• Basel Chamber Orchestra, Wigmore Hall

    Updated: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    Founded in 1984, the Basel Chamber Orchestra has developed a penchant for programmes which combine the modern and unfamiliar with the traditional and renowned.

  • Nicola Luisotti Named Music Director of Teatro di San Carlo

    Updated: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    February 7, 2012. Italian conductor Nicola Luisotti, the popular music director of the San Francisco Opera, has been appointed to the same position at the historic Teatro di San Carlo in Naples.

  • Otello in Zürich

    Updated: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    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.

  • The Bostridge Project: ‘ncient and Modern’

    Updated: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    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.

  • Liceo Opera in Financial Crisis

    Updated: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/barcelonas_lice.php

  • Verdi: La Forza Del Destino

    Updated: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    http://astore.amazon.com/operatoday-20/detail/B005OV1MX4

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

    Updated: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    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: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    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.

  • Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

    Updated: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    Released in 2011, this disc reproduces a performance of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde that was recorded on 10 November 1989 at the Grzegorz Fitelberg Concert Hall, Katowice [Poland].

  • Jonathan Harvey’ Wagner Dream

    Updated: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    British composer Jonathan Harvey’s Wagner Dream came to London four years after its premieres at the Holland Festival and in Luxembourg.

  • Stravinsky: The Rake’ Progress (Glyndebourne)

    Updated: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    http://astore.amazon.com/operatoday-20/detail/B005THVWQU

  • Barcelona’s Liceo Opera in Financial Crisis

    Updated: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    Confronting a financial shortfall, the Gran Theatro del Liceo in Barcelona has announced a reduction in performances this season with two scheduled operas cancelled.

  • Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Royal Opera House

    Updated: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    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.

  • Beverly Sills Artist Award Goes to Angela Meade

    Updated: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/01/angela_meade_wi.php

  • SFO Faces Deficit

    Updated: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/san_francisco_o.php

  • Vienna State Opera Keeps It’ Team

    Updated: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/01/vienna_state_op.php

  • San Francisco Opera — Bad News Tempered by Good

    Updated: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    February 4, 2012. With a budget of $71 million dollars, the San Francisco Opera announced a deficit for the FY 2011 year. But the numbers, in the Opera’s press release, contain some good news to offset the negative bottom line.

  • A Noteworthy Ariadne auf Naxos, Chicago

    Updated: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    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.

  • The Enchanted Island, Metropolitan Opera

    Updated: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    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.

  • Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at Lyric Opera of Chicago

    Updated: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    Lyric Opera of Chicago’s recent revival of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte offered a production with vocal pairs carefully matched and dramatic representation expressing the varying shades of Mozart’s score.

  • Strauss: Salome

    Updated: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    http://astore.amazon.com/operatoday-20/detail/B003LRQ0ZS

  • Rienzi, OONY

    Updated: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    For the first hour or so of the latest Opera Orchestra of New York venture, a concert performance of Wagner’ Rienzi, I often said to myself, This…isn’ so terrible.

  • Emmerich Smola Prize Awarded

    Updated: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/the_smola_prize.php

  • Bayreuth Festspielhaus

    Updated: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    In an interview, Katharina Wagner, 33, granddaughter of the composer and co-director of the Richard Wagner Bayreuth Festival, spoke of the declining state of the legendary Festival House on the “Green Hill” at Bayreuth.

  • Salome, San Diego

    Updated: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    The San Diego Opera Company opened its 47th season on Saturday, January 26th with Richard Strauss’ Salome, a work that has something in it for everyone: lust, love, lasciviousness, homosexuality, heterosexuality, homicide, suicide, a voluptuous dance and quickie nudity.

  • Leoncavallo’ I Medici

    Updated: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    Ruggero Leoncavallo’s name is forever tied to that of Pietro Mascagni.

  • Così fan tutte, Royal Opera

    Updated: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    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: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    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’.

  • Houston Here: Lend Me a Tenor

    Updated: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/chad_shelton_co.php

  • La Bohème in Toulon, Marseille and Genoa

    Updated: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    Three La Bohèmes in ten days, a critic’s nightmare that was more fun than a barrel of monkeys.

  • Teatro di San Carlo Appoints Luisotti

    Updated: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/nicola_luisotti.php

  • Prégardien at the Wigmore Hall

    Updated: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    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: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    http://astore.amazon.com/operatoday-20/detail/B005UOK9HA

  • Le Roi et le Fermier

    Updated: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    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.

  • L’Enfant et les Sortilèges and La Navarraise in Monte-Carlo

    Updated: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    The magic was in the pit, not that all Monaco was not magical — on January 25 a yellow Lamborghini, a red Ferrari, a vintage Jaguar among other magnificent machines stood before the entrance to Monte-Carlo’s resplendent Casino cum transplendent 500-seat opera house.

  • Bayreuth’s Festspielhaus Needs Repairs

    Updated: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/bayreuth_festsp.php

  • An Aria of Lincoln Center — The Metropolitan Opera

    Updated: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    To the dismay of New York opera fans, the original Metropolitan Opera House, located at Broadway and 39th Street, was to be torn down and replaced by a new hall a mere 30 blocks away.

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

    Updated: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    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: 2012-02-08 15:56:14
    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.

  • Casting Change for the Met's Götterdämmerung

    Updated: 2012-02-07 18:50:58

  • Operatini: Puccini Martini Blast

    Updated: 2012-02-06 19:24:38
    Puccini Martini Blast Join the cast of La bohème and Master Mixologist Pat Carden from Chandlers Steakhouse, while singers sing and [...]

  • Luisotti appointed Music Director of Teatro di San Carlo

    Updated: 2012-02-06 13:47:57

  • Alexander String Quartet's 30th Anniversary

    Updated: 2012-02-05 17:07:34

  • Ensemble Parallèle's Great Gatsby Rehearsal

    Updated: 2012-02-05 02:12:11

  • SF Opera Audited Financial Results 2010-2011

    Updated: 2012-02-03 19:16:28

  • Peek at Next Season’s Brochure.

    Updated: 2012-02-02 01:03:07
    Right now is a super busy time for us - the next Utah Opera season was announced on Monday, Utah Symphony season will be announced this coming Monday the 6th, and Deer Valley will be announced Thursday the 9th! Soon we'll be sending out information on renewing your season tickets, ...

  • 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 10 013: Show BoatJanuary 25- February 10 013  April 18- May 5 2013: Tristan und Isolde April 6- May 11 013: Il Trovatore Details on the Season | Official Site</div

  • 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?

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