critics and their criticism
With all the greatest respect for Jessye Norman as an artist, I do wish people would stop quoting her vain and defensive statements about critics as if she were some kind of oracle.
By La Cieca
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Opera Gems: The Art of Dramatic Voices
Presented by Grandi Voci Concerts, Matthew Laifer Artists Management, Jason Tramm, MidAtlantic Philharmonic Orchestra. Saturday, February 22 at 8 p.m. at Merkin Hall, located at 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY. More information.
An “opera critic” is still terrified of productions that closed a generation ago.
By La Cieca
“In none of this was he ever anything close to perfect. Great artists never are. Without their devils there would be no angels.”
By La Cieca
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Opera Lafayette Presents a Unique ‘Leonore’
Beethoven’s Leonore, the centerpiece of Opera Lafayette’s 25th-anniversary season, will be heard in a way no one has had the opportunity to imagine it since 1805. Conductor and musicologist Will Crutchfield has completed a score based on Beethoven’s extensive sketches for this performance. Monday, March 2.
That’s right, it’s September 30, 2019 and Venomous Fishwife Norman Lebrecht claims this is the first time in his entire life he has heard that some people might find Turandot offensive.
By La Cieca
The musical director of the Opera Royal de Wallonie at Liege is currently experiencing the early phase of a promising international career in music.
Leave it to Opera News to whitewash the revolting reactionary politics of Franco Zeffirelli.
By La Cieca
Congratulations to venerable Opera News on their new hire, art director Harvey Dent.
By La Cieca
Since his death, Mackerras has had not very much interesting to say aside from “Avenge me!”
By La Cieca
“Marlis Petersen, in her first shot at the role, is as complete a video Violetta as Rosanna Carteri, Marie McLaughlin or the young Angela Gheorghiu, and as riveting as Teresa Stratas or Anna Netrebko.”
By La Cieca
“A few weeks after the opening night of Otello in New York, The Washington Post convened a group of African–American opera singers to discuss the issue.”
By La Cieca
“It’s in the ‘Behind the Scenes’ section of the Lady Gaga issue, involving Brian Mitchell, archivist and occasional child wrangler with the Houston Grand Opera.”
By La Cieca
The winners of the ninth annual F. Paul Driscoll Awards for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence (or, as they are colloquially known, the “Opera News Awards”) have been revealed.
By La Cieca
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Opera, Food and Wine in Northern Italy – May 2020
The highlights of this nine-day, ten-person tour will be Montemezzi’s L’amore dei tre re at La Scala in a new production by Spanish director Àlex Ollé, Donizetti’s Don Pasquale in Turin and Weill’s Mahagonny in Reggio Emilia, plus the Pavarotti Museum in Modena. Visit: Rick Perdian-Travel & Music.
