It’s the holiday season and that means that the Metropolitan Opera is putting on Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” in its English iteration. This season’s revival will feature a number of veterans in this production, as well as some new faces. Erin Morley will headline as Pamina. She debuted at the Met in 2008 and has amassed 87 performances to date {…}
Opera Vision will start streaming Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” from the Garsington Opera starting on Sept. 14, 2018. The Mozart masterpiece will feature Louise Alder as Pamina with Benjamin Hulett as her lover Tamino. Other cast members include Jonathan McGovern, James Creswell, and Sen Guo. The work will be sung in its original German in a production by Netia Jones. {…}
Barrie Kosky’s production of “The Magic Flute” is set to be performed at the 2019 Perth festival. The production, which showcases “The Magic Flute” alongside a silent film, will highlight the festival. Director Barrie Kosky’s interpretation of the famous opera has become a popular production at Komische Oper Berlin, UK theatre group 1927 and the West Australian Symphony Orchestra. Kosky’s production will {…}
The mass movement of people that is taking place, from poor countries to the wealthier countries of the West, is causing social upheaval and human suffering on scale which has not been seen since the end of the Second World War. Millions of lives have been affected by this mass migratory flow, some positively, some negatively. Earlier this year, in {…}
This review is for the performance on July 13, 2018. At the Prague Summer Nights Festival, a festival featuring young artists, the first few weeks saw a number of splendid concerts, workshops, and competitions all hosted in a city famous for its musical history. As the festival readied to draw to a close, it would do so by staging some {…}
The Scottish Opera has announced the 2018-19 season. The season will feature five staged productions and a number of concert opera performances. Let’s dive in. The season kicks off with Verdi’s “Rigoletto,” which will get its opening night performance on Oct. 18, 2018. Aris Argiris stars in the title role with Lina Johnson as Gilda and Adam Smith as the Duke {…}
Spring has sprung and special opera performances are launching at the Manhattan School of Music (MSM), while catering to an opera-in-brief community outreach program that takes the audience on a quick but enlightening journey through a specific opera. Back in 2010, MSM partnered with Anthony Amato, an avid maestro, producer, educator, and nonprofit entrepreneur, in order to create a concept {…}
The Utah Opera announced its 2018-19 season featuring two new productions by the company’s in-house Production Studios. The season opens on Oct. 13, 2018, with Gounod’s “Roméo et Juliette” with tenor Joshua Dennis as Roméo and soprano Anya Matanovič, who will star as Juliette. Robert Tweten conducts the production with scenery designed by Eric Fielding and costumes by Susan Memmott Allred. Performance Dates: Oct. {…}
“Opera Meets Film” is a feature dedicated to exploring the way that opera has been employed in cinema. We will select a section or a film in its entirety, highlighting the impact that utilizing the operatic form or sections from an opera can alter our perception of a film that we are viewing. This week’s installment will showcase Ingmar Bergman’s {…}
The Atlanta Opera will present Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” in performance at the Center for Puppetry Arts this January. The production will be part of The Atlanta Opera’s Studio Tour which will feature artists from the Atlanta Opera Studio. The performances will bring an abridged version to schools and community venues across Georgia and is set to reach more than 12,500 {…}
Cennarium is giving a massive gift to opera fans the world over. This weekend, in celebration of Opera Week, the streaming service will showcase four different works. The festivities get started with “The Magic Flute” for Children and “The Circus Princess,” both on Saturday, Nov. 4 at 8 p.m. EST. The former is a condensed, 60-minute version of the Mozart {…}