Seattle Opera 2021-22 Review: La Bohème

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(Photo Credit: Sunny Martini) Immense goodwill was palpable all through the theater on the opening night of Seattle Opera’s first fully staged live production in 18 months, Puccini’s “La Bohème.” The company adroitly produced its full 2020-21 subscription season through online streaming during the pandemic, so clearly everyone was ecstatic to be back in the theater in person. Lobby areas {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Carnegie Hall 2021-22 Review: Jonas Kaufmann in Recital

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Credit: Jennifer Taylor Way Back Before Times, in Sept. 2019, violin virtuoso Anne-Sophie Mutter stopped mid-concerto to confront an audience member filming during her performance. Her beef with the velvet-chair concert documentarian centered on rudeness, lack of respect, and the fleeting nature of live music. But since there isn’t a second chance to experience the magic once the notes have {…}

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David Rubenstein Donates $10 Million to Lincoln Center for Performing Arts

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David Rubenstein has donated $10 million to Lincoln Center for Performing Arts. Per a press release, the donation aims to expand the arts and civic engagements initiatives, specifically at the Atrium that features his name. The David Rubenstein Atrium has featured artists from around the world and commissioned over 45 original works. It has also been used as a polling {…}

Opera Meets Film

Opera Meets Film: For Love & Motherland – the Glorious Ideals of ‘Tosca’ and ‘Stalingrad’

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Following the signing of the Moscow Declarations in October 1943, an international agreement between the four key allied powers—China, Soviet Union, United States, and United Kingdom— formed to defeat the Tripartite Pact and restore global peace by proxy; Stalin would issue an emphatic, jingo-hawk address only a month later. Speaking at the 26th Anniversary of the October Revolution Celebration Meeting {…}

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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 {…}

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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 {…}

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Seattle Opera 2021-22 Review: La Bohème

Carnegie Hall 2021-22 Review: Jonas Kaufmann in Recital

David Rubenstein Donates $10 Million to Lincoln Center for Performing Arts

Opera Meets Film: For Love & Motherland – the Glorious Ideals of ‘Tosca’ and ‘Stalingrad’

Opéra de Paris Announces Cast Change for Inauguration Concert

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

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

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

Jonas Kaufmann Opens Up About Balancing His Career & Future Projects