For this week’s word search, we turn our attention to the great interpreters of Ponchielli’s “La Gioconda.” 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 {…}
Puccini’s “La Bohème” might just be the most popular opera ever written. We know its tunes. We know its love story. We know its ability to navigate the totality of life’s highs and lows in sweeping and crushing manner. So for this week’s quiz, we will test that knowledge more intimately. How well do you know it’s history? It’s libretto {…}
“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 Federico Fellini’s “And {…}
For this week’s quiz, we turn back to one of the giants of the operatic canon – Verdi. In this iteration, you will be presented with a scenario regarding one of Verdi’s main operas. These scenarios will usually relate to which characters are designated opening or closing lines of an opera, or other unique details in terms of their positioning {…}
(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: Teatro Massimo di Palermo) Opera in Europe continues to flourish with performances around Italy bringing mass audiences and acclaimed singers in some of their signature roles. This week the Teatro Massimo di Palmero opened its “Cavalleria Rusticana” with Aleksandra Kurzak making her role debut as Santuzza and Roberto Alagna in his signature Turiddu. It is a big week for {…}
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 {…}
