Boston’s Opera del West is set to present “La Clemenza di Tito” on Sept. 29 – Oct. 1, 2023. The Mozart opera will be showcased in an updated production that features additional dialogue in English; the opera will still be performed in the original Italian. Lucas Hickman takes on the title role and is joined by a cast that includes {…}
Opera is not one thing, as many people know. Instead, opera is an umbrella term for a large host of different categories and types ranging from the typical to the rather peculiar. While Mozart looks one way, Monteverdi and Wagner will look a different way. Of course they all follow the same trajectory, but their style has led them in {…}
Juilliard Opera has announced its 2023-24 season, including two operas that will be presented with the company for the first time ever. First up is John Musto and Mark Campbell’s “Later the Same Evening,” a work inspired by Edward Hopper and New York in the 1950s. The opera will be directed by Alison Moritz and conducted by Joseph Colaneri. Performance {…}
The ABAO Bilbao Opera is set to present the Bilbao premiere of Fabio Ceresa’s production of “La Clemenza di Tito” starting on Jan. 22, 2022. The opera will be presented at the Euskealduna Bilbao with conductor Riccardo Frizza leading the Euskadiko Orkestra. The work will star Paolo Fanale in the title role with Daniela Mack as Sesto. In the role {…}
The ABAO Bilbao Opera has announced that it has ceased ticket sales its performances of Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito.” Per the opera house’s official statement, the Basque Government ordered the venue to limit its seating capacity to a maximum of 800 spectators, within other measures to stem the exponential spread of the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus. {…}
Opera performances resumed at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon earlier this year as Portugal’s handling of the pandemic was widely praised as possibly the best within the European Union. In Lisbon, ensembles large and small have begun filling up local church series, community performance spaces, and neighborhood stages, while fado singers have returned to smokey late-night bars {…}
(Credit: Curtis Opera Theatre) On November 6, 2021, the Curtis Opera Theatre presented the premiere of “MERCY,” a filmed reimagining of Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito.” This new version, by co-writers and co-directors Chas Rader-Shieber and Alek Shrader, uses a re-orchestrated score and cinematography to create an innovative experience. Singers from the Curtis Opera Theatre were accompanied by a small {…}
(Credit: https://www.visitlisboa.com/) Portugal’s Teatro Nacional de São Carlos has announced the schedule until January 2022. Here is a look at operatic and vocal performances. Operas The season opens with concert performances of Tchaikovsky‘s “Iolanta.” The opera spotlights Misha Didyk, Evgeny Stavinsky, Guriy Guryev, and Zarina Abaeva in the title role. Graeme Jenkins conducts. Performance Dates: Sep. 29 – Oct. 3, 2021 {…}
The Opéra National de Paris has announced that it will be presenting Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito” at the Palais Garnier, starting on June 30, 2021. The production will star Stanislas de Barbeyrac in the title role alongside Amanda Majeski, Anna El-Khashem, Christian Van Horn, Michèle Losier, and Jeanne Ireland. Mark Wigglesworth will conduct the Orchestre de l’Opéra National de {…}
The Royal Opera House announced that it will present the special performance of Puccini’s opera ‘La bohème’ in order to express their gratitude to the staff of the National Health Service. The presentation will take place on June 27, 2021. The opera will be performed for specially-invited NHS staff, including nurses and healthcare support workers from the Royal Opera House’s {…}
(Photo credit: Frances Marshall) What’s opera about? Passion? Drama? Politics? Sex? All the above, of course, and it’s been that way since 1597, even in the face of censorship. Yet, the prohibitions around taboo topics such as politics and sex caused composers and librettists to get creative when including such material in their operas. Opera critic, author, and historian par {…}