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In a splashy new recording of Norma, Marina Rebeka “is doing something very untoward, and it appears destructive to her voice.” It has Niel Rishoi worried.
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Fabio Luisi conducts Jacquelyn Wagner, Valentina Farcas, Airam Hernández, and Goran Juric in a live broadcast from the Festival della Valle D’Itria in Martina Franca
Celebrate International Women’s Day 2023 with a broadcast of Bellini’s masterpiece.
Karine Deshayes, Michael Spyres and Amina Edris are featured in Bellini’s opera at the Festival d’Aix 2022.
A nonstop flow of COVID related announcements from New York City performing arts organizations has swept the city the past weeks.
Starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Joyce DiDonato, Joseph Calleja, and Matthew Rose, conducted by Carlo Rizzi. Production by Sir David McVicar. From October 7, 2017.
From 1994, the legendary Jessye Norman portrays an evening of operatic heroines, with pioneering conductor Dame Jane Glover and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s.
Starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Joyce DiDonato, Joseph Calleja, and Matthew Rose, conducted by Carlo Rizzi. From October 7, 2017.
Starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Joyce DiDonato, Joseph Calleja and Matthew Rose, conducted by Carlo Rizzi. From October 7, 2017.
Bellini’s bel canto tragedy starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Joyce DiDonato, Joseph Calleja and Matthew Rose, conducted by Carlo Rizzi.
That question hung in the air when Teatro de la Zarzuela Madrid revived Tomás Bretón’s opera Farinelli for first time since its premiere in 1902.
When I first heard of this broadcast my thought was to save it to celebrate Jessye Norman‘s 75th birthday in 2020.
The Grammy winning opera and concert singer is dead. She was 74.
In addition to Jessye Norman, this event paid homage to the shamefully obscure soprano Sissieretta Jones—once billed as “The Black Patti.”
If one looks at trends in the last 40 or so years, the most successful Normas are mainly those who’ve made not just bel canto, but Bellini as a mainstay in their repertoire.
This afternoon’s Met broadcast (starting at 1:00 PM) is Bellini’s Norma.
Sir David McVicar’s inept and dreary new production of Bellini’s Norma proved to be more satisfying than it had been on opening night when it returned to the Met Friday evening thanks to its new leading ladies Angela Meade and Jamie Barton
The performance and the obligatory parterre chat both begin at 6:30 PM EDT.
Summertime, and the canto is bel from Lyric Opera of Chicago, starting at 1:00 PM EDT.
Anita Cerquetti had one of the most remarkable, most brief careers in opera in the past century.
Braindead coot Norman Lebrecht gets it wrong again.
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