News and informations about opera

Photo gallery: More Norfolk and Norwich Festival fun this weekend

Norfolk and Norwich Festival artistic director William Galinsky with NNF associate director Patrick Dickie and NNF artistic associate Mikey Martins .

Mauro Vescera of the Italian Cultural Centre

Mauro Vescera of the Italian Cultural Centre, which opened in the 1970s, is looking to rejuvenate the centre by attracting younger members and forging new partnerships.

Lohengrin, Welsh National Opera, review
The Welsh National Opera's Lohengrin a delight, says Rupert Christiansen.

    

Why operatic powerhouse Bryn Terfel is set for a very special summer

Bryn Terfel has played the world's greatest opera houses, but is heading home for four summer music specials.

Opera singer proposes on stage

Most opera singers are content to take a bow at the end of their performance but Jon Roche went a step further - and went down on bended knee.

Clash of the Titans: An Exploration of Verdi & Wagner

Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner wrote some of the most famous music of all time.

La Scala forced to cut number of operas
La Scala opera house in Milan has announced it is being forced to reduce the number of operas it will produce next season thanks to the economic crisis and cuts to its public funding.

    

Viktor Ullmann's opera written in Nazi concentration camp revived in Berlin

Czech-German composer's satire on Adolf Hitler, The Emperor from Atlantis, to be staged at former SS and Gestapo HQ Viktor Ullmann wrote The Emperor from Atlantis while at the Theresienstadt concentration camp, in what is now the Czech Republic.

D.C. high school student's opera hits stage this weekend

Juan Amaya's first opera, "Cinde'ella," will have its world premiere this weekend at The Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Georgetown.

Video: Le Villi/Mese Mariano dress rehearsal

One of Spoleto's grand operas this year is a double bill featuring Puccini's Le Villi and Umberto Giordano's Mese Mariano .

Operatic society tuning up for musical extravaganza

HOT on the heels of a hugely successful production of The Sound of Music, a North-East drama group has announced its next project.

Nagel looking forward to life after Rimrock Opera

"Oh my God! I've done the opera for 14 seasons!" said Doug Nagel, commenting on his decision to leave the Rimrock Opera.

Falstaff, at Glyndebourne, review
Richard Jones's 2009 production of Verdi's Falstaff is superbly revived, says John Allison.

    

The Opera San Antonio: Eight stars shine brightly

In an event laden with symbolism for San Antonio's opera future, The Opera San Antonio began a new chapter with its debut, star-studded recital Thursday night at the Majestic Theatre .

Wagner Ring Mixtape

Richard Wagner, who turned 200 yesterday, wrote one of the great epic stories ever in his Ring of the Nibelung .

Chili and Opera

I've never made a bucket list. If asked what might be on mine, I can list only going to an opera.

CHLOE Light Opera Festival Offers New Experience in Music Theater

May 22, 2013 - CAMP HILL, Pa. -- Camp Hill Light Opera Experience, or CHLOE, will present two works, the award-winning new show, Not A Tenor, and perennial favorite Patience, by Gilbert & Sullivan, during its inaugural light opera festival, June 13-16, 2013, at the Grace Milliman Pollock PAC in Camp Hill.

Opera for Heathens comes to Fernie

By Nicole Liebermann - The Free Press Published: May 23, 2013 1:00 PM Updated: May 23, 2013 1:31 PM A versatile and unorthodox performer with an international career is bringing his hit one-man show, Opera for Heathens, to The Arts Station on Wednesday, May 29.

Milan's La Scala theatre scales back on opera productions because of Italy's financial crisis

La Scala has reduced the number of operas it will stage during the 2013-14 season due to Italy's economic crisis, the theatre's general manager said Thursday.

With this Wagner's ring, I'll thee wed

The Ministry of Defence has this afternoon named the soldier killed in yesterday's attack in Woolwick as 25-year-old Drummer Lee Rigby, of of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Welsh actor Rhys is up against Brits Damian Lewis and Andrew Lincoln for the best actor award at a ceremony to be held next month in Los Angeles Welsh National ... (more)

Northwestern goes from Baroque to swinging sixties with sexy opera this weekend

Love, deception, murder and betrayal come to Northwestern University's Evanston campus this weekend via a modernized version of L'incoronazione di Poppea .

Classical music: SPCO 2013-14 season

Edo de Waart, an SPCO artistic partner, opens the chamber orchestra's 2013-14 season in September, with music of Beethoven.

Opera to bring 1,100-year-old tale to life in today's Apgujeong

According to hyangga, or folk songs from the Silla Kingdom , Cheo Yong was a man who came from nowhere and married a Silla woman.

Milan's famed La Scala theatre scales back on opera productions in response to crisis

La Scala's manager says the 2013-14 season will have three fewer operas than usual due to the economic crisis.

A National treasure - Hytner looks back on his greatest hits

It was Nicholas Hytner's third big opening in as many weeks. And how better to follow celebrated productions of Verdi's Don Carlo starring Jonas Kaufmann at the Royal Opera House and Shakespeare's Othello with Adrian Lester at the National Theatre than an evening in conversation at the London Jewish Cultural Centre.

Fry to curate opera festival

Stephen Fry is to curate this year's Deloitte Ignite festival at the Royal Opera House exploring the work of the Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner.

'Aida' love songs tell tragic tale at Blue Room Theatre

The works of famed Italian operatic composer, Giuseppe Verdi, are noted for their emotional intensity, tuneful melodies and dramatic characterizations.

Movie guide: Capsule listing of current releases

Ratings by the Motion Picture Association of America are: for general audiences; parental guidance urged because of material possibly unsuitable for children; parents are strongly cautioned to give guidance for attendance of children younger than 13; restricted, younger than 17 admitted only with parent or adult guardian; no one younger than 17 ... (more)

Opera singer to perform benefit concert at First Baptist Church

Opera star and Grammy nominee Jamie Barton will be featured in a benefit performance at First Baptist Church on May 30.

Wagner's 200th birthday celebrated with opera singalong

In the shower or in the car -- with the windows rolled up -- weren't the only places amateur Seattle opera singers could perform Wednesday night.

Live from Lincoln Center "Audra McDonald - Go Back Home"

As I'm sure is true for many of you, I first became aware of Audra McDonald from her performance in Terrence McNally's play, "Master Class." She played the role of a young, aspiring opera singer attending Maria Callas's Master Class at New York's Juilliard School of Music .

Burlington's Spielpalast Cabaret Is Still a Bracing Dose of Decadence

Give it a couple more years, and Burlington's 12-year-old Spielpalast Cabaret will have lasted as long as the Weimar Republic whose popular theater inspired it.

North Fort Myers High cleans up on musical awards

North Fort Myers High School was second to none at the Barbara B. Mann High School Musical Awards at the Mann Performing Arts Hall in Fort Myers last Monday.

Los Angeles calls upon star French designers for 'Figaro' opera

Count Almaviva, muscles bulging and resplendent in white, struts like a peacock across the stage belting his baritone at his countess, who sits in a flowing red gown against a sparse backdrop of sleek, modernist lines.

Royal Opera House performance streamed live to Sunderland's Empire Cinema

Gioachino Rossini's La Donna Del Lago will be screened live from the world-famous Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden, to Empire Cinema in Sunniside.

Happy 200th Birthday Richard Wagner (5/22/13), Genius Opera Composer, ...

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Review: 'Tosca' presents weak end to L.A. Opera's season

Sondra Radvanovsky and Marco Berti in the piano dress rehearsal for L.A. Opera's production of Puccini's "Tosca" on May 12, 2013.

Operafest brings best of the art to Western's stage

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Analysis: From opera to exercises, U.S. and China deepen military ties

Even as the United States accuses China of military espionage and worries about Beijing's more strident posture in the Asia-Pacific region, the ties between the armed forces of the two nations have been getting closer.

Metropolis revisited

Forget Star Trek into Darkness , Iron Man 3 , Oblivion , and all of those other hyped-up blockbusters.

Peaches On Her New Film, Rock Opera and Going All the Way

I'm a progressive, liberal feminist woman-I've lived in San Francisco's Castro district, walking side by side with naked residents exercising their right to free expression.

Opera Review: Stereotypical realism in 'La Traviata'

Crowd scenes were appropriately crowded. Violetta's semi-striptease in Act I, though not objectionable, of course, contributed nothing to the action.