kansascity.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Things are finally looking up for New York City Opera. The once-feisty alternative to its imposing Lincoln Center neighbor, the Metropolitan Opera, has an acoustically improved home, is selling tickets and getting very good reviews. None of that was true a year ago — or anticipated.
France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Swedish soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom has died at the age of 82, the Royal Swedish Opera announced on Saturday. She died in a Stockholm hospital on Friday morning. During a career spanning half a century, the singer performed regularly at New York's Metropolitan Opera and Covent Garden in London, and made numerous appearances at Britain's Glyndebourne summer festival. The Royal Swedish Opera said...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Things are finally looking up for New York City Opera. The once-feisty alternative to its imposing Lincoln Center neighbor, the Metropolitan Opera, has an acoustically improved home, is selling tickets and getting very good reviews. None of that was true a...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Director Francesca Zambello recounts the story (in both senses) of Cherevichki (a/k/a "The Tsarina's Slippers"), Tchaikovsky's only comic opera, which is based on a madcap Christmas Eve story by Nikolai Gogol. (Zambello is directing a new staging of the work at Covent Garden.)...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
With some input from assistant director Andrea Dorf (there was no official director) and ideas from several of the singers, the performance had a remarkable amount of what could be described as staging. This was not a stand-and-bark affair. Other than the presence of music stands in most of the scenes, it didn't look that much different from what you might encounter in a trendy, minimalist production,...
oboeinsight (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Dan and I attended San Francisco Opera’s Otello on Tuesday. You can read Opera Tattler’s account, and then there’s another blogger’s thoughts from the same night we attended. Hmm … as is frequently the case, I heard and saw something so different. I dunno. I guess I’m just blind and deaf to some things. I [...]
Civic Center (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The San Francisco Opera supernumeraries held a season-ending party at Fort Mason last weekend, and the evening ended with a very funny skit by Charlie Lichtman (above, dressed as a deviled egg). Charlie's only spear carrying this year was in Verdi's "Otello," which is currently running at the opera house this month, but the lighting is so ridiculously dark during the entire production that...
Aria Serious? (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
The LA Times Culture Monster is reporting the Los Angeles Opera has commissioned a new opera called the "11o Project" - an opera inspired by the 110 Freeway in Los Angeles.According to the Monster:"The 110 Project" tells the story of four central characters as it travels through 70 years of L.A. history starting with the birth of the space program in Pasadena's Arroyo Seco in 1939...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
NEW YORK - The marquee value could hardly be less inviting, but serious operagoers shouldn't deprive themselves of Leos Janacek's From the House of the Dead in a powerful new Metropolitan Opera production by Patrice Chéreau.
Brian Dickie (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Times Square 6.45 pm November 17 2009 I had a really long day - out at Chicago's O'Hare Airport before 5 am and finishing up at the New York City Opera for an 8 pm performance of Hugo Weisgall's Esther....
Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
From the house of the dead -- as I’ve heard the Metropolitan Opera grumpily described from time to time -- comes a great “From the House of the Dead.” OK, that’s a cheap shot, but a company generally eager to...
1490 NewsBlog (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
A portrait of Marilyn Horne is now on display in the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. The portrait by John Foote was installed in the gallery's "New Arrivals" exhibition on Thursday. Foote created the portrait of Horne in 1971 to honor her debut at the Metropolitan Opera the previous year. The painting was originally displayed in “Portraits of the American Stage, 1771–1971,”...
Curbed (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
"> " style="font-size: 9px; text-align: center;"> Click the image above to view the full photogallery. No wonder they're flying high at Lincoln Center: The 2,544-seat David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center has re-opened after a full renovation of the original 1964 Philip Johnson/John Burgee building. The interior work, by JCJ Architecture , was funded in major part by, yes,...
The Playgoer (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
-Actors Theatre of Louisville announces the new batch of "anointed" new plays for the 2010 Humana Fest - Fela 's strategy for weathering Broadway with no star? Star producers ! And their cash. -David Cote says some of the best theatre in New York right now is happening at New York City Opera -Tony Kushner gets...another prize ! - Elizabeth Vincentelli on Marsha Norman on how women playwrights...
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Renowned soprano Kiri Te Kanawa's Saturday-evening recital at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall was billed as her "farewell" appearance in Washington. Having effectively retired from the operatic stage after singing the title role in Samuel Barber's "Vanessa" with the Washington National Opera several seasons ago, she has apparently decided to wind down her concert appearances now,...
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