New National Theatre, Tokyo Launches New Streaming Platform

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(Credit: TERASHI Masahiko) New National Theatre, Tokyo has announced the launch of its own new, online streaming platform NNTT Stream. The platform offers recordings of opera, ballet, dance, and drama, and is currently available for free and without registration. On November 26, the organization will stream its “New Opera with Children and an Android: Super Angels,” which was staged in {…}

Special Features

Page to Opera Stage: Pushkin’s Tragicomedy & Tchaikovsky’s Melodrama in ‘The Queen of Spades’

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“Page to Opera Stage” looks at stories – real-life or fiction, old and new – that have inspired operas, and the ways these narratives have been edited and dramatized to fit a new medium. This month, we return to Pushkin and Tchaikovsky with “The Queen of Spades”, where an opera has expanded the original novella, radically altering characters and atmosphere {…}

News, Streaming

OperaVision Announces World Opera Day Programming

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OperaVision will celebrate World Opera Day on Oct. 25 in the company of young artists from seven opera studios. The streaming platform will present filmed performances and fly-on-the-wall documentaries from Tokyo, Paris, London, Hannover, Amsterdam, Warsaw, and Rome. Companies that will participate include the New National Theatre Tokyo, Opéra Comique Paris, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Staatsoper Hannover, Dutch National {…}

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 {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Grange Park Opera 2021 Review: La Bohème

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Grange Park Opera, the brainchild of go-getting impresario Wasfi Kani, has taken an energetic approach to the COVID-19 pandemic over the last year, seeing opportunity in challenge. They commissioned and performed a brand new work last summer on the hoof, “A Feast in a time of Plague;” they have offered filmed versions of Britten’s “Owen Wingrave” and Ravel’s “L’heure Espagnole.” {…}

IndieOpera, Streaming

New York Opera Festival Announces 2021 Streaming Slate

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*** Written in collaboration with Francisco Salazar.*** The New York Opera Festival has announced its 2021 lineup, which will take place virtually in light of continued concerns over COVID-19. The New York Opera Fest will present a Kick-Off Event and NYOA Service Awards. The virtual event will feature both live and pre-recorded performances from New York City’s opera companies. In {…}

Editorials, Opera Meets Film

Opera Meets Film: How ‘The Pearl Fishers’ Love Duet in ‘Little Women (1994)’ Highlights Hollywood’s Questionable Embellishment Habits

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Throughout its history, the $244.4 billion film industry, has relied heavily on historical embellishment for its “narrative spice,” these choices often creating ethical challenges. For example, despite being crowned Best Picture at the 2013 Oscar Awards, the harrowing film “Argo,” a tale about the ersatz American film crew tasked with saving six captive Americans from Iran, is chock-full of historical {…}

News

Obituary: Opera Memphis Favorite Chelsea Miller Dies

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(Credit: Stephen Dillon) Soprano Chelsea Miller has died of cancer. Miller studied at Louisiana State University and the University of Memphis and went on to perform in multiple competitions including the National Opera Association’s annual voice competition where she placed second and was a 2014 regional finalist of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. She went on to become a {…}