http://www.operatoday.com/ en-us gary@operatoday.com 2012-02-10T10:00:51-06:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/xb8nP6xFHxY/dido_and_aeneas.php Winnipeg music lovers were willingly transported back several centuries as Daniel Taylor and Montreal-based Theatre of Early Music graced Westminster United Church with a program of infrequently heard music. 5888@http://www.operatoday.com/ Performances 2012-02-10T10:00:51-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/dido_and_aeneas.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/8SM9OoWQAdA/il_nuovo_teatro.php http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/opera_in_floren.php 5887@http://www.operatoday.com/ News 2012-02-10T09:26:58-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/il_nuovo_teatro.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/i1_kAIJjP5A/opera_in_floren.php Who says Italian opera is in the doldrums? Contrary to all the recent budget bad news from the country that invented the form, the dramatic new 150 million Euro ($200 million) opera house in Florence projects another view. 5886@http://www.operatoday.com/ Commentary 2012-02-10T09:10:20-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/opera_in_floren.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/ES4I1vAORUY/alagna_changing.php http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/another_tenor_d.php 5885@http://www.operatoday.com/ News 2012-02-09T09:04:19-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/alagna_changing.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/1Qfho1Hvgd4/another_tenor_d.php In today’s edition of the Viennese newspaper, “Die Presse” a reviewer gushes over Roberto Alagna’s recital yesterday evening at the Vienna State Opera. 5884@http://www.operatoday.com/ Commentary 2012-02-09T08:44:27-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/another_tenor_d.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/YTuBvEzCces/gustav_mahler_d.php Recorded on 14 June 1964 at the Großer Saal of the Musikverein, Vienna, as part of the Wiener Festwochen, this legendary performance of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde was released in 2011 on Deutsche Grammophon. 5881@http://www.operatoday.com/ Recordings 2012-02-08T13:17:00-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/gustav_mahler_d.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/0003Z0Zz710/il_trittico_in_.php All the important directors pass through Lyon, so it was just a matter of time before British director David Pountney would be invited to stage a production. It was Puccini’s triptych. 5878@http://www.operatoday.com/ Reviews 2012-02-08T13:00:00-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/il_trittico_in_.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/_6vdjYYgqcM/dvorak_-_the_ja.php In advance of the new Rusalka at the Royal Opera House, the Barbican and the BBC Symphony Orchestra brought an electrifying performance of Dvořák's The Jacobin to London. 5875@http://www.operatoday.com/ Reviews 2012-02-08T12:31:00-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/dvorak_-_the_ja.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/ySr0Q0IdKg0/gustav_mahler_s.php If Mahler’s Fourth Symphony is arguably one of his more familiar pieces, live performances of the work can vary depending on the abilities of the performers to meet the various challenges of the piece. 5870@http://www.operatoday.com/ Recordings 2012-02-08T12:21:00-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/gustav_mahler_s.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/u99vdJy7i6Q/der_rosenkavali.php 5877@http://www.operatoday.com/ Performances 2012-02-08T11:20:00-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/der_rosenkavali.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/rmdvwGI5s8M/weill_die_siebe.php I failed to discern any rationale behind programming the Brecht-Weill ballet chanté with various works by Debussy, one orchestrated by Robin Holloway. 5876@http://www.operatoday.com/ Performances 2012-02-08T10:44:53-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/weill_die_siebe.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/CpZoPluO3KQ/orchestre_philh.php http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/lawrence_foster.php 5883@http://www.operatoday.com/ News 2012-02-08T10:33:45-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/orchestre_philh.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/NEDX3BV3Fio/lawrence_foster.php February 8, 2012. Los Angeles born conductor Lawrence Foster, the music director of the orchestra and the Opéra National in the French city of Montpellier from September 2009 to the end of this season, has signed on for a similar post with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille starting September 1 of this year. 5882@http://www.operatoday.com/ Commentary 2012-02-08T10:22:27-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/lawrence_foster.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/7Snquxe24v0/teatro_di_san_c.php http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/nicola_luisotti.php 5880@http://www.operatoday.com/ News 2012-02-07T08:39:16-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/teatro_di_san_c.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/unCSd5ULpYI/nicola_luisotti.php 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. 5879@http://www.operatoday.com/ Commentary 2012-02-07T08:22:55-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/nicola_luisotti.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/2FzuEsP1-Co/lenfant_et_les_.php 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. 5858@http://www.operatoday.com/ Performances 2012-02-06T10:15:00-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/lenfant_et_les_.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/MipFt3cEoiw/chad_shelton_co.php February 4, 2012. A few days before the opening of the production of Verdi’s “La Traviata” at the Houston Grand Opera, tenor David Lomeli, playing Alfredo, took ill. 5874@http://www.operatoday.com/ Commentary 2012-02-04T23:59:59-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/chad_shelton_co.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/B2ca74aYRJY/houston_here_le.php http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/chad_shelton_co.php 5873@http://www.operatoday.com/ News 2012-02-04T23:59:58-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/houston_here_le.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/SrDK-IlCGJE/sfo_faces_defic.php http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/san_francisco_o.php 5872@http://www.operatoday.com/ News 2012-02-04T16:18:10-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/sfo_faces_defic.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/NynL2bjwNdw/san_francisco_o.php 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. 5871@http://www.operatoday.com/ Commentary 2012-02-04T16:09:40-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/san_francisco_o.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/5Q1SZark9h0/werner_gura_-_s.php Each year, the Wigmore Hall commemorates Franz Schubert’s birthday with a high profile recital. This year, Werner Güra and Roger Vignoles presented a recital which was a timely reminder of what Lieder performance should be. 5859@http://www.operatoday.com/ Reviews 2012-02-03T10:24:00-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/werner_gura_-_s.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/0Yn_iBd0PrA/an_aria_of_linc.php 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. 5869@http://www.operatoday.com/ Commentary 2012-02-03T09:14:08-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/an_aria_of_linc.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/G-WC8-zIVKQ/salome_san_dieg.php 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. 5868@http://www.operatoday.com/ Performances 2012-02-02T20:37:59-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/salome_san_dieg.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/YTuBvEzCces/gustav_mahler_d.php 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]. 5857@http://www.operatoday.com/ Recordings 2012-02-02T17:15:00-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/gustav_mahler_d.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/KSQTwkcATQ4/mozarts_die_zau.php 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. 5867@http://www.operatoday.com/ Performances 2012-02-02T16:51:09-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/mozarts_die_zau.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/XT_UI11qJzY/wagner_dream_-_.php British composer Jonathan Harvey’s Wagner Dream came to London four years after its premieres at the Holland Festival and in Luxembourg. 5855@http://www.operatoday.com/ Performances 2012-02-02T16:40:00-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/wagner_dream_-_.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/eOt7q4MkNfk/liceo_opera_in_.php http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/barcelonas_lice.php 5866@http://www.operatoday.com/ News 2012-02-02T16:09:19-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/liceo_opera_in_.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/VaIQr3LDP_k/barcelonas_lice.php Confronting a financial shortfall, the Gran Theatro del Liceo in Barcelona has announced a reduction in performances this season with two scheduled operas cancelled. 5865@http://www.operatoday.com/ Commentary 2012-02-02T15:54:56-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/barcelonas_lice.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/G8SfcQJzVgg/bayreuth_festsp.php 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. 5861@http://www.operatoday.com/ Commentary 2012-02-02T14:44:21-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/bayreuth_festsp.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/1ZYCzkYT078/bayreuths_fests.php http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/bayreuth_festsp.php 5860@http://www.operatoday.com/ News 2012-02-02T14:40:44-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/bayreuths_fests.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/H3oktMo_UP0/emmerich_smola_.php http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/the_smola_prize.php 5856@http://www.operatoday.com/ News 2012-02-01T16:49:03-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/emmerich_smola_.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/kwmpBH-_cPg/the_smola_prize.php A Swiss soprano and an Australian baritone shared the 20,000 Euro Emmerich Smola Prize awarded on Monday. 5862@http://www.operatoday.com/ Commentary 2012-02-01T15:14:11-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/02/the_smola_prize.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/Ukz43Nucz48/beverly_sills_a.php http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/01/angela_meade_wi.php 5864@http://www.operatoday.com/ News 2012-01-31T15:41:06-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/01/beverly_sills_a.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/KLcg8_wtoC4/angela_meade_wi.php The seventh annual Beverly Sills Artist Award, carrying with it a $50,000 prize, was awarded to American soprano Angela Meade. 5863@http://www.operatoday.com/ Commentary 2012-01-31T15:31:09-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/01/angela_meade_wi.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/JiekVQRu6Ac/rienzi_oony.php 5854@http://www.operatoday.com/ Performances 2012-01-31T14:59:26-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/01/rienzi_oony.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/Dk0ErWQ8OXw/cosi_fan_tutte_.php 5853@http://www.operatoday.com/ Performances 2012-01-31T13:46:27-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/01/cosi_fan_tutte_.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/3HG-N7dARlQ/le_roi_et_le_fe.php 5852@http://www.operatoday.com/ Performances 2012-01-31T09:38:22-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/01/le_roi_et_le_fe.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/wFy_yuTc330/vienna_state_op.php Jan. 31, 2012. The recent announcement of the extension of the contract for Dominique Meyer, the General Director of the Vienna State Opera was a firm endorsement of his leadership by the Austrian government. Meyer, 57, the first French person to hold the office, will continue now through August 31, 2020. 5851@http://www.operatoday.com/ Commentary 2012-01-31T09:25:00-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/01/vienna_state_op.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/PQkb0k928Xg/dominique_meyer.php http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/01/vienna_state_op.php 5850@http://www.operatoday.com/ News 2012-01-31T08:49:50-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/01/dominique_meyer.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/D1rNBBj5Gcc/don_giovanni_ro.php 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’. 5849@http://www.operatoday.com/ Performances 2012-01-27T14:31:37-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/01/don_giovanni_ro.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/xQjcT2Dla1I/basel_chamber_o.php Founded in 1984, the Basel Chamber Orchestra has developed a penchant for programmes which combine the modern and unfamiliar with the traditional and renowned. 5848@http://www.operatoday.com/ Performances 2012-01-27T13:56:02-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/01/basel_chamber_o.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/8gC6AZ-M2ec/la_boheme_in_to.php Three La Bohèmes in ten days, a critic’s nightmare that was more fun than a barrel of monkeys. 5847@http://www.operatoday.com/ Performances 2012-01-27T12:39:00-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/01/la_boheme_in_to.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/LQ01L23-pas/the_enchanted_i.php 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. 5846@http://www.operatoday.com/ Performances 2012-01-25T12:07:20-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/01/the_enchanted_i.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/XNRpmSQEjDw/haydns_the_seas.php This buoyant, refreshing performance of Haydn’s late oratorio, The Seasons, by Paul McCreesh’s superb Gabrieli Consort and Players conjured a calendric kaleidoscope of seasonal climes, from the warm bucolic breezes of spring to summer’s fierce suns and flashing storms, from autumnal harvests and hunts to the frozen mists and fiery hearth-sides of winter. 5845@http://www.operatoday.com/ Performances 2012-01-25T11:48:39-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/01/haydns_the_seas.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/-SBNAejJr9Q/charpentier_and.php 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. 5844@http://www.operatoday.com/ Performances 2012-01-25T11:04:18-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/01/charpentier_and.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/uYI9cMFjhHs/otello_in_zuric.php 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. 5840@http://www.operatoday.com/ Reviews 2012-01-25T10:40:00-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/01/otello_in_zuric.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/wWD81uazjxI/interview_with_.php Lise Lindstrom, who made a notable splash in the opera world (debuts at La Scala and at the Met) with her portrayals of Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot, has recently undertaken the still more demanding role of Salome. 5843@http://www.operatoday.com/ Interviews 2012-01-25T09:38:00-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/01/interview_with_.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/4ihtmlpj0J8/surprise_at_the.php 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. 5839@http://www.operatoday.com/ Performances 2012-01-25T07:16:21-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/01/surprise_at_the.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/NvXraelHqpk/a_noteworthy_ar.php 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. 5841@http://www.operatoday.com/ Performances 2012-01-23T11:52:28-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/01/a_noteworthy_ar.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/zTjfMvWdyEA/five_boroughs_s.php What does it say about New York that, in the songs of the city commissioned by the Five Boroughs Music Festival and given performances in Brooklyn, Queens and, now, Manhattan, the poets (often the composers themselves) rarely refer to life in that central part of the city, Rodgers and Hart’s “isle of joy”? 5842@http://www.operatoday.com/ Performances 2012-01-23T11:12:51-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/01/five_boroughs_s.php