Marble City Opera has announced a date and venue change for its performance of “Il Tabarro.” The first performance is now slated for June 21, 2024 at Sequoyah Birthplace Museum in Vonore, TN. The showcase kicks off at 7 p.m. The performancce was originally shceduled for June 22, 2024. “We were informed by our original venue in Vonore that the {…}
Marble City Opera is set to present a site-specific production of “Il Tabarro” this June. The Puccini work will star Kathryn Frady as Giorgetta; Eddie Brennan as Luigi; Jacob Lassetter as Michele; Chris Plaas as Tinca; Maurice Hendricks as Talpa; Ema Mitrović as La Frugola; Breyon Ewing as the Song Vendor; and Elena Klein as a Lover. Andy Anderson conducts {…}
Guild Opera Company is set to present a double bill of “Il Tabarro” and “Suor Angelica.” On Feb. 2 and 3 at River of the Valley in Canoga Park, the organization will showcase a production directed by Gabriel Reoyo-Pazos, led by music diretors Dr. Robert Chauls and Helen Wu. “Il Tabarro” will star baritone Carlos Oliva, soprano Yunjeong Choi, and {…}
The Wiener Staatsoper has announced a cast change for October dates of Puccini’s “Il Trittico.” The company said that Michael Volle will sing the role of Michele in “Il Tabarro” instead of Carlos Álvarez while Ambrogio Maestri will sing the title role in “Gianni Schicchi” instead of Álvarez. Volle will join a cast that includes Anja Kampe, Joshua Guerrero, and Monika {…}
On Site Opera is set to present “Il Tabarro” between May 14 – 17, 2023. The company will showcase the opera at the historic lightship Ambrose at the South Street Seaport, making the second time the organization partners with the Seaport Museum. “Il Tabarro” will be conducted by Geoffrey McDonald and will feature guest director Laine Rettmer. The cast will {…}
Photo: Heather Bobeck Giacomo Puccini’s “ll trittico.” Is there any other example of such a special trilogy of one-act operas in the canon? (One that comes to mind is a triptych by Paul Hindemith, though the work is rarely performed.) But “Il trittico” was written while Puccini was at the height of his talents, and he composed three one-act operas as a {…}
Opera Santa Barbara has announced that it will present an opera and flamenco ballet double bill as part of its 2021-22 season. The California-based company will showcase Puccini’s “Il Tabarro” alongside “El Amor Brujo” starting on Oct. 29 with an additional performance set for Oct. 31, 2021. “Amor Brujo” will star dancers from the State Street Ballet with choreography by {…}
(Credits: Maria José Siri official website / Chris Gloag / Zoe Cura / Georg List) Italian television channel Rai5 has announced broadcasts for the week of Feb. 14 – Feb. 20, 2021. The opera broadcasts will be dedicated to composer Giacomo Puccini. The stream on Feb. 14 will be dedicated to late soprano Mirella Freni. OPERAS The broadcast of Niccolò {…}
A cynical depiction of low-class misery and pessimistic determinism in the vein of Zola, “Il Tabarro” may read as a departure from the sympathetic backdrop of Imperial Japan, the mining camps of the western United States, or Bohemian Paris in the 1830s. Yet its musical ingredients leave plenty of room for the elatedness of Puccinian melodies and despite the unusually {…}
(Credit: Emelie Kroon) When COVID-19 struck a few months back, one of the final “live” performances to take the stage was a rendition of Wagner’s “Die Walküre” in Sweden. Among the performers in that production was dramatic soprano Elisabet Strid, who took on the role of Sieglinde. Strid, who has performed in such opera houses as the Teatro Real, Lyric {…}
(Credit: Candy Welz) Soprano Camila Ribero-Souza was born in São Paulo, Brazil, where she studied singing with Jocelyne Gallo, Edilson Costa, and Luiz Tenaglia. From March 2011 until January 2018, she was a member of the soloist ensemble of the Meininger Staatstheater. In February 2018, as a spinto soprano, she joined the ensemble at the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, where she {…}