Opera is not one thing, as many people know. Instead, opera is an umbrella term for a large host of different categories and types ranging from the typical to the rather peculiar. While Mozart looks one way, Monteverdi and Wagner will look a different way. Of course they all follow the same trajectory, but their style has led them in {…}
Vincent Huguet is one of the most promising directors of today’s operatic world. Since his debut with “Lakme” at the Montpellier Opera in 2012, he has staged the “Mozart Da Ponte Trilogy” at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin—conducted by Daniel Barenboim and with the three shows performed over four days during the Berlin Festtage, Massenet’s “Manon” for Paris {…}
The Canadian Opera Company is set to present “The Marriage of Figaro.” The Mozart masterpiece will be performed eight times at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts between Jan. 27 and Feb. 18, 2023. The acclaimed Claus Guth production will be revived by Marcelo Buscaino of Brazil; the production had a previous run in 2016 and has also {…}
The Pittsburgh Opera is set to present “The Marriage of Figaro” in a revival production. The opera, which is set to take the stage between Nov. 5 and 13, will star Natasha Te Rupe Wilson, Michael Sumuel, Nicole Cabell, Jarrett Ott, Ricardo Lugo, Daniel O’Hearn, and Jazmine Olwalia. Antony Walker conducts the revival production by Stephanie Havey, which is jointly owned {…}
Opera San José is set to open its 2022–23 season with an all-new production of Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro.” The new production will be transported to colonial India during Victorian Imperial rule and will focus on sexual politics and class resentments through the prism of shifting power and revolution, culminating in a sparkling Indian wedding that will bring the {…}
The Glyndebourne Tour is set to return in 2022 with opera productions and a series of concert performances of famed choral work. The company will present Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” in Michael Grandage’s 2012 production as well as a new production of Puccini’s seminal “La Bohème,” as directed by Floris Visser. There will also be performances of Mozart’s famed {…}
On Oct. 22, 2021, Opera Philadelphia will premiere its 2017 production of Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” on the company’s Opera Philadelphia Channel. The production will be available for rent as well as unlimited viewing with an annual Channel Pass and features conductor Corrado Rovaris and a cast that includes John Chest and soprano Layla Claire as the Count and Countess Almaviva, {…}
(Credit: Ali Wright) Opera Holland Park’s season opened this week with the quintessential summer opera – a new production by Oliver Platt of W.A. Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte’s “Le nozze di Figaro,” a farce that is still as sparklingly inventive and effervescent as it was over 200 years ago. There is much to praise in this opening artistic salvo {…}
The Santa Fe Opera announced a digital initiative exploring the literary works behind the operas planned for its 2021 Festival Season. Consider the Source Conversations and Seminars start January 19 and run through May 20. The Consider the Source Conversations are free and premiere on the opera’s YouTube channel on January 19, February 16, March 16, April 20, and May {…}
(Credit: Evan Zimmerman) At one time or another, artists face this question: what to do with the physical possessions accumulated during their careers, especially if they might be helpful to future generations? In soprano Renée Fleming’s case, she decided to call on The Juilliard School, where she received her postgraduate training. “Most artists have a relationship with their alma mater {…}
In late May, the COVID-19 pandemic relented for a spell, enticing parts of the United States to reopen after weeks of lockdown. Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial start of summer in the States, was in full swing. 2020 had a disastrous start, but big cities like New York had the virus somewhat contained. Worldwide, the insidious threat of sickness and {…}