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Metropolitan Opera Doubles Down on Support for Ukraine

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The Metropolitan Opera is doubling down on its support for Ukraine. On March 3, 2025 during the opening night performance of “Moby Dick’ the company performed the Ukrainian National Anthem. The company did the same three years ago when the war began. During the opening night performance of “Don Carlos,” the company also performed the Ukrainian National Anthem beginning its {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Opéra National de Paris 2025 Review: I Puritani

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(Credit: Sébastien Mathé) Vincenzo Bellini’s last opera, “I Puritani,” premiered in 1835 at the Theatre d’Italie in Paris, in the same year he untimely died at 35. The story is set in England in the 17th century, during the civil war between Cromwell’s republicans (the Puritans of the title) and the Stuarts’ royalists. While the music sets this work as {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Latvian National Opera 2025 Review: Salome

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(Photo: Agnese Zeltiņa | Files.fm.) I’m not generally given to elaborating on opera plots; preferring for the audience to discover them for themselves, even where the outline of the tale is fairly well known. Alas, I feel somewhat compelled to at least superficially proffer some brief abridgement of “Salome,” if only to illustrate and accentuate the bizarre, outlandish and frequently {…}

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Royal Swedish Opera to Present ‘Eatnama váibmu’

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(Photo credit: Sarah Cooper) The Royal Swedish Opera is set to present the new opera by Britta Byström and Rawdna Carita Eira, “Eatnama váibmu.” The story of “Eatnama váibmu” (“The Heart of the Earth”) is based on the Sámi creation story with its current theme of good and evil, and interaction with nature. The cast features Katarina Leoson, Jan Jakub {…}

Behind the Scenes, Interviews

Q & A: Artistic Director Arvo Volmer on His Role at The Estonian National Opera

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(Photo: Rasmus Jurkatam) From the beginning, Arvo Volmer’s career has been closely tied with the Estonian National Opera, where he was appointed to his first professional post as its assistant conductor in 1985 and where he conducted his first opera, Händel’s “Alcina.” Since then, he has gone on to establish a successful international career, with a string of appointments, including {…}

Opera Meets Film, Special Features

Opera Meets Film: The Many Dynamics of Max Nosseck’s ‘Overture to Glory’

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The idea that opera is a controversial influence on society is not a new idea per se. Beginning in the early 17th century, the idea of “opera” in its formal meaning began to spread, and by the end of the next century, it had become a seminal part of cosmopolitan life in Baroque (then Classical) Europe. That being said, during the {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Wexford Festival Opera 2024 Review: I Pagliacci

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 (Photo: Pádraig Grant) Each year the Wexford Factory, the festival’s young artist program, produces an opera for the main stage, allowing its participants to gain experience in major roles as well as providing them with the opportunity to play smaller roles in the company’s headline productions. In previous year’s, the Factory’s productions have included successful performances of operas such as {…}