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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | yesterday
Founded by the star Daniel J. Wakin calls "the Lou Gehrig of opera" who "had a set of brass lungs," the Foundation was set up to seek out and train heroic tenors for big, tough Wagner roles like Tristan and Siegfried. But the "foundation has been inactive in recent years; its trustees are aging; the money was down to a little over a million dollars."...
Frozen Tropics (Free subscription) | 03/14/2010
This past week marked the start of the Opera in Cinema series at the Atlas. Here's a schedule of the showings and a little more info on the program : The Atlas Performing Arts Center and Emerging Pictures partner to bring the OPERA AND BALLET IN CINEMA series to Washington, DC! Exceptional European opera presented in HD! The Atlas Performing Arts Center is proud to present Opera in Cinema, a series...
Classical Iconoclast (Free subscription) | 03/11/2010
Rupert Christiansen reports on Kaija Saariaho's fourth opera, Emilie, in Paris. It's a tour de force for Karita Mattila, who sings for 80 minutes. But all that effort, for what? " Saariaho's mushy modernist idiom – try imagining Pierre Boulez slumming it on a film score – is peppered with pseudo-baroque flourishes from the harpsichord, as well as spooky marimba and electronic effects....
Music and Vision (Free subscription) | 03/09/2010
The sixty-nine-year-old opera singer has undergone laparoscopic surgery and is expected to make a full recovery.
The Arts Blog (Free subscription) | 03/08/2010
Tenor Placido Domingo underwent surgery for a cancerous polyp in his colon last week in New York and a full recovery is expected, according to a report from the AP. The surgery was laparoscopic (minimally invasive) and the malignancy was said to be localized. Domingo was released from Mount Sinai Hospital in New York on Sunday. Doctors [...] Placido Domingo’s surgery a success is a post from:...
operaman's blog (Free subscription) | 03/08/2010
Philip Langridge (1939 - 2010) It is with some sadness that I have to mention that passing of English tenor Philip Langridge, who died from cancer last week, aged 70. He was seen in performance as recently as January of this year, when he performed the role of the witch in the Met's production of Humperdink's Hansel and Gretel . While he made a name for himself in operatic roles by composers as diverse...
Vancouver Opera Blog (Free subscription) | 03/07/2010
Photo credit: Tim Matheson Tracy Dahl was born in Winnipeg and still lives there with her family. In addition to being a world-renowned coloratura soprano, she also teaches at the University of Manitoba. Opera Magazine has praised her "voice filled with sunshine, rainbows and laser light" and the San Francisco Chronicle finds her "bright, sparkling, and bouncing, accurate and winning."...
Intermezzo (Free subscription) | 03/06/2010
Tamerlano - Royal Opera House, 5 March 2010 Deprived of the opportunity to afford Placido Domingo a warm hand on his entrance, the audience at tonight's Covent Garden Tamerlano premiere applauded the next best thing. The scenery. The first object...
Clef Notes (Free subscription) | 03/02/2010
Around here, talk of a mega-multi-tasking musician usually means Placido Domingo, tenor, conductor and general director of Washington National Opera and Los Angeles Opera (from what I hear, he's doing fine after recent surgery in New York). But there's another...
Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword P (Free subscription) | 03/02/2010
Constructor: Elizabeth C. Gorski Relative difficulty: Medium-Challenging THEME: THE MONTH OF MARCH — 40A: Period described by the clues and answers to 1- and 72-Across (which are the start and end of a word ladder formed by the answers to the 10 asterisked clues) — word ladder starts with LION ( 1A: *"In like a ___ ..." ) and ends with LAMB ( 72A: *"... out like a ___"...
Opera Today (Free subscription) | 02/28/2010
Kurt Streit is singing Bazajet in all performances of Handel’s Tamerlano at the Royal Opera House, London. Placido Domingo, who was to have sung five of the seven performances, pulled out suddenly due to illness.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 02/28/2010
Authors reject Google The key players Google and more than 6,500 writers, including Zadie Smith, Jeffrey Archer and Jeanette Winterson. The issue Authors were given until 28 January to decide whether to "opt out" of Google's controversial settlement with writers and publishers. The settlement (which still awaits approval in the US courts) effectively makes Google immune from being sued for...
From the Guardian: G2 | guardian.co (Free subscription) | 02/24/2010
Will the celebrated opera singer ever perform as a tenor again? Age: 69, officially. Officially? There are persistent rumours that he's more like 74. Appearance: Cancelled until further notice. Why? The celebrated Spanish opera singer has just pulled out of a series of Covent Garden dates, where he was due to perform in Handel's Tamerlano, in order to undergo an operation...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 02/24/2010
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann, conducted by Met Music Director James Levine and directed by Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher, premieres on THIRTEEN’S Great Performances at the Met series. Joseph Calleja sings the title role, joined by Anna Netrebko as both Antonia and Stella, Kathleen Kim as Olympia, Ekaterina...
The Arts Blog (Free subscription) | 02/23/2010
Placido Domingo will undergo surgery for an undisclosed illness some time in the near future according to various reports published Monday. The tenor, who is general director of Los Angeles Opera, suffered severe abdominal pain while performing in Tokyo last week. When the pain lasted for more than a week, Domingo contacted his doctors. His spokeswoman, Nancy Seltzer, [...] Placido Domingo to undergo...
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