(Credit: Cory Weaver/Lyric Opera of Chicago) Elisabet Strid is considered one of today’s leading dramatic sopranos. She has performed on some of the world’s greatest stages to great acclaim and has specialized in the works of Wagner and Strauss. But there is without a doubt one role that has defined her career up to this point; Sieglinde in Wagner’s “Die {…}
For those of you who have tried out our previous word search puzzles focused on composers, librettists, operas, and arias, you will notice a trend – we are keeping to a specific pool of works (for now). In keeping with that pattern we will shift to the conductors leading the first performances of many of those works. In this case, {…}
Leontyne Price, born on Feb. 10, 1927, is undeniably one of the greatest sopranos to ever grace any opera stage. There is also no doubt that despite her international feats, her exploits at the Metropolitan Opera are easily her most renowned. And that is the subject of our latest opera quiz. As always, have fun!
(Credit: Marty Sohl/Met Opera) The Metropolitan Opera House is a dream for every opera singer. This week acclaimed coloratura soprano and rising star Brenda Rae will get a chance to realize that very dream when she makes her Met debut in the company’s first-ever production of Handel and Grimani’s “Agrippina.” Rae, who is a former ensemble member of Oper Frankfurt {…}
The opera aria is one of the best-known passages of any work. So for this week’s edition of the word search we ask you to find in the missing word from each of these solo passages. Instructions: You are free to solve the word search directly on your mobile or desktop device; just click the first and last letter of {…}
“Voce d’un angelo” was a term often used to describe Renata Tebaldi’s musicianship. That is undeniably the impression that she gave me in my first encounter with her artistry, in a famed recording of “Otello” under Herbert von Karajan. The purity and elegance of her singing was the perfect match for the role of Desdemona, which is undeniably one of {…}
(Credit: Pierre Petit) When Giacomo Meyerbeer died on May 2 in 1864 in Paris, he was one of the most performed composers of his time. Among the surviving manuscript documents in the Meyerbeer archive in Berlin is to be found a prayer that Giacomo Meyerbeer wrote on 8 December 1863, a few months before his death: “Great almighty God! … {…}
(Credit: Steven Laxton) Throughout the years the story of Orfeo and Euridice has been portrayed on stage in several different works and operas. Gluck’s “Orfeo ed Euridice” has dominated the scene while Monteverdi’s “Orfeo” has slowly seen a resurgence in popularity. But it doesn’t stop there as Haydn, Charpentier, Luigi Rossi and even Offenbach put their mark on the story. {…}
For this edition of the word search, we are asking you to seek out the last name of the Librettist for the corresponding opera. 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 {…}
