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| News Flash: James Levine withdraws from Tanglewood season |
| 2008-07-08 14:50:26 |
James Levine, who celebrated his 65th birthday on June 23, announced on Tuesday that he will have to withdraw from the Tanglewood season because of urgent surgery. The Boston Symphony (and Metropolitan Opera) music director will have a kidney removed, “as a curative measure, with no other treatment necessary and with every expectation for a [...]...
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| This opera is like Are You Being Served, on acid |
| 2008-07-07 06:23:49 |
When composer Brian Irvine wanted to set an opera in a venue where young people gathered what did he come up with? Forget cinemas, concert halls or nightclubs. He tells Victoria Richards all about his new opera based in a call centre
IT’S not your average setting for an opera – a call centre manned by [...]...
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| Peter Grimes on What’s Opera Doc - 10:45PM EST |
| 2008-06-26 07:32:34 |
Today June 26th, 2006 on What’s Opera Doc 10:45 PM EST
BRITTEN: Peter Grimes
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Peter Grimes); Felicity Lott (Ellen Orford); Thomas Allen (Captain Balstrode); Patricia Payne (Auntie); Maria Bovino (Niece 1); Gillian Webster (Niece 2); Stuart Kale (Bob Boles); Stafford Dean (Swallow); Sarah Walker (Mrs. Sedley); Neil Jenkins (Rev. Horace Adams); Simon Keenleyside (Ned [...]...
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| Long-lost Vivaldi opera to play in Prague after 278-year hiatus |
| 2008-05-01 06:23:15 |
PRAGUE (AFP) - After a 278-year hiatus, a long-lost opera by the Italian Baroque master Antonio Vivaldi will be performed in Prague Saturday in a tour de force for a young Czech conductor with a detective’s nose.
“Argippo”, a two-hour drama about a young princess smitten with a dishonest suitor, was scouted out nearly a [...]...
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| Wainwright to write opera |
| 2008-04-29 04:41:58 |
Rufus Wainwright is working on a full-scale opera, after coming off an extensive tour performing songs from Judy Garland’s repertoire.
“I’ve wanted to write an opera since I was about 14 years old. But I couldn’t find a story that I could wrap my head around,” Wainwright said.
“The construct of the diva, from Maria Callas to [...]...
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| Counting a Tenor’s High C’s in ‘Fille du Régiment’ at the Metropolitan |
| 2008-04-23 05:34:05 |
Comedy works best, one theory goes, when the people in it don’t know they are being funny. Another school favors a more Marxian (Groucho, not Karl) approach, in which the reasonable turns into the improbable, and the improbable into the outrageous. The Metropolitan Opera’s visually drab but industriously comic new production of Donizetti’s “Fille [...]...
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| More naked opera news |
| 2008-04-12 07:33:56 |
because apparently naked = innovative.
A new Ballo in Maschera in Ehrfurt, Germany takes opera to a new low by incorporating nudity, and pointless offensive references to bashing the USA and Hitler.
A German opera house is to unveil a provocative new production staged in
the ruins of New York’s World Trade Centre.
It features naked [...]...
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| Opera and Society conference at BU |
| 2008-04-12 06:30:14 |
I am very pleased to announce an interdisciplinary opera conference entitled “Opera and Society” to be held at Boston University on April 18-19 in the Marshall Room of the BU School of Music. The conference will include eminent scholars from the US and Europe in musicology, music theory, history, and theater, in addition to [...]...
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| How about Lortzing - Der Wildschutz Wed. on Whats Opera Doc - 4PM EST |
| 2008-04-07 15:57:49 |
What’s Opera Doc will move its timeslot on Wed just this once (I’m interviewing Steven Mercurio and Lotfi Mansouri at 10AM for La Rondine on Sunday on WRCJ)
So now WOD will be presenting Der Wildschutz by Lortzing this Wed April 9th at 4PM EST -500GMT
This 1964 recording features
Hermann Prey
Gisela Litz
Fritz Wunderlich
Anneliese Rothenberger
The Bavarian State [...]...
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| The joys of live radio …yesterdays Sonnambula broadcast |
| 2008-04-07 07:17:27 |
Where to start?
Bellini’s La Sonnambula is a rarely performed opera, so I was overjoyed to be able to bring it to the Metro Detroit area (and globally over the Internet) yesterday.
For those of you who are new to What’s Opera Doc?, in real life I am a part-time host on FM radio in [...]...
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| Wagner on the Road to Tristan |
| 2008-04-06 05:12:25 |
The Washington National Wagner Society
Darryl Winston, Artistic Director
Presents Wagner on the Road to Tristan
A Musical Journey with pianist-lecturer
Dr. Stephen Brown, DMA
The Catholic University of America
and Cynthia Ballentine, mezzo-soprano
performing “The Wesendonck Lieder”
plus
Selected additional arias performed by
Marje Palmieri
Bolormaa Jugdersuren
Richard Gabriel
David Simons
Sunday, April 27, 2008
2 PM
The Universalist National Memorial Church
1810 16th Street, NW (16th and S Streets)
Tickets $15.00
For [...]...
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| Conductor does double duty as tenor loses voice |
| 2008-04-03 06:05:29 |
Ed Note - Just the thought of this made my explode
Desperate times led to a remarkable solution in Verdi’s “Aida” at the Benedum Center last night: The conductor stepped in to sing for an ailing tenor.
That would be amazing enough, except that Antony Walker, the Pittsburgh Opera’s music director, didn’t leave the podium. In a [...]...
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| Researchers Play Tune Recorded Before Edison |
| 2008-03-27 04:38:01 |
Researchers Play Tune Recorded Before Edison
By
By JODY ROSEN
For more than a century, since he captured the spoken words “Mary had a little lamb” on a sheet of tinfoil, Thomas Edison has been considered the father of recorded sound. But researchers say they have unearthed a recording of the human voice, made by a little-known Frenchman, [...]...
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| Can you tell the difference? |
| 2008-03-25 18:08:56 |
I have to tip the proverbial Wagnerian horns in the direction of YPS! who first sent me this contest:
http://mp3ornot.com/
Opera fans, can you tell which one is higher quality?...
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| Dicapo Opera’s next season |
| 2008-03-24 06:45:02 |
Michael Capasso’s announcement of Dicapo Opera’s next season is impressive, to say the least: seven new productions, including one world and two US premieres, plus a commission.
- “Lily,” with music by Kurt Weill - world premiere of the “monodrama”
- Janácek’s “Šárka” – first US performance
- Honegger’s “La mort de Sainte Alméenne” – first US performance [...]...
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| Czech harpsichordist finds Vivaldi’s lost opera |
| 2008-03-16 19:24:44 |
Czech harpsichordist and conductor Ondrej Macek from Cesky Krumlov chateau has found a substantial part of Vivaldi’s opera Argippo in Bavaria and he is preparing its modern world premiere at Prague Castle on May 3, he told journalists today.
The opera was performed for the first time in 1730 in Prague for which Antonio Vivaldi composed [...]...
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| and now…a word from our sponsor… |
| 2008-03-13 06:27:09 |
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Featuring vocalists, Ursula Walker, Sunny Wilkinson, Naima [...]...
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| Is it that government subsidy, methinks? |
| 2008-03-12 08:14:18 |
New news in opera-land: see below.
I keep wondering if American composers would write more operas/symphonies/your fave work here if we had a smidge of the type of gov’t subsidy for the arts that other countries have?
Maybe we just all want to stay focused on American Idol - oh yeah right - thats the show where [...]...
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| Today In Opera History - Artists Events |
| 2008-03-06 05:56:48 |
Today we can celebrate the birthdays of:
Julius Rudel (1921)
Lorin Maazel (1930)
Kiri Te Kanawa (1944)
Gina Cigna (1900-2001)
Oscar Straus (1870-1954)
Sarah Caldwell (1924-2006)
Norman Treigle (1927-1975)
Kiril Kondrashin (1914-1991)
Also, Bellini’s “La Sonamula,” and Verdi’s “La Traviata” premiered
on this date in 1831 and 1853, respectively.
Let us remember the following artists who passed away on this date:
Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967)
Richard Hageman (1882-1966)
Cathy Berberian [...]...
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| Opera has lost a legend - RIP Signore Giuseppe Di Stefano |
| 2008-03-05 05:47:03 |
Opera’s di Stefano dies aged 86
One of the greatest tenors of the 20th Century, Giuseppe di Stefano, has died at his home near the Italian city of Milan at the age of 86.
Sicilian-born di Stefano was famed for his powerful voice and his duets with the late Maria Callas.
He was best known for his roles [...]...
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