Grange Park Opera Announces Its 2020 Festival

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The Grange Park Opera has announced the 2020 Festival. The season will open with a world premiere of Anthony Bolton and librettist Kit Hesketh-Harvey’s “The Life & Death of Alexander Litvinenko.” The new opera will be based on the true story of former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned with radioactive polonium-210 and died in 2006. The cast will include {…}

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CD / DVD Releases – Week of Feb. 18

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This week, two new releases are set to hit the market. One comes from the Metropolitan Opera, while the other comes from one of the world’s rising stars. Here is a look at what we recommend this week. The Exterminating Angel Thomas Adès’ latest opera gets a release by Erato after its U.S. premiere at the Metropolitan Opera. The opera {…}

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The Metropolitan Opera’s “The Exterminating Angel’ Headed To DVD

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The Metropolitan Opera has announced the release of Thomas Adès and Tom Cairns’ “The Exterminating Angel.” The opera, which had its American premiere last season, is set for international release on Feb. 22, 2019 through Erato. The opera stars Christian Van Horn, Amanda Echalaz, Sophie Bevan, Audry Luna, David Portillo, Christine Rice, Alice Coote, Joseph Kaiser and John Tomlinson among {…}

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Santa Fe Opera 2018 Review: Ariadne Auf Naxos

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The last time Strauss’ “Ariadne auf Naxos” was seen at Santa Fe Opera in 1999, the world was on the brink of a new millennium. Nineteen years later, this masterpiece finally saw a brilliant return to the Crosby Theater, in a new production by director Tim Albery and set and costume designer Tobias Hoheisel. Though “Ariadne auf Naxos” is now considered one {…}

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Top 5 Operas to See This Weekend – North America (7/27-29): ‘As One,’ ‘Fidelio’ Lead Slate of Classic Operas

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As July nears its end, we find new companies starting to open their doors to new productions. Meanwhile some of the mainstays of the last few weekends continue to offer up productions that are simply too good to overlook. Here are our top five picks for the weekend, in alphabetical order by company. Candide – Chautauqua Opera It’s Bernstein’s year, {…}

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Plácido Domingo, Angela Gheorghiu & Rolando Villazón Headline Semperoper Dresden’s 2018-19 Season

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(Credit: © Semperoper Dresden/Klaus Gigga) The Semperoper Dresden has announced its 2018-19 season featuring a number of superstars and nine new productions of operettas, chamber opera, and grand opera. As always, the following will only cover the operas that will be shown next season and not the ballets that were also included in the season announcement. New Production Arnold Schönberg’ {…}

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Audrey Luna Makes Metropolitan Opera History

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Audrey Luna has broken a Metropolitan Opera record. According to the New York Times, the soprano gets to hit the highest note recorded in the Metropolitan Opera’s history. The note in question is an A natural above the High C at the beginning of Thomas Adès’ “The Exterminating Angel.” The note is the first sound that Luna has to sing {…}

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Metropolitan Opera 2017-18 Review – The Exterminating Angel: Thomas Adès Opera May Prove Polarizing Emotionally

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Luis Buñuel’s “The Exterminating Angel” is one of the iconic surrealist masterpieces of all cinema. Set at an upper-class dinner, the film analyzes how people revert to their basest of instincts when they get stuck in a room that they inexplicably cannot escape. The film succeeds in its ability to blend the normal with the unreal in rather claustrophobic fashion, {…}

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Metropolitan Opera 2017-18 Preview: Thomas Adès’ ‘The Exterminating Angel’ Makes US Premiere

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On Oct. 26, 2017, the Metropolitan Opera will present the American Premiere of Thomas Adès’ “The Exterminating Angel.” The opera is an adaptation of Luis Buñuel’s famed film that showcases a group of people unable to get out of a room. As the days pass, the tension builds but the people find no answers to their odd situation. The opera {…}

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Grange Park Opera Announces Its 2020 Festival

CD / DVD Releases – Week of Feb. 18

The Metropolitan Opera’s “The Exterminating Angel’ Headed To DVD

Santa Fe Opera 2018 Review: Ariadne Auf Naxos

Top 5 Operas to See This Weekend – North America (7/27-29): ‘As One,’ ‘Fidelio’ Lead Slate of Classic Operas

Plácido Domingo, Angela Gheorghiu & Rolando Villazón Headline Semperoper Dresden’s 2018-19 Season

Audrey Luna Makes Metropolitan Opera History

Metropolitan Opera 2017-18 Review – The Exterminating Angel: Thomas Adès Opera May Prove Polarizing Emotionally

Metropolitan Opera 2017-18 Preview: Thomas Adès’ ‘The Exterminating Angel’ Makes US Premiere