Opera UCT is set to present the world premiere staging of Gaetano Donizetti’s “lost” opera, “Dalinda” at the Baxter Theatre, Cape Town. The performances are set to take place between Sept. 4 and 8, 2024, and will be the first time in history that this opera will be performed in full. “Dalinda” was rediscovered in 2019 and meticulously reconstructed. It {…}
Welcome back for this week’s look at the latest CD and DVD releases in the opera world. This week, audiences will get to hear the latest from four of the world’s great divas in very different works. There are two rare bel canto works worth checking out as well. Richard Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben/Gustav Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder The Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal {…}
This must be a musicologist’s dream: while digging around in musty books in the quiet atmosphere of the library of a music conservatory, to come upon scores by Gaetano Donizetti and realizing that this is not yet another version of “Lucrezia Borgia” (there had been but, in fact, a different opera. Similar in plot and with music passages strongly reminiscent {…}
This week the Konzerthaus Berlin is set to world premiere Donizetti’s “Dalinda,” a reworked version of the famed “Lucrezia Borgia.” The opera, which has been restored in a new version by Eleonora Di Cintio, will star a cast of Bel Canto singers including the acclaimed tenor Luciano Ganci. Ganci will return to the Konzerthaus for the first time in five {…}
The Berliner Operngruppe is set to present the world premiere of Donizetti’s “Dalinda” starting on May 14, 2023 at the Konzerthaus Berlin. The opera will star Lidia Fridman in the title role. She will be joined by Yajie Zhang, Luciano Ganci, Paolo Bordogna, David Ostrek, Andrés Moreno García, Kangyoon Shine Lee, Fermin Basterra, Egor Sergeev, and Kento Uchiyama. Felix Krieger {…}