(Image Source: Met OPera Official Website) OperaWire is proud to partner with Appreciate Opera, a website founded by Alkis Karmpaliotis in which he highlights his passion for opera. Karmpaliotis, an OperaWire contributing author, will focus on his passion for opera and how to share it with newer and younger audiences. Getting young people to become opera-goers is one of the {…}
“Opera Meets Film” is a feature dedicated to exploring the way that opera has been employed in cinema. We will select a section or a film in its entirety, highlighting the impact that utilizing the operatic form or sections from an opera can alter our perception of a film that we are viewing. This week’s installment features Luchino Visconti’s “Death {…}
(Credit: Evan Zimmerman) At one time or another, artists face this question: what to do with the physical possessions accumulated during their careers, especially if they might be helpful to future generations? In soprano Renée Fleming’s case, she decided to call on The Juilliard School, where she received her postgraduate training. “Most artists have a relationship with their alma mater {…}
Baroque opera was new to me in 1975. When San Francisco Opera announced it would premier a work of Monteverdi, one of the progenitors of Italian opera, I debated whether to audition for another non-singing Super role with the company. I had a whole other life to consider—professional and familial. With nightly rehearsals over the course of six weeks in {…}
(Credit: Vienna State Opera) For this week’s we will look at the interpreters of Elsa’s “Lohengrin.” Instructions: You are free to solve the word search directly on your mobile or desktop device; just click the first and last letter of each word for it to appear on the screen. For those using a mobile device, we highly recommend turning it {…}
(Credit: Marty Sohl) A little while back, we challenged you on how well you could identify an opera by its opening lines. Now we are going to flip it on its head and ask you to recall those final essential words of an opera libretto and identity the opera. As always, have fun!
The summer season continues in Europe with the Rossini Opera Festival finally getting underway. While this year the festival will be performed in a reduced edition, there will be opera productions including “La Cambiale di Matrimonio,” a rarely performed one-act comic opera that is set to inaugurate the highly anticipated event. For the production, the festival has lined up a {…}
Daniel Catán is one of the great opera composers in the last half of the 20th century. The Mexican composer created a number of operas throughout his career before his death at age 62 in 2011. He had stated openly his desire to create a strong tradition of Spanish-language opera, which is still lacking to this day. For this week’s {…}
“Opera Meets Film” is a feature dedicated to exploring the way that opera has been employed in cinema. We will select a section or a film in its entirety, highlighting the impact that utilizing the operatic form or sections from an opera can alter our perception of a film that we are viewing. This week’s installment features Lucino Visconti’s “The {…}
