https://operawire.com/cd-dvd-releases-week-of-nov-5-2/
It’s the holiday season but there is only one release for the week. So to make up for it, at the end of the week, in time for Black Friday and for the beginning of Holiday shopping, OperaWire will pick out a list of some of our favorite releases this year and what we think you need to have in your {…}
https://operawire.com/san-francisco-opera-2018-19-review-its-a-wonderful-life/
Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s “It’s A Wonderful Life” opened earlier this week at San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House. An American success story based on “The Greatest Gift” by Philip Van Doren Stern, and Frank Capra’s beloved film on the same story, it combined old and new, young and original, odd and familiar, poignant and comic. Neither movie nor {…}
https://operawire.com/sumi-jo-among-artists-to-participate-in-dreamland-gala-to-support-unicef/
Violinist Yury Revich will lead the “Dreamland Gala” at the Theater an der Wien on Thursday, Nov. 22. The event is set to take place as part of the “Friday Nights With Yuri Revich” series. The concert, which will dedicate proceeds to UNICEF in Austria will feature such vocal artists as soprano Sumi Jo, as well as Hasmik Papian and {…}
https://operawire.com/black-square-to-make-world-premiere-at-tretyakov-gallery/
The new opera “Black Square” will get a hotly anticipated world premiere at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow on November 27, 2018 after three years in development. With music by Ilya Demutsky and libretto by Olga Maslova and Igor Konyukhov, the opera is a two-act futuristic tragicomedy that “mixes intellectual traditions of Russian avant-garde and fast pacing style of an {…}
https://operawire.com/artist-profile-barbara-hendricks-soprano-jazz-singer-movie-star/
Barbara Hendricks is the textbook example of a singer that can truly do it all. Born on Nov. 20, 1948, in Arkansas, she graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a degree in mathematics and chemistry. But from there it was all music. She studied at Juilliard under mezzo-soprano Jennie Tourel and took master classes with Maria Callas. Per the {…}
https://operawire.com/cecilia-bartoli-announces-new-album-for-holiday-season/
Twenty years ago, mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli released “The Vivaldi Album,” which redefined her as an artist in the eyes of many around the opera world. Now she has returned to that original well of inspiration with her latest album, “Antonio Vivaldi.” This new album will feature the mezzo in collaboration with the French baroque orchestra Ensemble Matheus under Jean-Christophe Spinosi. {…}
https://operawire.com/met-opera-2018-19-preview-il-trittico-celebrates-its-200-years-since-world-premiere/
Puccini’s “Il Trittico” returns to the Met Opera on Nov. 23, 2018, for seven performances. Despite being one of Puccini’s finest works, it has only been presented with the company on 74 occasions; by the end of this run, it will have 81 performances total. As is always the case with these operas, there are a ton of singers involved {…}
https://operawire.com/ccademia-nazionale-di-santa-cecilia-2018-review-the-gospel-according-to-the-other-mary/
“The Gospel according to the other Mary,” is defined by John Adams, and the complier of the libretto, Peter Sellars, as an opera-oratorio, and sitting in the concert hall of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, in Rome, watching a performance of the work, conducted by the composer, it is easy to see why. For this is a work that {…}
https://operawire.com/artist-profile-amelita-galli-curci-a-legend-from-the-early-20th-century/
Italian soprano Amelita Galli-Curci is one of the most renowned and popular singers from the very start of the 20th century. She was born on Nov. 18, 1882, in Milan where she studied piano at the conservatory. By age 16, she was offered a professorship. She eventually trained as a singer, claiming to be largely self-trained. In 1906, she appeared {…}
