(Credit: Rossini in Wildbad Festival official website) The Belcanto Festival Rossini in Wildbad has announced its 2022 slate, with two out of three operas taking place in the Trinkhalle. The festival will begin with a concert performance of “Armida” starring Angela Meade and Michele Angelini, with five more tenor roles. José Miguel Pérez Sierra will conduct. “Ermione” will be presented {…}
(Credit: Gerard Collett) On the eastern side of the Cape of Good Hope, at the very tip of South Africa, sits Port Elizabeth, a city with a population just shy of one million people. The population size matters because it makes soprano Vuvu Mpofu one in a million, a ratio perhaps not unlike the shot she had at making it {…}
(Photo: Clive Barda) Anyone who was fortunate enough to attend a performance of Rossini’s one act farsa “Adina” at this year’s Wexford Festival Opera, or managed to catch the broadcast on RTE’s Lyric FM could not fail to have been enthused by mezzo-soprano Rachel Kelly’s stunning interpretation in the title role. Since impressing on the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme {…}
(Photos: Clive Barda) With a running time of about one hour 20 minutes, Rossini’s “Adina” is a little too short to justify presenting on its own, especially if the intention is to charge full ticket prices. But then, if it is going to be staged as part of a double bill, the question arises, with what? It is not as {…}
The Wexford Festival has made some changes to its 2019 slate. At the 2018, the festival noted that it would be showcasing “Der Freischütz,” “Adina” and “Don Quichotte” as the major works to lead the event. However, a recent press release, issued on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019, has stated that the festival will not perform the Carlo Maria von Weber {…}
For those who will not be attending the Rossini Opera Festival, Rai Radio 3 will present the premiere of “Ricciardo e Zoraide,” “Adina,” and “Il Barbiere di Siviglia.” The radio station will first present “Ricciardo e Zoraide” on August 11 at 8 p.m. local time with Juan Diego Flórez, Pretty Yende, and Sergey Romanovsky and “Adina” on August 12 at {…}