• Operatic Advice and Counsel…A Welcome New Reference Book

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    Vincent Giroud’ valuable new French Opera, a Short History, is in hand and very welcome it is.

  • The Met's New "Traviata"

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/howard-kissel/the-mets-new-traviata_b_803233.html

  • NY Phil/Adès/Hampson, Avery Fisher Hall, New York

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/6d922412-1cdf-11e0-8c86-00144feab49a.html#axzz1B32F4Jxp

  • Pelléas et Mélisande, New York

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    Pelléas et Mélisande, Debussy’ impressionist drama closely based on Maeterlinck’ eerie, symbolist play, is not a terribly vocal opera; it calls more for the subtlety of art song style than the belting of great divas and divos.

  • Taking Gilbert & Sullivan Seriously

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703779704576073913819798464.html

  • Tosca, Metropolitan Opera

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    They have been fiddling with Luc Bondy’ staging of Tosca. Scarpia doesn’ masturbate on the Madonna; he just sort of pinches her erotically.

  • Interview with Eva-Maria Westbroek

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    http://www.opera.co.uk/view-review.php?reviewID=45

  • Mahler: Symphony No. 3.

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    A recent addition to Valery Gergiev’s Mahler cycle with the London Symphony Orchestra, the SACD recording of the Third Symphony has much to recommend.

  • S.F. Opera will honor 9/11 hero Rescorla

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    http://www.sacbee.com/2010/12/26/3278792/sf-opera-will-honor-911-hero-rescorla.html

  • Hansel and Gretel, Royal Opera House, London

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/40f5a2d0-1758-11e0-badd-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1A5Wd4iLB

  • Forgotten Lully opera rediscovered at Versailles

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/michaelwhite/100050093/forgotten-lully-opera-rediscovered-at-versailles-i-wish-i-could-say-it-was-worth-the-trip/

  • Der Rosenkavalier, Vienna

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    http://likelyimpossibilities.blogspot.com/2010/12/der-rosenkavalier-wie-du-warst-wie-du.html

  • Susan Bullock, Wigmore Hall

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    It may have been five years since Susan Bullock last performed at the Wigmore Hall, as her prominence on the world operatic stage has taken her away from the recital hall, but she wasted no time getting into her stride in this charming and musically varied concert.

  • The Magic Flute and La Traviata, New York

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    The dust on 65th Street is clearing up and the reviews for the renovated Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts are in — the piazza is being hailed as newly “inviting” by architects and arts critics alike, and rightly so.

  • King Roger at Bregenz Festival 2009

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    Long-dormant operas sometimes rise to meet a new dawn only to then slink away like the creatures of the night they were doomed to be — seductive but dangerous to approach.

  • Anna Nicole: the opera

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jan/02/anna-nicole-smith-the-opera-turnage-conrad

  • Todd Machover: From Guitar Hero to cybernetic opera

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/12/musical-inventor-the-robotic-set-of-my-opera-emotes.html

  • Mozart at Salzburg Festival: Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    Once a preserve of opulent traditional productions, the summer Salzburg Festival has become a destination for viewing more cutting edge stagings.

  • Muti loomed over city's arts life

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-12-25/entertainment/ct-ae-1226-chicagoan-classical-20101225_1_riccardo-muti-cso-classical-music

  • Franz Liszt: A Romantic remembered

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/classical/features/franz-liszt-a-romantic-remembered-2170152.html

  • Ceclia Bartoli: the limitations of being a mezzo

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/dec/23/cecilia-bartoli-mezzo-soprano

  • A Light in the Forest of This Debussy Work

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703886904576031520757784258.html?mod=WSJ_ArtsEnt_LifestyleArtEnt_4

  • Die Walküre, La Scala, Milan

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/opera/8216886/Die-Walkure-La-Scala-Milan-review.html

  • Paris: ‘aler’or ‘alheur’

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    No one could accuse the Paris Opera of pinching pennies (or Euro cents) in their lavishly expansive (and expensive) staging of Hindemith’ Mathis der Maler.

  • Il Postino: You’ve got mail

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    http://likelyimpossibilities.blogspot.com/2010/12/il-postino-youve-got-mail.html

  • Carmen, I've cracked you

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jan/12/daniel-kramer-carmen

  • Adriana Lecouvreur at Teatro Regio Torino 2009

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    The Royal Opera at Covent Garden just made something of a splash in international opera news with a star-encrusted revival of an opera once quite popular and yet in recent years — Francesco Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur.

  • Owing the World a Tannhäuser

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    http://boulezian.blogspot.com/2010/12/owing-world-tannhauser.html

  • A Citadel of Culture Shows a Friendlier Face

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/01/arts/music/01lincoln.html

  • Ghost Opera & A Chinese Home

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/ghost-opera--a-chinese-home-20110113-19pwy.html

  • Real Strangeness in Imaginary Kingdom

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/20/arts/music/20pelleas.html

  • The Art of the Countertenor

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    Since he first came to notice a few years ago — in Messiah in this very hall, as Creonte at Covent Garden, and as Arsace in Partenope at New York City Opera, to name by a few recently acclaimed performances — many a starry accolade has been heaped upon young Welsh countertenor, Iestyn Davies: “achingly beautiful tone”,“unforgettable focus and poignancy” and “compelling sense of rhetoric” are typical of the bountiful superlatives.

  • Nabucco, Palm Beach Opera

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    Appearing on Palm Beach Opera’ website video player General Director Daniel Biaggi points out among the reasons to attend the first show of the company’ 2010-2011 season, “fantastic artists whose voices will blow you away.”

  • Fidelio, Bavarian State Opera, Munich

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/d0d79eb0-0deb-11e0-86e9-00144feabdc0.html#axzz19KKEN9Vc

  • La Bohème at Covent Garden, 2009

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    The Royal Opera at Covent Garden has hit on a way to revitalize a vintage production — hire a fresh cast of virtually unknown singers.

  • La Fanciulla del West, New York

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    La Fanciulla del West is Puccini’ love letter to an America that had acclaimed him joyously on his triumphant visit of 1907 to attend the Met premieres of Manon Lescaut and Madama Butterfly.

  • 100 Best Verdi from EMI Classics

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    New recordings of classical music don’t appear from the “big labels” very often these days, but those companies have enormous libraries from which to extract selections for compilation discs.

  • Mehta conducts Verdi’ La Forza del Destino on Blu-Ray

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    A recent news report on entertainment technology noted that sales of “regular” DVDs had plummeted in recent years, while the newer Blu-Ray format has seen substantial increases.

  • Music at the Morgan

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:11:01
    http://www.therestisnoise.com/2011/01/music-at-the-morgan.html

  • Stravinsky’s Pulcinella and Adamo’s Harp Concerto, Reviews.

    Updated: 2011-01-31 20:10:47
    Thanks for coming to Stravinsky's Pulcinella this weekend! The great excitement for Stravinsky was matched by the anticipation of Mark Adamo's Four Angels, with Louise Vickerman, our principal harpist, soloing. Here are some of the great reviews from this weekend: Vickerman gave a powerful, impassioned performance on Friday...Vickerman made the harp ...

  • Have you Seen the Opera Alligator?

    Updated: 2011-01-29 01:29:23
    The Scenery and Props departments of Utah Opera have many secrets, but few are as fun as the Utah Opera alligator. Have you seen it on stage before? The alligator works its way into every Opera production, camouflaged into the set, props, and sometimes even costumes! Here's where the alligator showed ...

  • Composer of the Week – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Updated: 2011-01-27 17:25:37
    Happy Birthday to child prodigy, opera genius, and Classical composer-du-jour, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart! Mozart composed more than 600 works in his 30 active years (he didn't start composing until the age of 5.) This number includes 68 symphonic works, 54 concertos, 18 masses, and 23 operas! Mozart was, by all ...

  • The Necessary 100: Here's a fabulous list that goes from Hildegard to Hoagy

    Updated: 2011-01-27 14:17:01
    I received my first list of 100 pieces yesterday, from Toronto violinist, teacher and Toronto Masque Theatre founder, Larry Beckwith. It's not too hard to pick composers, but it's a major challenge to pick individual pieces. Thee are only a couple of composers from Beckwith's list I would not have included. I've bolded those specific pieces that would have been on my list (and I'm adding commentary, text translations and video clips, for the first three). Heeeere's Larry, being perfectly chronological (the commentary is mine): From the lists you've already received, it seems important to make the distinction between personal...

  • Monday’s Visit to the Costume Shop.

    Updated: 2011-01-26 22:09:06
    The Costume Shop is busy building the costumes for our upcoming production of Little Women. Our Costume Designer, Sue, had some great ideas when designing the costumes that we'll share with you in an upcoming video, but in the meantime, here's the first look at one of Jo's dresses.

  • Discovering Douglas Lilburn

    Updated: 2011-01-26 14:54:00
    Mona Seghatoleslami2011 01 26falseCenterfalseThis weekend, the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra will play two compositions by Douglas Lilburn, a twentieth century composer from New Zealand. Lilburn’s orchestral music is expressive and melodic. It has the impassioned yearning, the sense of bittersweet

  • La Traviata at the Met

    Updated: 2011-01-26 05:07:14

  • Four Angels: Concerto for Harp and Orchestra by Mark Adamo

    Updated: 2011-01-25 22:06:28
    We are extremely excited for this weekend's concert, with the Utah Premiere of Mark Adamo's harp concerto, Four Angels. Our own Principal Harpist, Louise Vickerman, will be performing the concerto, and this will make Vickerman only the second harpist to perform the piece. Very exciting, isn't it? If you are looking ...

  • The Witch’s Makeup

    Updated: 2011-01-22 11:55:34
    It takes a lot of makeup to turn a beautiful mezzo-soprano into a witch! Here's a behind the scenes look at the makeup process for our witch in Hansel and Gretel. Want to see the finished product? Come experience the production!

  • The Making of the Witch’s Broom

    Updated: 2011-01-21 18:28:55
    The Utah Symphony Production crew wanted to make a broom that danced along with the witch in Hansel and Gretel. Here's a behind-the-scenes look at how they accomplished it.

  • Hansel and Gretel, Reviews.

    Updated: 2011-01-21 02:27:10
    Our current Utah Opera production of Hansel and Gretel has been charming audiences of all ages! Here's what some of the reviews have said: The orchestra plays an important role in this opera, and Pelto led the Utah Symphony in a nicely balanced performance full of beautiful musical colors. The woodwinds ...

  • Composer of the Week – César Cui

    Updated: 2011-01-20 10:25:29
    Happy Birthday to César Cui who was born January 18, 1835. What? You've never heard of César Cui? That is not so surprising. In the 1850-60's in Russia, there was a renewed interest in Russian nationalism, and this included establishing a Russian school of music that would not be influenced by ...

  • Canadian Opera Company's 2011-2012 Season

    Updated: 2011-01-19 23:20:25
    : The Opera Tattler Subscribe to this blog's feed West Coast Opera Companies Los Angeles Opera Portland Opera San Diego Opera San Francisco Opera Seattle Opera San Francisco Opera's 2011- 2012 Season Main January 19, 2011 Canadian Opera Company's 2011-2012 Season September 22- October 15 2011 : Iphigenia in Tauris September 29- October 22 2011 : Rigoletto January 21- February 25 2012 : Tosca February 2-22 2012 : Love From Afar April 10- May 14 2012 : La Cenerentola April 30- May 29 2012 : A Florentine Tragedy and Gianni Schicchi May 9-26 2012 : Semele Today the new season of the Canadian Opera Company was unveiled . Susan Graham sings Iphigenia in the co-production seen in San Francisco in 2007. Jane Archibald , Allyson McHardy , and William Burden star in Semele Season Official Site 03:20

  • Hansel and Gretel Load-In.

    Updated: 2011-01-18 21:57:09
    It takes some serious work to get an opera set loaded into Capitol Theatre and set up properly. We left a camera in the back of the theatre and made this time-lapse video to show you how the load-in happens. According to Jared, our Technical Director, Hansel and Gretel is one ...

  • San Francisco Opera's 2011- 2012 Season

    Updated: 2011-01-18 19:44:11

  • Il Barbiere at Seattle Opera

    Updated: 2011-01-18 01:50:50

  • Retour de la vie

    Updated: 2011-01-17 14:54:00
    Mona Seghatoleslami2011 01 17falseCenterfalseJim Lange’s back on the radio, and I’m back to really updating Classically Speaking   First up will be a long overdue posting of a interview with Cedille Records founder and president Jim Ginsburg. Then we’ll catch

  • David Daniels at PBO

    Updated: 2011-01-16 08:51:50

  • Yan Pascal Tortelier & Vadim Gluzman at SFS

    Updated: 2011-01-16 00:57:40

  • Opera San José's 2011-2012 Season

    Updated: 2011-01-10 22:41:34

  • Kirill Karabits & Helene Grimaud at SFS

    Updated: 2011-01-09 07:00:31

  • WV Classical Calendar - January 2011

    Updated: 2011-01-04 14:54:00
    Mona Seghatoleslami2011 01 04falseCenterfalseBetter late than never here's a calendar of classical concerts in January in West Virginia. The colleges don't have as many concerts because the semester is just getting going, but there are still a number of nice

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