Teatro Real de Madrid 2021-22 Review: Le Nozze di Figaro

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Originally, the Teatro Real de Madrid was supposed to present a new production of Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro,” co-produced with the Festival D’Aix-en-Provence. But instead, the company presented the Claus Guth production from Salzburg. The German stage director is no stranger to Madrid’s opera house, having helmed “Don Giovanni” last season with the company. He is famous (or infamous?) {…}

Special Features

Holy Fire: Verdi’s Representation in McQueen’s Spring/Summer 1999 Fashion Show

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We are all familiar with the aphorism ‘clothing maketh the man‘ and its related parabolic lesson, regardless of the superficiality of the statement and its inherent inadequacies as a didactic phrase that can be really listened to in any meaningful way. The backward iniquitous core of this phrase most properly resonates as eternally problematic when reworked in George Bernard Shaw’s {…}

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Susan Bullock, Gweneth Ann Rand, Gerald Finley, Michael Mayes to Headline Theatre of Sound’s ‘Bluebeard’s Castle’

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On November 4, 2021, new opera company Theatre of Sound will launch with a radical retelling of Bela Bartok’s “Bluebeard’s Castle.” Presented in partnership with Stone Nest in West End, this production will reimagine the work as a love story between a long-married couple coming to terms with living with dementia. Sopranos Susan Bullock and Gweneth Ann Rand will share {…}

On This Day

On This Day: A Deep Dive into Puccini’s ‘Le Willis’ on the Anniversary of His Stage Debut

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On May 31, 1884 Puccini made an unlikely debut at Milan’s Teatro dal Verme. Despite an ad- hoc mounting of “Le Willis,” he gained the acclaim of both the public and critics, forcing the impresario Steffenoni to extend its run to three consecutive nights. “Clamorous success. Eighteen curtain calls. First finale repeated three times. Am happy” we hear the 25-year-old {…}

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Cathedral of St. John the Divine to Feature ‘Under the Arches: Music of Bach, Brahms, Bruckner & Rheinberger’

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The Cathedral of St. John the Divine’s will continue its Great Music in Great Spaces concert series on March 18, 2020 with “Under the Arches: Music of Bach, Brahms, Bruckner & Rheinberger.” The performance, which will be led by Kent Tritle, the director of Cathedral Music, Musica Sacra, will feature Josef Rheinberger’s Mass for Double Choir in E-Flat Major, “Cantus {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Teatro Real Review 2019-20: Il Pirata

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(Credit: Javier del Real) The Teatro Real de Madrid presented Bellini’s rarely performed “Il Pirata” with three casts in an aesthetically powerful production by Emilio Sagi in what is likely to be one of the highlights of the 2019-20 season. While the headliners of the first cast were Sonya Yoncheva and Javier Camarena, it was the second cast of Yolanda {…}

Behind the Scenes, Interviews

Q & A: Director Emilio Sagi on ‘Il Pirata’ & His Passion For Bel Canto

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(Credit: Javier del Real) Few opera directors have had as much influence as Emilio Sagi. After nearly 40 years, he is not just any other opera director – he is a brand and an icon, his work easily identifiable. He debuted in his native Oviedo with “La Traviata” in 1980 before triumphing in Madrid with “Don Pasquale” in 1982. Since {…}

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Theater an der Wien 2018-19 Season Review: Der Freischütz

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In non-German speaking countries, Carl Maria von Weber’s 1821 opera “Der Freischütz” is a bit of a seltener Vogel. In the past five years, apart from Matthias Hartmann’s memorable production at La Scala in 2017 and Mark Elder’s concert version at the Royal Festival Hall the year before, Anglophone audiences remain largely unexposed to this groundbreaking romantic German opera. The {…}

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Tiroler Landestheater 2018 Review: The Fall Of The House of Usher

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October saw the opening of Innsbruck’s Haus der Musik, containing two concert halls and a small theater for staged works. Costing €62.7m, it is a splendid modern building, with a large glass front surrounded by dark ceramic paneling. Sitting next to the Landestheater, with its ochre-colored neoclassical façade, dominated by its four Corinthian columns, and opposite to the Hofburg palace, {…}

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Teatro Real de Madrid 2021-22 Review: Le Nozze di Figaro

Holy Fire: Verdi’s Representation in McQueen’s Spring/Summer 1999 Fashion Show

Susan Bullock, Gweneth Ann Rand, Gerald Finley, Michael Mayes to Headline Theatre of Sound’s ‘Bluebeard’s Castle’

On This Day: A Deep Dive into Puccini’s ‘Le Willis’ on the Anniversary of His Stage Debut

Cathedral of St. John the Divine to Feature ‘Under the Arches: Music of Bach, Brahms, Bruckner & Rheinberger’

Teatro Real Review 2019-20: Il Pirata

Q & A: Director Emilio Sagi on ‘Il Pirata’ & His Passion For Bel Canto

Theater an der Wien 2018-19 Season Review: Der Freischütz

Tiroler Landestheater 2018 Review: The Fall Of The House of Usher