http://www.operatoday.com/ en-us gary@operatoday.com 2009-07-04T12:47:14-06:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/VdltXZ00Cqk/the_ravenna_fes.php Ravenna once served as the capital of the Roman Empire in the 5th and 6th centuries C.E. 4470@http://www.operatoday.com/ Reviews 2009-07-04T12:47:14-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/07/the_ravenna_fes.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/dqMWpk3z0oE/porgy_and_bess_.php For Americans of older generations Porgy and Bess is surely a primal experience, formed by the 1959 Otto Preminger film with Sammy Davis Jr. as Sportin’ Life, the audio recording derived from the 1952 London production with Leontyne Price as Bess, and a first encounter with Porgy and Bess as an opera in the artistically satisfying, and well traveled 1976 Houston production (was it twenty-five performances in the War Memorial Opera House?). 4469@http://www.operatoday.com/ Reviews 2009-07-03T11:04:19-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/07/porgy_and_bess_.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/8cB5gl_O_zk/summer_nights_w.php The success of Opera Theatre of St. Louis’ 2009 festival season reflects the intelligent leadership of both the previous triumvirate (Charles MacKay, Colin Graham, and Stephen Lord) and the new recruits Timothy O’Leary and James Robinson. 4468@http://www.operatoday.com/ Reviews 2009-07-03T09:33:40-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/07/summer_nights_w.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/HKK0NZ0remM/carmen_triumphs.php 4467@http://www.operatoday.com/ Reviews 2009-07-02T07:54:03-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/07/carmen_triumphs.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/bp1-wYAyo78/antonio_pappano.php It’s not often that the accompanist is given top billing in a vocal recital, even when he’s the venue’s musical director. 4465@http://www.operatoday.com/ Reviews 2009-06-29T11:16:56-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/antonio_pappano.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/31n27fDVL8Y/dalibor_jenis_s.php “Everything in opera comes from Italy”, says Dalibor Jenis, who sings Renato in the current Royal Opera House Un ballo in maschera. “Italian is the language of music, my second mother language” 4464@http://www.operatoday.com/ Commentary 2009-06-29T10:59:03-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/dalibor_jenis_s.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/ts_oZg_18vI/glyndebourne_a_.php Glyndebourne is the epitome of British opera festivals. Seventy-five years ago, John Christie founded the tradition of “country house opera”, where opera can be enjoyed in beautiful settings. 4463@http://www.operatoday.com/ Reviews 2009-06-29T10:08:17-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/glyndebourne_a_.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/2af6qVyDi0Y/un_ballo_in_mas.php On the whole, I’d prefer the conspirators to be sitting on toilets… 4462@http://www.operatoday.com/ Reviews 2009-06-29T09:50:00-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/un_ballo_in_mas.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/sc457ZadGbw/gtterdammerung_.php With Götterdämmerung, a co-production with the Köln Opera House created by Robert Carsen (stage direction), Patrick Kinmonth (sets and costumes) and Jeffrey Tate (conductor), La Fenice approaches completion of the Ring cycle. 4460@http://www.operatoday.com/ Reviews 2009-06-26T11:54:40-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/gtterdammerung_.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/qx_kZWQTwMI/la_traviata_at_.php 4459@http://www.operatoday.com/ Reviews 2009-06-26T09:26:19-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/la_traviata_at_.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/5DuoF-bPDrU/the_lowry_strik.php http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/opera/article6571871.ece 4456@http://www.operatoday.com/ News 2009-06-25T17:33:26-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/the_lowry_strik.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/_ysIK8i6EEw/ligetis_le_gran.php Le Grand Macabre is the only opera of György Ligéti, one of the major composers of the 20th century. 4455@http://www.operatoday.com/ Reviews 2009-06-25T16:59:26-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/ligetis_le_gran.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/KhA4QnE17pE/aspen_music_fes.php http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20090625/NEWS/906249960/1060 4457@http://www.operatoday.com/ News 2009-06-25T12:36:42-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/aspen_music_fes.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/vPIuG2famIQ/schubert_alfons.php What is the worst opera with the best music? 4454@http://www.operatoday.com/ Reviews 2009-06-25T10:48:20-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/schubert_alfons.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/R1Tv5sDcpvk/resignations_en.php http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aQBadmoOMlhU# 4458@http://www.operatoday.com/ News 2009-06-25T07:42:33-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/resignations_en.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/_7zRMmJ8vKY/la_traviata_in_.php Much ink has been spilled over the failed Marta Domingo production of La Traviata that San Francisco Opera inexplicably imported for its blatantly audience baiting summer season (Traviata, Tosca, Porgy and Bess). 4453@http://www.operatoday.com/ Reviews 2009-06-24T21:12:13-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/la_traviata_in_.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/gmGeWvBCcvU/gustav_mahler_s.php The Gala release of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony from Hamburg performances on 29 and 30 November 1954 serves to document further the composer’s presence in the concerto hall prior to the well-known Mahler-renewal in 1960. 4447@http://www.operatoday.com/ Reviews 2009-06-24T20:53:10-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/gustav_mahler_s.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/btxqCtpobHw/a_masked_ball_b.php 4452@http://www.operatoday.com/ Reviews 2009-06-24T20:05:16-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/a_masked_ball_b.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/QW1xlR1KIEI/saint_louis_rel.php It is quite possible that Opera Theatre of Saint Louis is the leading summer opera destination in the United States. 4446@http://www.operatoday.com/ Reviews 2009-06-24T12:12:32-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/saint_louis_rel.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/hnm-tG32Gr4/schwanengesang_.php A performance of sublime authority from Goerne and Eschenbach 4445@http://www.operatoday.com/ Performances 2009-06-22T15:43:43-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/schwanengesang_.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/I37sKgEMwvE/john_mccarthy_c.php http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/john-mccarthy-charismatic-choral-conductor-and-arranger-1712389.html 4442@http://www.operatoday.com/ News 2009-06-21T21:50:48-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/john_mccarthy_c.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/wp6R7wFY07c/madam_butterfly.php Following the death of the American film director Anthony Minghella, ENO were left with a gap in the season vacated by the new production which he had been engaged to direct, and what better way to do so than by bringing back his immensely popular 2005 staging of Madam Butterfly? Minghella’s widow, Carolyn Choa (who has worked on the production from its original conception) was charged with resurrecting the production in tribute. 4441@http://www.operatoday.com/ Reviews 2009-06-21T21:18:41-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/madam_butterfly.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/ixam_F9J4K8/wagners_great-g.php http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1194536/Wagners-great-granddaughter-probe-composers-family-links-Hitler-Nazis.html 4443@http://www.operatoday.com/ News 2009-06-21T20:54:19-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/wagners_great-g.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/eZZPQf6KLSU/ghosts_of_versa.php http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/entertainment/reviews.nsf/stage/story/80A62C6B9AD75BB9862575D9006EA789?OpenDocument 4444@http://www.operatoday.com/ News 2009-06-21T18:00:38-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/ghosts_of_versa.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/zxYVRHbQCpo/madame_says_far.php 4450@http://www.operatoday.com/ Reviews 2009-06-21T11:49:05-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/madame_says_far.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/qZ27-yvbTwg/alceste_by_nyco.php 4449@http://www.operatoday.com/ Reviews 2009-06-21T11:34:13-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/alceste_by_nyco.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/zZJdttbeXQs/brittens_a_sexy.php Robert Carsen’s production of Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is not new, as the La Scala playbill suggests. 4439@http://www.operatoday.com/ Reviews 2009-06-21T10:56:42-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/brittens_a_sexy.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/urwYlW9zOLU/la_cenerentola_.php 4448@http://www.operatoday.com/ Reviews 2009-06-21T10:05:25-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/la_cenerentola_.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/9Ibg58DvaLI/claudio_abbado_.php Very little is known about Giovanni Battista Draghi (or Drago, according to certain sources), known as Pergolesi. 4435@http://www.operatoday.com/ Reviews 2009-06-21T09:16:33-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/claudio_abbado_.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/YxIk0ko2M8M/bachs_st_matthe.php To the sorrow of all lovers of baroque opera, J.S. Bach never composed for the stage. 4451@http://www.operatoday.com/ Reviews 2009-06-20T08:01:33-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/bachs_st_matthe.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/GWx_4lYVMcA/goerne_and_esch.php When Matthias Goerne was six, he heard Winterreise and was captivated. 4440@http://www.operatoday.com/ Reviews 2009-06-19T11:31:13-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/goerne_and_esch.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/mSWKdFbfE64/no_redemption_f.php 4438@http://www.operatoday.com/ Reviews 2009-06-19T09:34:28-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/no_redemption_f.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/I6xD019JCqk/martinus_cheerf.php “Life is too important to be taken seriously” goes the motto. That could describe this cheerful production, just the right good humored tonic for these difficult times. 4437@http://www.operatoday.com/ Reviews 2009-06-18T21:27:27-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/martinus_cheerf.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/1056vYLf3P4/aldeburgh_festi.php Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s early opera, Punch and Judy, premiered at Aldeburgh in 1968. Benjamin Britten reportedly walked out. Now Birtwistle is himself the pre-eminent British composer, whose work has long since become part of the Aldeburgh tradition. This year’s Festival opened with two Birtwistle premieres, The Corridor and Semper Dowland, simper dolens. 4436@http://www.operatoday.com/ Reviews 2009-06-18T09:18:41-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/aldeburgh_festi.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/WfxFhXdVTdk/ian_bostridge_a.php 4434@http://www.operatoday.com/ Reviews 2009-06-17T17:43:36-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/ian_bostridge_a.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/QkkQlrCSExE/bostridge_trade.php Bostridge traded his fey haircut for slicked back Kray brothers look, complete with wrap round dark glasses in this Dreigroschenoper at the Barbican, London. 4433@http://www.operatoday.com/ Reviews 2009-06-17T14:22:15-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/bostridge_trade.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/Qch3CPLpe8I/andreas_scholl_.php Strikes on the London Underground system may have made this a particularly exhausting and exasperating week for Londoners, but despite these wearing adversities Friday evening saw an eager crowd flock to the Wigmore Hall, in excited anticipation of an inspiring and invigorating blend of the familiar and the unfamiliar — and they were not disappointed. 4432@http://www.operatoday.com/ Reviews 2009-06-17T09:33:16-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/andreas_scholl_.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/thOZm9NO1AE/die_schone_mull.php Matthias Goerne and Christoph Eschenbach unite in a Schöne Müllerin of searing intensity. 4430@http://www.operatoday.com/ Reviews 2009-06-17T08:27:31-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/die_schone_mull.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/4bhiHuU7IFY/mozart_idomeneo.php 4422@http://www.operatoday.com/ Reviews 2009-06-17T07:50:50-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/mozart_idomeneo.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/d3NUqbz01fI/vu_et_entendu_c.php http://www.diapasonmag.fr/news.php?id=351 4431@http://www.operatoday.com/ News 2009-06-16T17:23:55-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/vu_et_entendu_c.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/oPYdYQHMZy4/a_classic_confe.php http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/music/48074807.html?elr=KArks:DCiU1OiP:DiiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU 4428@http://www.operatoday.com/ News 2009-06-16T09:28:26-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/a_classic_confe.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/p3n9yaCCmvA/anna_netrebko_r.php http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/15/DDTC1873M1.DTL 4424@http://www.operatoday.com/ News 2009-06-15T17:06:33-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/anna_netrebko_r.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/AfDGIJySh7E/aop_opera_on_ta.php http://broadwayworld.com/printcolumn.cfm?id=56459 4423@http://www.operatoday.com/ News 2009-06-15T16:59:07-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/aop_opera_on_ta.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/uUibA1vkI0E/anna_netrebko_-.php http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/12/LVAK182A57.DTL 4419@http://www.operatoday.com/ News 2009-06-15T14:32:14-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/anna_netrebko_-.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/wzpThgdomVQ/kiri_te_kanawa_.php http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-kiri14-2009jun14,0,4349627.story 4425@http://www.operatoday.com/ News 2009-06-15T14:12:18-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/kiri_te_kanawa_.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/MWIDFqBoeUA/operas_based_on.php The current theme relates to operas based on the works of Friedrich von Schiller. 4346@http://www.operatoday.com/ Theme 2009-06-15T13:57:17-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/operas_based_on.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/GTLlvDPAu18/goddesses_have_.php http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/arts/music/13poppea.html?ref=arts 4426@http://www.operatoday.com/ News 2009-06-15T12:20:33-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/goddesses_have_.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/kpFb4dPUkng/g_iolanthe_offe.php http://www.sfexaminer.com/entertainment/GS-Iolanthe-offers-old-fun-new-relevance-47884772.html 4427@http://www.operatoday.com/ News 2009-06-15T11:35:19-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/g_iolanthe_offe.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/J2QFiHj_8Wc/haydns_bicenten.php 4421@http://www.operatoday.com/ Reviews 2009-06-15T10:56:02-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/haydns_bicenten.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OperaToday/~3/MHzi1APox8o/la_scala_at_the.php From the La Scala series of filmed productions come two excellent DVDs, one an incisive and contemporary staging by Patrice Chereau of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, and the other a rip-roaring, old-fashioned (in the best sense) performance of Donizetti's flawed but entertaining Maria Stuarda. 4415@http://www.operatoday.com/ Reviews 2009-06-15T08:39:00-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2009/06/la_scala_at_the.php