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Special Features

How The Beijing Music Festival Presented the First Musical Theatre Piece In Its History

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What do opera and musical theatre have in common? Do they belong in the same companies and spaces? Are they compatible? These are questions that the classical music world has been contending with for the past decades. In a push to expand an audience and bring younger audiences, such companies as the Lyric Opera of Chicago and other smaller companies {…}

Special Features

Tenor Brian Jagde’s Four Favorite Interpreters of ‘Tosca’s’ Cavaradossi

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Brian Jagde is one of today’s rising stars in the opera world and his powerful tenor has obtained raves. Today he is in high demand around the world and one of the roles that he has garnered him attention is that of Cavaradossi. Currently starring in San Francisco Opera’s new production of “Tosca,” Jagde will break the record this season {…}

Opera Wiki

Artist Profile: Ruggero Raimondi, Famed Bass-Baritone Turned Movie Star

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As far as bass-baritones go, few have the magnetic personality or onstage charisma of Italian Ruggero Raimondi. Born on Oct. 3, 1941, Raimondi was prodigious, his voice already mature by his teen years. At 15, he auditioned for maestro Francesco Molinari-Pradelli and a year later was admitted into the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan. He would win the National Competition {…}

IndieOpera

CamerataWorks Releases Latest Episode of Opera Short Film [Watch]

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New Camerata Opera’s production company CamerataWorks has released its latest short film, which is a prequel to a previous project. “The Prince von Pappenschmear: A Prequel” comes over one year after the first episode of the opera series entitled “The Prince von Pappenschmear: Chapter One.” The works are written by composer Peter Engelbert and librettist Adam Laten Willson specifically for {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Metropolitan Opera 2018-19 Review: Samson et Dalila

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Over the last few weeks, the Metropolitan Opera has hit one home run after another with news of a more accessible schedule structure as well as support for newer operas in new locations over coming seasons. These major stories have emphasized a new era, so to speak, for the company, and the organization has even baptized that progress with a {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

San Francisco Opera 2018-19 Review: Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci

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San Francisco Opera’s double bill of “Cavalleria Rusticana” and “Pagliacci” is fully set in the same neighborhood of La Boca in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It opens with women shaking bedding from the windows, waiters straightening up the chairs from last night’s wine, lovers snatching their last kiss. The characters then emerged from it and sang the story; at the end, {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

San Francisco Opera 2018-19 Review: Roberto Devereux

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“I saw the Queen of England weep!” It is true, at least in the brilliant portrayal of Elizabeth I by soprano, Sondra Radvanovsky, in the San Francisco Opera’s production of “Roberto Devereaux.” In Donizetti’s third and most popular Tudor Queen opera (“Anna Bolena” and “Maria Stuarda” being the other two), Radvanovsky sings with moving beauty as she dramatized the role {…}