Opéra de Paris Announces Cast Change for Inauguration Concert

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The Opéra de Paris has announced a cast change for its inaugural concert. The company noted that Diana Damrau is currently indisposed and has been forced to cancel her participation in the Inaugural Concert. As a result, she will be replaced by Jacquelyn Wagner, who will sing the parts of Alice Ford in “Falstaff” and the Marschallin in “Der Rosenkavalier.” Wagner {…}

News

Central City Opera Announces 4th Annual Central City Plein Air Festival

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The Central City Opera in Colorado has announced that 20 Plein Air Artists will be painting the scenery around the Opera House at 124 Eureka Street in Central City throughout the Sept. 24 weekend. The Plein Air Festival will showcase historic tours, a kid-friendly crafts table, outdoor music performances, and art around every corner. The festival begins with the Festival {…}

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 {…}

Editorials, Reviews

Editorial: Predictions — The Fight Between Local 802 and the Met Spreads Further Than the Orchestra Pit

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For over a month, there have been no big headlines about the Metropolitan Opera in news. Sure, there are cast changes and the likes, but that’s kind of business as usual per the Met. And it creates a sense of progress toward the opening of the new season. But this apparent progress or achievement, which during the summer was routinely {…}

Special Features

Jonas Kaufmann Opens Up About Balancing His Career & Future Projects

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On July 19, German tenor Jonas Kaufmann joined the cast of “Tosca” at the Teatro Real de Madrid for two performances. It was the first time since 1999 that he was performing an opera in Madrid so there was great anticipation. Kaufmann given two solo concerts in past seasons but hadn’t sung an opera. The tenor recalled that 1999 experience {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Bayerische Staatsoper 2020-21 Review: Tristan und Isolde

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(Credit© W. Hösl) Richard Wagner thought that if people ever got to see an ideal performance of his opera “Tristan und Isolde” it would drive them mad. In the case of Munich’s new Tristan, at the Bayerische Staatsoper, where the work premiered in 1865, the madness began well before opening night. Since March 2020, when a new Tristan was announced {…}

News

Opera Australia’s Winter Season Under Review after Positive COVID-19 Test

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Opera Australia has postponed several performances after a construction worker at the Sydney Opera House tested positive for COVID-19. The company announced Wednesday that dozens of musicians and performers associated with Opera Australia were forced into self-isolation following the positive test. The company’s winter season is now under review as Sydney’s lockdown was also extended one week. The company noted {…}

Stage Spotlight

Celebrating Native American Music in Montana – Intermountain Opera Bozeman’s Interim Artistic Director Michael Sakir & Soprano Kirsten Kunkle on ‘Circle of Resilience’

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(Photos: Gillian Riesen; Intermountain Opera Bozeman; Jason Dick) Montana, where Grizzly Bear wade in chilly rivers fed by snowmelt from mountaintops and gobble up Blackspotted Cutthroat Trout. Fly-fishers do much the same but with gentle whips of line. It’s “The Treasure State,” whose motto is “Oro y Plata (Gold and Silver).” The treasure nowadays is the grandeur of the Rocky {…}

Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: Cecilia Violetta López on Opera Colorado, Latin Music & ‘Mi Camino’

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In 2017 Cecilia Violetta López took audiences by storm when she performed Desdemona with LoftOpera. She was an artist on the rise who had so much to offer with her artistry, and has since become a leading soloist with such companies as Opera Idaho, Austin Opera, Madison Opera, and Opera Orlando. López has also become a huge advocate for Latin {…}

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