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DVD and CD Releases, News

Annalisa Stroppa, Lise Davidsen, Luciano Pavarotti & Yannick Nézet-Séguin Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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Welcome back for this week’s look at the latest CD and DVD releases in the opera world. This week you get albums from two very famous singers, a soundtrack to one of this year’s Oscar contenders, and two complete opera recordings you cannot miss. Maestro Deutsche Grammophon releases the official soundtrack to Bradley Cooper’s new film “Maestro.” The recording features {…}

DVD and CD Reviews, Reviews

CD Review: Pentatone’s ‘Tosca’

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After this summer’s “Un Ballo in Maschera,” the forces behind the Dutch label Pentatone are turning their attention to another heavy-hitter from the Italian repertoire: with “Tosca” they enter the well-trodden territory of one of the most recorded operas ever. Yet, Carlo Montanaro and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester do not pretend to proverbially reinvent the wheel the way Rostropovich famously did in {…}

DVD and CD Releases, News

Francesco Meli, Elīna Garanča & Laura Strickling Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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This week audiences will get a chance to listen to a tribute album to one of the greatest sopranos in history, two new DVDs and a soundtrack to one of this year’s most acclaimed films. The Distances Between SOMM Recordings releases “The Distances Between,” the second volume of songs – including 17 first recordings – by Stephen Dodgson marking the {…}

News

San Diego Opera Names New Artistic Administrator

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San Diego Opera has announced the appointment of Melody Moore as its Artistic Administrator. In her new role, the famed soprano will serve as an advisor to General Director David Bennett in casting decisions. Moore has performed with such companies as Los Angeles Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Seattle Opera, and Washington National Opera, among others. “I am {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

San Francisco Opera 2022 Review: Dialogues of the Carmelites

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Remarkable. Francis Poulenc’s “Dialogues of the Carmelites” opened at the San Francisco Opera War Memorial Opera House for the first time since the 1980s. We were strangers as the curtain rose, far away in time and belief, conviction, and the Reign of Terror after the French Revolution. Yet we were also familiars, who knew in our hearts and minds the {…}

News, Streaming

Heidi Stober Leads San Francisco Opera’s ‘Dialogues des Carmélites’

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(Photo : Vincent Pontet) San Francisco Opera’s Centennial Season is set to continue with Francis Poulenc’s “Dialogues des Carmélites” at the War Memorial Opera House. The production by Olivier Py, which is set to run between Oct. 15 and 30, will be conducted by Music Director Eun Sun Kim. The Poulenc opera will star Heidi Stober in her role debut {…}

News

Michael Fabiano, Julia Bullock, Karah Son, Pretty Yende, Nina Stemme Headline San Francisco Opera’s Centennial 2022-23 Season

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San Francisco Opera has announced its 2022-23 season, which represents the 100th anniversary of the organization. To that effect, the company will aim to honor its history as just the third American opera company to ever reach the centennial milestone. The season will kick off with an “Opera Ball – The Centennial Celebration” which will feature such performers as Nadine {…}

DVD and CD Reviews, Reviews

CD Review: Pentatone’s ‘La Fanciulla del West’

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An aesthetic outlier in the grand tradition of Italian opera, “La Fanciulla del West” occupies a singular position both historically and within the growing catalog of Pentatone’s multichannel audio recordings. The Dutch label proposes two contrasting takes on Puccini’s tale of the Wild West; a remastered version of the DG classic (with Carol Neblett’s magisterial  Minnie) and its most recent {…}

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CD Review: Pentatone’s ‘Il Tabarro’

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A cynical depiction of low-class misery and pessimistic determinism in the vein of Zola, “Il  Tabarro” may read as a departure from the sympathetic backdrop of Imperial Japan, the mining camps of the western United States, or Bohemian Paris in the 1830s. Yet its musical ingredients leave plenty of room for the elatedness of Puccinian melodies and despite the unusually {…}