The annual Richard Tucker Gala is probably the event of the year to indulge your love of verismo staples and can belto screaming.
By Poison Ivy
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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.
By La Cieca
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.
By Poison Ivy
No tracks available yet, but the Angela Gheorghiu Christmas album looks very, well, seasonal.
By La Cieca
The Metropolitan Opera desperately needed a new production of Le nozze di Figaro.
By Poison Ivy
Some interesting programming in Avignon next season.
By La Cieca
With the well-known guitar player Milos Karadaglic, celebrating the decission of working together on a new, surprising and innovative project.
By La Cieca
“Gheorghiu has admitted a romance with Cézar, a flamboyant Romanian counter-tenor…”
By La Cieca
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.
By La Cieca
“Don’t listen to a Romanian man who says he prefers a ‘natural’ woman,” says Gheorghiu.
By La Cieca
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.
By Patrick Mack
The diva must be a Diva in Adriana Lecouvreur. Fact.
By manrico
The guest soloist at the the Wiener Opernball was just introduced as “Rumäniens Antwort auf Anna Netrebko, Angela Gheorghiu.”
By La Cieca
Yes, in this interview with Naomi Lewin, the word “fiasco” gets thrown around a lot.
By La Cieca
Now, it seems, OONY is returning to its star-driven roots.
By La Cieca
The very brunette leading ladies of Adriana Lecouvreur, Anita Rachvelishvili and Angela Gheorghiu, flank the practically strawberry blond by comparison Jonas Kaufmann during bows last night after Opera Orchestra of New York’s season opener.
By La Cieca
In preparation for tonight’s Angela Gheorghiu/Jonas Kaufmann Sternstunde at Carnegie Hall, La Cieca invites the cher public to share your favorite memories and YouTube clips of Adriana Lecouvreur performances present and past. (Photo: Alastair Muir)
By La Cieca
It would be a shame, I think, if EMI’s stunt video of Angela Gheorghiu “in duet” with Maria Callas backfired powerfully enough to prevent serious opera fans (well, okay, let’s say “enthusiastic opera fans,” that’s more like it) from listening to the Romanian diva’s new CD Homage to Maria Callas. There’s a lot on this…
By La Cieca
The already notorious or celebrated or whatever it is version of the “Habanera” featuring (in alphabetical order) Maria Callas and Angela Gheorghiu: it’s been released, and you can experience after the jump.
By La Cieca
La Cieca supposes that maybe the reason Angela Gheorghiu doesn’t include any music from Manon Lescaut on her new “Homage to Callas” CD is that she can’t quite identify with the character?
By La Cieca
In what is without doubt the final chapter of their on-again, off-again romance, Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna are on again, she says.
By La Cieca
La Cieca’s spy in London reports: “So first Angela Gheorghiu cancelled this evening’s Traviata Faust at the ROH. On hearing the news, Vittorio Grigolo suddenly came down with a ‘chest infection’ —so the performance is going ahead with James Valenti and Malin Byström.”
By La Cieca
