• Record Attendance at Salzburg

    Updated: 2012-10-31 20:32:26
    http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/09/new_attendance_.php

  • Good News for Opera in Barcelona

    Updated: 2012-10-31 20:32:26
    The recently released numbers for the past season at Barcelona’s opera Liceu gives some hope for the future.

  • The Singer’ Appetite!

    Updated: 2012-10-31 20:32:26
    http://thesingersappetite.com/

  • Rigoletto in San Francisco

    Updated: 2012-10-31 20:32:26
    Four Rigolettos in nine days (for this critic), of twelve Rigolettos in 24 days (are these world records?).

  • Lohengrin in San Francisco

    Updated: 2012-10-31 20:32:26
    Exquisite pianissimos, sumptuous climaxes, gigantic fortes, insistent horns, sugary winds, tremulous brass, blasting trumpets, whispering strings, pulsating oboes, more gigantic fortes, even more sumptuous climaxes.

  • La bohème at the Salzburg Festival

    Updated: 2012-10-31 20:32:26
    It is difficult to speak with excessive enthusiasm of the programming of a Salzburg Festival that included both Carmen and La bohème, though it would subsequently be redeemed in part by a staging of Die Soldaten.

  • Lucia di Lammermoor at Arizona Opera

    Updated: 2012-10-31 20:32:26
    The role of Lucia in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor was written for Fanny Tacchinardi Persiani who lived from 1812 to 1867.

  • Exciting Glyndebourne 2013 season

    Updated: 2012-10-31 20:32:26
    Exciting developments at Glyndebourne ! Many new initiatives which could transform Glyndebourne from a summer festival to a truly international, year-round opera experience.

  • Parsifal bears its own Cross

    Updated: 2012-10-31 20:32:26
    Parsifal, with its heavy dose of religiosity and strains of racial supremacy, remains at once the most mystical and historically burdened of Wagner’s operas.

  • Handel Jephtha, Welsh National Opera

    Updated: 2012-10-31 20:32:26
    Welsh National Opera have revived Katie Mitchell’s 2003 production of Handel’s Jephtha, with Robert Murray in the title role and a new focus for the drama.

  • “Ich kann mir keine deutschen Sätze merken”

    Updated: 2012-10-31 20:32:26
    http://www.welt.de/kultur/musik/article108680314/Ich-kann-mir-keine-deutschen-Saetze-merken.html

  • New Attendance Record for Salzburg

    Updated: 2012-10-31 20:32:26
    A record 278,978 people attended events of the 2012 edition of the famed Salzburg Festival in Austria, the largest number since its founding 92 years ago.

  • Don Giovanni, LA Opera

    Updated: 2012-10-31 20:32:26
    In our era of minimal cultural restraints Don Giovanni has been the opera of choice for presenting dissolution on stage. Rape, oral sex, drug use and urination have been portrayed to Mozart's melodies.

  • Debussy at 150: The Impressions Still Deceive

    Updated: 2012-10-31 20:32:26
    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/arts/music/debussys-150th-birthday-gets-little-notice.html?_r=1&ref=music

  • Don Giovanni at ENO

    Updated: 2012-10-31 20:32:26
    Some especially puerile, needlessly irritating, marketing, involving pictures of condom packets — oddly chosen in so many ways, since few people find contraceptive especially erotic, and Don Giovanni would seem an unlikely candidate to have employed them — had attended the run-up to this revival of Rufus Norris’s production of Don Giovanni.

  • Moby Dick in San Francisco

    Updated: 2012-10-31 20:32:26
    Forget Herman Melville, forget struggling with deep human complexities. At least those that possessed nineteenth century Americans.

  • Mahler: Symphony no. 3 / Kindertotenlieder

    Updated: 2012-10-31 20:32:26
    Michael Tilson Thomas’s recording of Mahler’s Third Symphony is an outstanding contribution to the composer’s discography.

  • Glyndebourne 2013

    Updated: 2012-10-31 20:32:26
    http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/10/exciting_glynde.php

  • James MacMillan’s “Since it was the day of Preparation…” Premieres at Edinburgh International Festival

    Updated: 2012-10-31 20:32:26
    It was fitting that in this Year of Creative Scotland, the Edinburgh International Festival should honour James MacMillan’s contribution to Scottish musical life with the premiere of a new work.

  • I Due Foscari, LA Opera

    Updated: 2012-10-31 20:32:26
    Lucky Angeleno opera lovers! In anticipation of the Giuseppe Verdi’s bicentennial (it will occur in 2013) Los Angeles Opera treated its patrons to a unique and musically thrilling performance of I Due Foscari, the sixth of the composer’s twenty-six operas.

  • Mozart and Salieri — Young Artists at the Royal Opera House

    Updated: 2012-10-31 20:32:26
    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’ opera Mozart and Salieri (1897) received its first ever performance at the Royal Opera House as the highlight of Meet The Young Artists Week at the Linbury Studio Theatre.

  • Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro 2012

    Updated: 2012-10-31 20:32:26
    Ciro in Babilonia Matilda di Shaban and Il signor Bruschino in Rossini land.

  • Pina Bausch's "...como el musguito..."

    Updated: 2012-10-31 07:18:52

  • Caitlyn Valovick Moore, Flute and Piccolo – Musician Highlight

    Updated: 2012-10-29 16:34:35
    Meet Caitlyn, who is one of the few symphony musicians who is required to play two instruments! What concerto did you audition with? Vivaldi’s Concerto for Piccolo in C Major, RV 443.  It’s on every piccolo audition. What is your favorite restaurant in SLC? There are several I really enjoy: Copper Onion, Vinto, and Pago [...]

  • Einstein on the Beach

    Updated: 2012-10-27 15:58:16
    : 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 SF Opera's Lohengrin Main October 27, 2012 Einstein on the Beach Notes Cal Performances presented the West Coast premiere of Einstein on the Beach Act I Scene 2 pictured left , photograph by Cristina Caccone last night in Berkeley . This collaboration between director Robert Wilson and composer Philip Glass , first performed on July 25, 1976 at the Festival d'Avignon , feels like a product of its time . This is noticeable in the cut of the costumes and certain aspects of the scenic design . Nonetheless , the monumental opera , which

  • Otello in HD

    Updated: 2012-10-24 14:54:00
    Larry Stickler. Professor of Music, Marshall University 2012-10-24 false Otello at the Met Center false The Moor Otello, new governor of Cyprus, sails through a severe storm at sea to arrive safely back home on the island of Cyprus and to reunite with his noble wife Desde

  • Barbara Scowcroft, Violin – Musician Highlight

    Updated: 2012-10-22 18:09:29
    Here’s another one of our first violins! What concerto did you audition with? Mozart #4 and Saint-Saens #3 What is your favorite restaurant in SLC? Rawtopia and Sage’s Cafe How many years have you been playing your instrument? Since 3rd grade in public elementary school in Riverside, Connecticut. What other instruments do you play? I [...]

  • MET HD: Otello this Saturday

    Updated: 2012-10-22 14:54:00
    Jim Lange 2012-10-22 false Renée Fleming (Desdemona) ©Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera Center false WHAT:  Verdi’s Otello MET HD broadcasts   WHEN:   October 27, 2012 , 12:55 pm ET  ( U.S. Encore: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 6:30 pm local time)   W

  • SF Opera's Lohengrin

    Updated: 2012-10-21 21:56:07

  • Oct 19, 12345

    Updated: 2012-10-19 08:00:09
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  • Opera Parallèle's 2012-2013 Season

    Updated: 2012-10-15 07:56:27

  • SF Opera's Moby-Dick

    Updated: 2012-10-11 07:01:00

  • Judd Sheranian, Violin – Musician Highlight

    Updated: 2012-10-08 17:38:20
    Excited to introduce one of our violinists who you might not be familiar with yet! What concerto did you audition with? Brahms What is your favorite restaurant in SLC? Mazza How many years have you been playing your instrument? 53 What other instruments do you play? I sing.  I have a DMA in vocal performance. [...]

  • Life in Similar Motion

    Updated: 2012-10-05 14:54:00
    Jim Lange 2012-10-05 false Philip Glass. Center false We talk too much. Write too much. Think too much. We should be listening. All the time. The listening should never stop. false eighth blackbird's latest release is called "meanwhile.

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