Metropolitan Opera 2024-25 Review: Grounded

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(Credit: MetropolItan Opera / Ken Howard) WARNING: This review features explicit language. It also uses some variation of the word “frustrating” a lot. To use a line from the cathartic and sublime climax in Jeanine Tesori and George Brant’s “Grounded” – “What the f*ck?” That quotidian expression perfectly encapsulates, in the context of the climax and at large, the frustration {…}

News

Obituary: Composer Alexander Goehr Passes Away at 92

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(Photo credit: Tom Hurley) Composer Alexander Goehr passed away on August 26, 2024 at the age of 92. The German-born English composer and academic was born on August 10, 1932, in Berlin. His mother Laelia was a classically trained pianist, and his father Walter Goehr, a pupil of Arnold Schoenberg, was a conductor and composer. He studied composition at the {…}

Business, News

Elizabeth S. Condic to Be Interim Executive Director & CEO of Houston Symphony

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The Houston Symphony has announced that Elizabeth S. Condic, the company’s Chief Financial Officer, is taking on the role of Interim Executive Director and CEO. She will take over for outgoing CEO John Mangum, who is taking over the role of General Director, President, and CEO of Lyric Opera of Chicago. Condic first started working with the organization in November {…}

News

Opera Frankfurt Announces Cast Change for ‘Lulu’

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Oper Frankfurt has announced a cast change for its production of Berg’s “Lulu.” The company said that Vera-Lotte Boecker has withdrawn from the production and will be replaced by Brenda Rae. Rae took to social media and said, ” Sometimes things fall into place in the most amazing ways. After a disappointing cancellation this coming fall, I got the call {…}

Behind the Scenes, Interviews

Q & A: Italian Librettist Fabrizio Funari on His New Opera ‘Aqua Tofana’

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Italian librettist Fabrizio Funari‘s newest opera with music by composer Gaia Aloisi, “Aqua Tofana,” is set to premiere on September 22nd in London at the Tête à Tête Festival. “Aqua Tofana” also features director Rosie Kat, producer Ted Blackburn, lighting designer Mildred Moyo, and singers soprano Sarah Parkin, mezzo-soprano Alexandra Dinwiddie and baritone Thomas Litchev. Following its London premiere, the {…}

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Palau de la Musica de Valencia Announces 2024-25 Season

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The Palau de la Musica de Valencia has announced its 2024-25 season. Here are the vocal performances. Chen Reiss and Fleur Barron lead Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with Conductor Alexander Liebreich. Performance Date: Nov. 8, 2024 Cristina Faus and Javier Palacios perform a program alongside Mirian Khukhunaishvili of music by Schönberg and Mahler. Performance Date: Dec. 4, 2024 Jessica Cale, {…}

Opera Meets Film, Special Features

Opera Meets Film: Multimodal Marriages in Daron Hagen’s ‘9/10: Love Before the Fall’

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The nature of cinematography and (classical) singing is long-winded. From some of the early experiments like the acclaimed 1927 film, “The Jazz Singer” by Warner Bros, to the emergence of new giants like Metro-Goldwyn-Mayers Studios (MGM) and their copious amount of opera-laced films like their 1935 film, “A Night at The Opera,” opera on film has had a long development. {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Deutsche Oper Berlin 2023-24 Review: Götterdämmerung

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(Photo Credit: Bernd Uhlig) There is something unique about waiting for the curtain to rise on “Götterdämmerung.” Anyone who has followed a “Ring” in the theatre, may take their seat in sadness as this evening will end the journey through the most fabled, mythical and symbolic landscape of all. Though the images and sentiments confronted in any given production condition {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Royal Opera House 2023–24 Review: Tosca (Cast B)

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(Photo credit: © Marc Brenner/Royal Opera) N.B. In this performance of “Tosca” Russell Thomas replaced the previously scheduled Yusif Eyvazov, who was indisposed. Entitlement enlightens spectators on the contrasting and yet comparable personas of soprano Floria Tosca and barbaric chief of police Scarpia: spoiled brats forsaking all who block their way. Sways of a dress’s train portray the former’s annexing {…}

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Metropolitan Opera 2024-25 Review: Grounded

Obituary: Composer Alexander Goehr Passes Away at 92

Elizabeth S. Condic to Be Interim Executive Director & CEO of Houston Symphony

Opera Frankfurt Announces Cast Change for ‘Lulu’

Q & A: Italian Librettist Fabrizio Funari on His New Opera ‘Aqua Tofana’

Palau de la Musica de Valencia Announces 2024-25 Season

Opera Meets Film: Multimodal Marriages in Daron Hagen’s ‘9/10: Love Before the Fall’

Deutsche Oper Berlin 2023-24 Review: Götterdämmerung

Royal Opera House 2023–24 Review: Tosca (Cast B)