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Reviews, Stage Reviews

Deutsche Oper Berlin 2024-25 Review: Carmen

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(Photo Credit: Bettina Stöß / Photo courtesy of Deutsche Oper Berlin) Voices that move your heart and acting that moves your heart – this is Opera. With a tux in Vienna or a smart-casual look in Covent Garden. Champagne or water. Sustained attention or simply laying back and enjoying the night. Pleasing surprises and unbelievable disappointments. From the Met to {…}

News

Roderick Williams & Lucy Crowe to Headline Royal Opera House’s ‘The Sound Voice Project’

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(Photo © Sound Voice) Royal Opera House Covent Garden is set to present “The Sound Voice Project” this fall at the Lindbury Theatre. From Nov. 14-20, 2024, audiences will get to experience a mix of personal documentary, graphics, digital projections and performance film that “invites the audience to explore the intrinsic value of the human voice and how it affects {…}

Interviews

Q & A: Soprano Aida Garifullina on Her Role in ‘La Traviata’ & How to Connect With Opera in Deeper Ways

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(Photograph by Camilla Greenwell) Russian-Tatar star soprano Aida Garifullina is considered one of the best singers of her generation and is an internationally celebrated artist. She is a regular guest artist of the world’s leading opera houses and concert venues, including the Royal Opera House, La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, Paris National Opera, Arena di Verona, and Salzburg Festival. Garifullina {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Royal Opera House 2024-25 Review: Le Nozze di Figaro

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(Credit: Clive Barda) As marriages go, this wasn’t one made in heaven. But despite an uneven performance, it ultimately won the audience over and did have moments of striking musical beauty. As the opening night for the 2024-25 season at Covent Garden, the revival of David McVicar’s “Le nozze di Figaro” did predictably well, and filled the house on a {…}

Business, News

Véronique Gens Joins OWL Artist Management

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French Véronique Gens has joined OWL Artist Management for General Management. The soprano is a well-known opera singer who is considered one of the finest interpreters of Mozart and the French repertory.  Gens has performed with the world’s greatest houses including the Opéra National de Paris, The Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Wiener Staatsoper, La Monnaie in Brussels, Gran {…}

DVD and CD Reviews, Reviews

CD Review: Aigul Akhmetshina’s Debut Album ‘Aigul’

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A debut album from the new darling of the opera world: Aigul Akhmetshina, the young mezzo soprano from Bashkortostan. While training with the Royal Opera House’s Jette Parker Artists Programme in London, Akhmetshina has performed the role of Carmen in Peter Brooks’ condensed version of Bizet’s opera and later understudied the titular role in the main house while performing the {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Buxton International Festival 2024 Review: The Boatswain’s Mate

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(Photo: Genevieve Girling) Born into an upper middle-class family in 1858, Ethyl Smyth went on to fashion a successful career as a composer, which was certainly no easy feat given the many obstacles facing women wishing to pursue almost any career in Victorian England; even her own father opposed her choice. Yet, she was able to push through the many {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Opera Theatre Saint Louis 2024 Review: Julius Caesar

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(Photo: Eric Woolsey) For their 2024 mainstage summer festival season, Opera Theatre Saint Louis (OTSL) paired two fixtures in top-ten performance frequency, “The Barber of Seville” and “La Bohème,” with two exciting, less offered menu items. Philip Glass’s “Galileo Galilei” (2002) received just its fourth staging anywhere, while George Frideric Händel’s operatic capolavoro, “Julius Caesar” (“Giulio Cesare in Egitto,” 1724) {…}

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 {…}