Topic: OPERA
Next week, the ENO plays host to an unusual rivalry: two brothers, both opera directors, will see their productions run against each other in repertory. Stephen Moss meets the amazing Aldens ...LINK
Sunday, 28 May 2006
Topic: OPERA American Opera said goodbye to its first lady on Saturday, exalting Sarah Caldwell in prayer and song in a tribute fit for a musical giant.
Caldwell, who died March 23 of heart failure at age 82, staged and conducted some 100 performances in more than 30 years as founder-director of the Opera Company of Boston.
She was hailed in a 1975 Time magazine cover story as "the best opera director in the United States."
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Friday, 26 May 2006
Topic: OPERA
On 2 June, Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking opera X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X begins its run of eight performances at Oakland Opera Theatre. Michael Mohammed directs and Deirdre McClure conducts...LINK
Sunday, 14 May 2006
Topic: OPERA
Los Angeles Opera has announced that baritone Renato Bruson will make his company debut as Giorgio Germont in the Opera's season-opening September 2006 performances of La Traviata, replacing Dmitri Hvorostovsky, who has withdrawn from the performances due to scheduling conflicts. ...LINK to complete story
Saturday, 29 April 2006
Topic: OPERA
New York City Opera Reportedly Close to Sealing Deal for New House Near Lincoln Center ...LINK to complete story
Monday, 10 April 2006
Topic: OPERA
Nagano's First Season Could Be Awkward
April 10, 2006
Placido Domingo appears to be double-booked with the Bavarian National and Washington National operas. ...LINK to complete story
Friday, 7 April 2006
Topic: OPERA
Finnish National Opera May Lay Off Entire Staff
Apr 7, 2006
Need to make ends meet could close the company down temporarily
Topic: OPERA
Cleveland Opera & Lyric Opera Cleveland Merge to Form New Professional Company ...LINK to complete story
Thursday, 30 March 2006
Topic: OPERA
The Kirov is playing for very high stakes
Kirov Opera is taking a huge gamble in touring with Wagner's Ring cycle. But the rewards are worth the risk
...LINK to complete story
Friday, 24 March 2006
Topic: OPERA
...LINK to complete storyShortlist for Russia's Annual Golden Mask Competition Annouced; Nine Opera Productions Given Nods
Topic: OPERA
Flatulent cows, ballroom dancing and Nazis - what more could you want in an opera? By Alfred Hickling ...LINK to complete story
Monday, 20 March 2006
Topic: OPERA
AS RECENTLY as 1970, the year before
it moved to its current home at the Kennedy Center, the Washington National Opera (then called the Opera Society of Washington) managed to mount precisely one production. Today, as it celebrates its 50th anniversary, the WNO has evolved into one of the nation's foremost and most dynamic opera companies
...LINK to complete story
Sunday, 19 March 2006
Topic: OPERA
Opera venue Glyndebourne has ventured away from traditional classical works by staging a hip-hop version of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte. ...LINK to complete story
Monday, 13 March 2006
Topic: OPERA
No one would argue that Scott Joplin's opera "Treemonisha" packs the dramatic punch of an opera by Verdi, who truly understood theater. The plot about former slaves who run a plantation abandoned by its white owners is slight, and the opera's message, that education is the key to black advancement, seems disconcertingly naive for an opera dating from 1911. ...LINK to complete story
Topic: OPERA
The Queen opened a new colonnade at the Sydney Opera House on Monday - more than three decades after she formally opened the landmark building.
...LINK to complete story
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American Opera said goodbye to its first lady on Saturday, exalting Sarah Caldwell in prayer and song in a tribute fit for a musical giant.
Caldwell, who died March 23 of heart failure at age 82, staged and conducted some 100 performances in more than 30 years as founder-director of the Opera Company of Boston.
She was hailed in a 1975 Time magazine cover story as "the best opera director in the United States."
