The annual Richard Tucker Gala is probably the event of the year to indulge your love of verismo staples and can belto screaming.
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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.
Angela Gheorghiu‘ s idiosyncratically alluring, sometimes maddening, always fascinating Floria Tosca inevitably became the evening’s unmissable raison d’être.
Angela Gheorghiu is physically in New York and is rehearsing and being fitted for costumes (not pictured) for her impending brace of Tosca performances.
One of the major complaints about the five year casting system (as well as the shared productions by different companies) is that operatic events are rarely surprises anymore.
No tracks available yet, but the Angela Gheorghiu Christmas album looks very, well, seasonal.
The Metropolitan Opera desperately needed a new production of Le nozze di Figaro.
Some interesting programming in Avignon next season.
With the well-known guitar player Milos Karadaglic, celebrating the decission of working together on a new, surprising and innovative project.
“Gheorghiu has admitted a romance with Cézar, a flamboyant Romanian counter-tenor…”
The Wiener Staatsoper should be a source of some interesting backstage gossip next September as the company presents on alternating nights Angela Gheorghiu as Tosca and Aleksandra Kurzak as Violetta.
“Don’t listen to a Romanian man who says he prefers a ‘natural’ woman,” says Gheorghiu.
This new DVD
release from EMI of the Royal Opera’s latest production of Puccini’s Tosca will no doubt be snatched up by hordes of grateful fans around the globe.
La Cieca has just heard that Angela Gheorghiu has become indisposed after the first act of Tosca at the San Francisco Opera.
The diva must be a Diva in Adriana Lecouvreur. Fact.
The guest soloist at the the Wiener Opernball was just introduced as “Rumäniens Antwort auf Anna Netrebko, Angela Gheorghiu.”
Yes, in this interview with Naomi Lewin, the word “fiasco” gets thrown around a lot.
Now, it seems, OONY is returning to its star-driven roots.
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