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This may sound like damming with faint praise, and perhaps it is. The Listeners is a better modern opera than just about all the other ones we have been subjected to in Chicago since Covid. But...
As you might guess, I haven't seen it. When there are film references in operas or productions (e.g. Warlikowski's), I have to Google to elucidate them. It's funny, I always want to...
Television is a much better medium for adapting novels, at least if one wants to be faithful to them. Otherwise, one has to narrow the focus considerably.
I went to Breaking the Waves in Paris two years ago. 'Missy Mazzoli's score is anything but challenging, which may help explain its relatively wide acceptance. It has obvious...
I too heard Raimondi with Crespin in Tosca and agree with your assessment. A really beautiful voice and elegant singer. A good idea of his capabilities is provided by the Karajan-Zeffirelli Boheme...
I'm not sure how clever the Moby-Dick movie music was. I felt like I had heard it all before. The Ainadamar libretto barely qualified as such. The only reason for Nuria to be there at all was...
Interesting confession. On the whole, I'd rather leave than take any Donizetti, except for one work: La Fille du Régiment, the only one I go to with any expectation of enjoyment. But I...
I saw Kraus as Hoffmann in CHicago with Welting, MAsterson, and Zschau, plus Victoria Vergara, Florindo Andreoli, and Norman Mittleman. The performance was awesome.
Clever pseudo film music is exactly how I felt at the Met's production of Jake Hegge's Moby Dick. I think it is to Mazzoli's credit that there is basically nothing filmic at all...
Banas also appeared in several major movie musicals, including Carousel, Rock Around the Clock, The King and I, Annie Get Your Gun, Damn Yankees, L'il Abner, West Side Story, The Unsinkable...
Yannick leads The Philadelphia Orchestra, superstars Nina Stemme and Stuart Skelton, and world-class singers in a rare concert performance that reveals every detail and nuance of this richly harmonic score. Experience the passion and cold-hearted revenge of this scandalous opera. Get tickets now!
Yannick leads The Philadelphia Orchestra, superstars Nina Stemme and Stuart Skelton, and world-class singers in a rare concert performance that reveals every detail and nuance of this richly harmonic score. Experience the passion and cold-hearted revenge of this scandalous opera. Get tickets now!
Following the successful launch of the new regular feature The Talk of the Town in January, the team at the box is inviting contributions for a new quarter of operatic potpourri.
Following the successful launch of the new regular feature The Talk of the Town in January, the team at the box is inviting contributions for a new quarter of operatic potpourri.