Teatro La Fenice 2022-23 Review: I Due Foscari

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(Credit: Michele Crosera) After 1,100 years as an independent state, Napoleon’s invasion of Venice in 1797 brought the Venetian Republic to an end. Once the Queen of the Adriatic, with an empire extending throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, it has since been reduced to a small city in the north-east of Italy, with a declining population and overrun by tourists. Unfortunately, {…}

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Česky Krumlov 2023 Review: L’Echo Ravvivata

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On a bend in the River Vltava in southern Bohemia, perched on a high rocky outcrop, stands the impressive castle of Česky Krumlov. It was founded in the first half of the 13th century by the Lords of Krumlov. Although the dynasty died out, the castle continued to develop under a series of new owners, along with the small town {…}

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Death of Classical 2023 In Review: Waiting for the Barbarians

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(Photo Credit: Kevin Condon) Death of Classical (DOC) and The Alexander S. Onassis Benefit Foundation presented “Waiting for the Barbarians,” a one-night-only concert part of “Archive of Desire: A Festival Inspired by the Poet C.P. Cavafy” curated by prolific composer Paola Prestini and under the creative direction of Afroditi Panagiotakou. This extraordinary gathering took place on May 2nd, 2023 at {…}

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Teatro Real de Madrid 2021-22 Review: Le Nozze di Figaro

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Originally, the Teatro Real de Madrid was supposed to present a new production of Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro,” co-produced with the Festival D’Aix-en-Provence. But instead, the company presented the Claus Guth production from Salzburg. The German stage director is no stranger to Madrid’s opera house, having helmed “Don Giovanni” last season with the company. He is famous (or infamous?) {…}

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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 {…}

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Susan Bullock, Gweneth Ann Rand, Gerald Finley, Michael Mayes to Headline Theatre of Sound’s ‘Bluebeard’s Castle’

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On November 4, 2021, new opera company Theatre of Sound will launch with a radical retelling of Bela Bartok’s “Bluebeard’s Castle.” Presented in partnership with Stone Nest in West End, this production will reimagine the work as a love story between a long-married couple coming to terms with living with dementia. Sopranos Susan Bullock and Gweneth Ann Rand will share {…}

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On This Day: A Deep Dive into Puccini’s ‘Le Willis’ on the Anniversary of His Stage Debut

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On May 31, 1884 Puccini made an unlikely debut at Milan’s Teatro dal Verme. Despite an ad- hoc mounting of “Le Willis,” he gained the acclaim of both the public and critics, forcing the impresario Steffenoni to extend its run to three consecutive nights. “Clamorous success. Eighteen curtain calls. First finale repeated three times. Am happy” we hear the 25-year-old {…}

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Cathedral of St. John the Divine to Feature ‘Under the Arches: Music of Bach, Brahms, Bruckner & Rheinberger’

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The Cathedral of St. John the Divine’s will continue its Great Music in Great Spaces concert series on March 18, 2020 with “Under the Arches: Music of Bach, Brahms, Bruckner & Rheinberger.” The performance, which will be led by Kent Tritle, the director of Cathedral Music, Musica Sacra, will feature Josef Rheinberger’s Mass for Double Choir in E-Flat Major, “Cantus {…}

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Teatro Real Review 2019-20: Il Pirata

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(Credit: Javier del Real) The Teatro Real de Madrid presented Bellini’s rarely performed “Il Pirata” with three casts in an aesthetically powerful production by Emilio Sagi in what is likely to be one of the highlights of the 2019-20 season. While the headliners of the first cast were Sonya Yoncheva and Javier Camarena, it was the second cast of Yolanda {…}

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Teatro La Fenice 2022-23 Review: I Due Foscari

Česky Krumlov 2023 Review: L’Echo Ravvivata

Death of Classical 2023 In Review: Waiting for the Barbarians

Teatro Real de Madrid 2021-22 Review: Le Nozze di Figaro

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

Susan Bullock, Gweneth Ann Rand, Gerald Finley, Michael Mayes to Headline Theatre of Sound’s ‘Bluebeard’s Castle’

On This Day: A Deep Dive into Puccini’s ‘Le Willis’ on the Anniversary of His Stage Debut

Cathedral of St. John the Divine to Feature ‘Under the Arches: Music of Bach, Brahms, Bruckner & Rheinberger’

Teatro Real Review 2019-20: Il Pirata