Continuing to Defy Vocal Categorization – Stephanie Blythe Takes on Gianni Schicchi

https://operawire.com/continuing-to-defy-vocal-categorization-stephanie-blythe-takes-on-gianni-schicchi/

Listeners can refer to her however they wish, but Stephanie Blythe has always resisted categorizing herself as a mezzo-soprano, an alto, a contralto, or any other voice type. In her mind, she is a “vocalist.” Considering her upcoming appearances at San Diego Opera, her second foray into a role outside her gender, any attempt to categorize her voice will be {…}

News

Jennifer Johnston, Miah Persson, Sophie Bevan, Nicky Spence, Roderick Williams Headline Leeds Lieder’s Spring 2023 Program

https://operawire.com/jennifer-johnston-miah-persson-sophie-bevan-nicky-spence-roderick-williams-headline-leeds-lieders-spring-2023-program/

Leeds Lieder has announced a series of recitals that it will be present this spring in anticipation of its festival, which is set to take place between June 9-17, 2023. Mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston and pianist and Festival Director Joseph Middleton, will showcase music from 20th and 21st century British and American composers. Audiences will hear music by Jonathan Dove, Benjamin {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Opéra National de Paris 2022-23 Review: Tristan und Isolde

https://operawire.com/opera-national-de-paris-2022-23-review-tristan-und-isolde/

This review is for the performance on Jan. 17, 2023. Having lived in Paris for a while, I can say I have more than once seen a stage director booed. Once, a conductor was vaguely disproved of by few operagoers. But until tonight, I have never seen a soprano booed so virulently as Parisians jeered Mary Elizabeth Williams’ Isolde. Why {…}

News

Obituary: Raúl García, Founder of Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá, Passes at 83

https://operawire.com/obituary-raul-garcia-founder-of-orquesta-filarmonica-de-bogota-passes-at-83/

Colombian conductor Raúl García, the founder of the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá and its leader for 23 years, has passed away at age 83. Born on March 22, 1939, he was also a mathematical physicist and became the first clarinetist in Colombia to perform the instrument in the Orquesta Sinfónica. He then became the founder of the Orquesta Filarmónica de {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Janacek Brno Festival 2022 Review: From The House Of The Dead & The Glagolitic Mass

https://operawire.com/janacek-brno-festival-2022-review-from-the-house-of-the-dead-the-glagolitic-mass/

(Photo: Marek Olbrzymek) Would any opera house be bold enough to present a work about the horrors of life in a gulag in which the guilty and innocent are thrown together to be abused, debased and left to die? Undoubtedly, the answer is yes! What if it were to be presented in a Christian context, in which Christ walks among {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Opéra National de Paris 2022-23 Review: Carmen

https://operawire.com/opera-national-de-paris-2022-23-review-carmen/

This review is based on performances on Nov. 15 & 18, 2022. In every opera house, there is always an informal smoker’s meeting outside in the entr’acte. It is the best place to “feel the mood” of how an opera performance is being received. Hence, I am there solely for journalistic reasons, and nothing more. On this occasion, I went {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Wexford Festival Opera 2022 Review: Cinderella

https://operawire.com/wexford-festival-opera-2022-review-cinderella/

(Photo: Padraig Grant) One of the attractions for the young singers participating in Wexford Festival Opera’s Factory program is the chance to perform on the main stage in an opera in front of a large audience. Last year, they starred in a very successful production of Bellini’s “I Capuleti e i Montecchi” which featured such artists as Jade Phoenix and {…}

News

Jakub Jósef Orlinski, Meigui Zhang, Nicole Heaston Headline San Francisco Opera’s ‘Orpheus and Eurydice’

https://operawire.com/jakub-josef-orlinski-meigui-zhang-nicole-heaston-headline-san-francisco-operas-orpheus-and-eurydice/

(Credit: Jiyang Chen) San Francisco Opera is set to open a new production of Gluck’s “Orpheus and Eurydice” on Nov. 15, 2022. The opera will feature countertenor Jakub Jósef Orlinski in his company debut alongside Meigui Zhang and Nicole Heaston. Peter Whelan, in his American debut, will conduct the opera, which will be directed by Matthew Ozawa and choreographed by {…}

News

Arizona Opera to Release ‘Carmen:The Graphic Novel’ in December 2022

https://operawire.com/arizona-opera-to-release-carmenthe-graphic-novel-in-december-2022/

Arizona Opera has announced it will release “Carmen: the Graphic Novel” in early December, just in time for the holidays. The book is a project of Alek Shrader, an operatic tenor and director who appeared in “The Audition,” a documentary about the Met Opera National Council Auditions, now called the Laffont Competition. Shrader served as the graphic novel’s writer and {…}

524 search results for…

Continuing to Defy Vocal Categorization – Stephanie Blythe Takes on Gianni Schicchi

Jennifer Johnston, Miah Persson, Sophie Bevan, Nicky Spence, Roderick Williams Headline Leeds Lieder’s Spring 2023 Program

Opéra National de Paris 2022-23 Review: Tristan und Isolde

Obituary: Raúl García, Founder of Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá, Passes at 83

Janacek Brno Festival 2022 Review: From The House Of The Dead & The Glagolitic Mass

Opéra National de Paris 2022-23 Review: Carmen

Wexford Festival Opera 2022 Review: Cinderella

Jakub Jósef Orlinski, Meigui Zhang, Nicole Heaston Headline San Francisco Opera’s ‘Orpheus and Eurydice’

Arizona Opera to Release ‘Carmen:The Graphic Novel’ in December 2022