On Sept. 5, 2019, the Teatro Mayor in Bogotá, Colombia is set to stream Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” on its Teatro Digital service. The stream comes from an earlier performance during the company’s August run of the opera. The stream is set to star Valeriano Lanchas as Don Bartolo, Pablo Martinez as the Count Almaviva, Paoloa Leguizamon as Rosina, Borja {…}
(Credit: SF/Ruth Walz /Metropolitan Opera / Rossini Opera Festival) Stars, season finales, and some of the greatest operas in the standard repertoire are set to take over your weekend. Here are our picks for the operas to see this weekend. Luisa Miller – Salzburg Festival, Austria Plácido Domingo returns to the Salzburg stage in a concert performance of one of his {…}
Go big or go home. That’s one theme of Verdi’s “Falstaff,” and it is certainly the big idea behind the Ópera de Colombia’s co-production this week with the Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo. Directed by Alejandro Chacón, celebrating his 25th anniversary since making his directorial debut at the Teatro Colón, and conducted by Chilean maestro Rodolfo Fischer, the production {…}