/04/uwe_eric_laufen.php

  • Glyndebourne Janáček The Cunning Little Vixen

    Updated: 2012-05-31 17:22:23
    Glyndebourne’ 2012 season started in great style with Leoš Janáček’ The Cunning Little Vixen. Its rapturous reception would suggest that this could become a Glyndebourne perennial.

  • Richard Strauss: Salome

    Updated: 2012-05-31 17:22:23
    An exciting contribution to the discography of this popular opera, the live performance of Richard Strauss’s Salome from the Festspielhaus at Baden-Baden is a compelling DVD.

  • Manon Lescaut, Philadelphia

    Updated: 2012-05-31 17:22:23
    It is Manon month in the Mid-Atlantic states. In New York, the Met is presenting Massanet’s take, while Opera Company of Philadelphia has just opened Puccini’s version: his first successful opera, Manon Lescaut.

  • Chinese Conductor to Lead Italian Opera

    Updated: 2012-05-31 17:22:23
    The Chinese conductor and pianist Xu Zhong will be the new artistic director of an Italian opera house, the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania.

  • Teatro Real Replaces Miguel Muñiz

    Updated: 2012-05-31 17:22:23
    http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/04/ignacio_garcia-.php

  • Philip Glass: Einstein on the Beach, Barbican, London

    Updated: 2012-05-31 17:22:23
    Any performance of Philip Glass’ epic Einstein on the Beach (1976) is a major event. The work’s duration is around five hours and it is directed to be performed without interval (although see below — we had one).

  • La bohème, Royal Opera House, London

    Updated: 2012-05-31 17:22:23
    A robust Mimì and a self-regarding Rodolfo impart a distinctive flavour to this full-throttled version of John Copley’s evergreen La bohème.

  • Two from Florence

    Updated: 2012-05-31 17:22:23
    The double bill of Zemlinsky’s A Florentine Tragedy with Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, currently being presented by the Canadian Opera Company, is a marriage made in heaven, a pair of complementary opposites who seem to belong together.

  • Semele, Canadian Opera Company

    Updated: 2012-05-31 17:22:23
    You never can tell. I would never have predicted which opera would be my favourite of the seven operas programmed this season by the Canadian Opera Company.

  • Armide, Opera Atelier

    Updated: 2012-05-31 17:22:23
    I have to rethink my week, because somehow I have to get to see Opera Atelier’s production of Jean-Baptiste Lully’s Armide again.

  • The Kathleen Ferrier Awards 2012

    Updated: 2012-05-31 17:22:23
    This year’s Kathleen Ferrier Awards final was both a competition and a celebration, marking as it did the centenary anniversary of the great singer’s birth.

  • No Brünnhilde by Angela Denoke

    Updated: 2012-05-31 17:22:23
    http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/04/denoke_bows_out.php

  • Il barbiere di Siviglia at Opéra de Paris

    Updated: 2012-05-25 16:16:13
    : 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 Long Day's Journey into Night at the Apollo Theatre Main May 25, 2012 Il barbiere di Siviglia at Opéra de Paris Notes Coline Serreau's 2002 production of Il barbiere di Siviglia second half of Act I pictured left , photograph by Christian Leiber opened Thursday night at Opéra national de Paris Conducted by Marco Armiliato , the orchestra floated in the overture , but was somewhat loud at times . The members of the chorus were clear , and moved well in the . choreography The principals are all fine actors . Carlo Cigni's Basilio is

  • Where’s Beethoven – Symphony No. 1

    Updated: 2012-05-22 22:42:23
    The final Beethoven symphony means the final Where's Beethoven contest. But don't worry - we're sure that Beethoven will find more time to explore Utah with us. Let us know where Beethoven is by noon on Thursday - a random winner will receive tickets to this weekend's season finale, Beethoven ...

  • Art Song Recital Series

    Updated: 2012-05-21 17:33:32
    Come join us on Sunday, June 10 at 2:30pm. Free Admission At the Boise Philharmonic Reception Room 516 South 9th Street, Boise Featuring Opera Idaho Resident Company singers: Victoria Arriero, Jennifer Burke, Melody [...]

  • Long Day's Journey into Night at the Apollo Theatre

    Updated: 2012-05-18 11:24:40
    : 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 Met Cast Changes 2012-2013 as of 5 17 2012 Main May 18, 2012 Long Day's Journey into Night at the Apollo Theatre Notes A new production of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night opened at the Apollo Theatre in London last month . Directed by Anthony Page , the play stars David Suchet as James Tyrone and Laurie Metcalf as Mary Cavan Tyrone pictured left , photograph by Alastair Muir The detailed set , designed by Lez Brotherston was beautifully lit by Mark Henderson . The leads are strong and act with great intensity . Suchet is

  • Met Cast Changes 2012-2013 (as of 5/17/2012)

    Updated: 2012-05-17 15:19:34

  • Gilbert conducts NY Phil in Berlioz, Bartók, Debussy, & Ravel

    Updated: 2012-05-15 22:01:26
    : , , , 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 La Bohème at LA Opera Main May 15, 2012 Gilbert conducts NY Phil in Berlioz , Bartók , Debussy , Ravel Notes Last night Alan Gilbert and New York Philharmonic pictured left played a second performance at San Francisco Symphony The evening began with a very cheerful Le Corsaire Overture by Berlioz . Bartók's Violin Concerto No . 1 was sober in contrast , and soloist Glenn Dicterow played elegantly , with long lines . Dicterow listened carefully to the rest of the orchestra , not a surprise given that he is the concertmaster . At

  • Where’s Beethoven? – Beethoven Symphony No. 2

    Updated: 2012-05-14 18:34:01
    Beethoven's taking advantage of the great weather to get outside! Let us know in the comments where you think Beethoven is. Comment before Thursday the 17th at noon and be entered to win a pair of tickets to this weekend's performance, Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1, with Beethoven's Symphony No. 2.

  • La Bohème at LA Opera

    Updated: 2012-05-13 21:20:58
    : 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 Kronos Quartet : Women's Voices Main May 13, 2012 La Bohème at LA Opera Notes A revival of La Bohème Act IV pictured left , photograph by Robert Millard opened Saturday night in Los Angeles . The performance marked the Los Angeles Opera debut of conductor Patrick Summers , and the orchestra played clearly , with only a slight harshness in the brass at one point in Act II . The chorus sang perfectly well , as was the children's chorus , though the singers may not have been exactly together at all . times Museop Kim moved gracefully as

  • Kronos Quartet: Women's Voices

    Updated: 2012-05-13 06:31:34

  • NCCO plays Grieg, Zwilich, Schoenberg, Heidrich

    Updated: 2012-05-12 06:59:00

  • Trio Appassionato at SFCM

    Updated: 2012-05-08 21:35:00

  • New York Times on Met Live in HD

    Updated: 2012-05-08 21:09:30
    The New York Times, in two very well written articles, discuss the Met Live in HD performances. Their success, their effect on the public and local opera productions. These very [...]

  • Götterdämmerung at the Met (Cycle 2)

    Updated: 2012-05-04 07:00:31
    : 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 2nd Performance of Věc Makropulos at the Met Main May 04, 2012 Götterdämmerung at the Met Cycle 2 Notes The second Ring cycle the Met this season came to a rather disappointing conclusion with Götterdämmerung yesterday . Though there were many fine individual contributions to the piece , in the end both music and staging fell short . Robert Lepage's production was not consistent with the earlier parts of the cycle . Why should Grane finally appear as a horse puppet pictured above , photograph by Ken Howard Metropolitan Opera in this

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