https://operawire.com/la-opera-to-simulcast-carmen/
The LA Opera simulcast is back and this year the company will bring the experience to the Los Angeles community on Sept. 23, 2017. With the help of the Los Angeles County and the Board of Supervisors, the Los Angeles Opera will broadcast the evening’s performance of “Carmen” to the Santa Monica Pier and Exposition Park. The opera is set {…}
https://operawire.com/chautauqua-opera-2017-review-don-pasquale-a-top-notch-cast-production-make-for-an-enjoyable-evening-of-donizettis-comic-masterwork/
In what appears to be a trend this summer, Chautauqua Opera’s production of Donizetti’s classic opera buffa “Don Pasquale” was distinguished by its treatment of a non-title character, in this case the gorgeous lyric baritone of Kyle Pfortmiller as Dr. Malatesta. Under the direction of David Schweizer, Malatesta doesn’t just engineer the complicated ruse designed to unite lovers Norina (Laura {…}
https://operawire.com/opera-meets-film-how-wagners-tristan-und-isolde-lars-von-triers-melancholia-are-married-through-suffering-destruction/
“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 Lars Von Trier’s {…}
https://operawire.com/hudson-hall-millay-colony-for-the-arts-to-celebrate-womens-suffrage-centenary-this-fall/
The Hudson Hall at the Hudson Opera House will partner with The Millay Colony for the Arts to celebrate the centenary of Women’s suffrage with a presentation of Virgil Thomson’s “The Mother of Us All.” The production of the opera will be showcased on Nov. 11, 2017, with subsequent performances on the 12th, 15th, 18th, and 19th, all of them {…}
https://operawire.com/guggenheim-museum-to-preview-girls-of-the-golden-west-the-exterminating-angel/
The Guggenheim Museum has announced its Works & Process series for the fall season, which will include two new operas. The series will include John Adams’s opera “Girls of the Golden West,” which is slated to have its world premiere this fall in San Francisco. New Yorkers will have a chance to preview the work on Sept. 21 and 22, 2017, {…}
https://operawire.com/opera-holland-park-raises-40000-during-charity-concert/
The Opera Holland Park has raised about £40,000 for survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire and victims’ families after hundreds of tickets sold out in 24 hours. The concert, which was held on August 1, 2017, saw four soloists and members of the chorus and orchestra give their services for free for the one-off fundraiser, which took place in one of {…}
https://operawire.com/remembering-the-gundula-janowitz-herbert-von-karajan-connection/
Gundula Janowitz, born on August 2, 1937, is one of the most famous sopranos of the 20th century, spanning a wide range of German repertoire and making her name well-regarded in oratorios, lieder, and other concerts. While she had a major association with a wide range of great conductors and the greatest opera houses in the world, there is one {…}
https://operawire.com/festival-della-valle-ditria-2017-review-orlando-furioso-imaginative-production-vocal-artistry-make-case-for-vivaldis-operatic-talents/
During his lifetime Vivaldi was a prolific composer of operas, responsible for setting at least 45 libretti, linked to at least 67 stage works, although Vivaldi claimed it to be 94. Yet, today his operatic output has been largely forgotten, being at best, of marginal interest to the opera-going public, restricted to recordings, rare concerts, and even rarer staged performances. {…}
https://operawire.com/performance-santa-fe-2017-review-festival-of-song-brief-encounters-vocal-quintet-three-short-operas-deliver-memorable-evening/
On July 30, 2017, at the Scottish Rite Center, Performance Santa Fe presented a vocal quintet and 3 short operas. Fifteen-year-old Ezra Shcolnik, a graduate of Performance Santa Fe’s young artist program who currently studies at the Colburn School in Los Angeles, wrote the Quintet. Mark Adamo, Jake Heggie, and Joe Illick wrote the short operas. Maestro Illick also accompanied {…}
