Liberal England (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Thanks to the Wartime Housewife I learn the the upper Welland Valley has its very own opera company: Opera Minima offers a variety of opera-based events, including workshops, masterclasses and a range of style of performance from themed programmes to semi-staged double or triple bills, semi-staged with piano accompaniment. Performances take place in The Old Corset Factory...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The China National Peking Opera Company (CNPOC) is performing "The Water Margin — The Vows of Song Jiang and the Heroes of Mount Liang Shan Po" across Japan until Dec. 10. The style of Peking opera, which is also known as Beijing opera, has existed for more than 200 years as a form of traditional Chinese theater that combines music, vocal performance, mime,...
Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
In 2010, the Met will similarly replace its literal staging of Wagner’s Ring with a new production by Canadian director Robert Lepage, whose productions are the furthest thing imaginable from traditionalism. His latest, a Stravinsky festival at the Canadian Opera Company, fills the orchestra pit with water and makes singers operate puppets. Far from being scared off by such ideas,...
Charles and Fred (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Odessa in the sunshine! , originally uploaded by CharlesFred . We were taken to the Opera when we were in Odessa. There is a very beautifuil Opera House there and this was the first time that I have ever been to an opera. The opera was The Barber of Seville, by Rossini, performed by a local opera company. The songs were sung in Italian and there were...
Opera Chic (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
An inscription to $100 million gift-giver, David H. Koch, on the inside cover of the evening's program, first and foremost,...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
"The Tales of Hoffmann," Jacques Offenbach's bounteously imaginative mingling of reality and fantasy, stands as one of the opera world's most peculiar and wonderful masterpieces.
San Francisco Sentinel (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Baritone Marco Vratogna and soprano Zvetelina Vassileva co-star in Verdi’s masterpiece opening this Sunday at the War Memorial Opera House By Seán Martinfield Sentinel Editor and Publisher Photo by Lynn Imanaka San Francisco Opera presents Giuseppe Verdi’s masterwork OTELLO, opening Sunday afternoon, November 8th, with six subsequent performances through December 2nd...
Night After Night (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Bleecker Street Opera Company: L'Amore dei Tre Re at the Theatres at 45 Bleecker Street The New York Times, October 20, 2009
"Bank on California" Money Launderi (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
The Opera Buffs gives young singers more than applause...The volunteer group of opera enthusiasts also gives them a helping hand. Recently "the Buffs" awarded four aspiring opera stars of tomorrow $20,000 as Career Achievement Awards.... more
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Canadian tenor Ben Heppner will not be able to sing at the Canadian Opera Company's 60th anniversary gala concert on Nov. 7. The COC announced on Saturday evening that Heppner has withdrawn because he has not fully recovered from a viral infection he caught in October. He will be replaced by Mexican star, tenor Ramón Vargas, as well as additional soloists, including Canadian baritone...
Brian Dickie (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Last night's birthday concert for the Canadian Opera Company was to have been a grand Ben Hepner concert. Poor Ben, and how remorseful he must have felt, had to cancel at a very late stage. The magicians of the COC,...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | yesterday
New Canadian Opera Company music director Johannes Debus thought he was flying in for a party – tonight's 60th anniversary gala concert at the Four Seasons Centre.
maybe mezzo (Free subscription) | yesterday
... to many things. A big favourite, however, was Gilbert and Sullivan. Every year the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company visited the Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool and we would go and see them. Oh I loved those productions. The productions were great and and singers so adept in the roles. It was the time of Valerie Masterson , Thomas Lawler and John Reed who were superb. They were on the recordings...
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Fragments from Bernard Herrmann's Wuthering Heights will be performed today, November 7, in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: The Bucknell Opera Company will mark its 20th anniversary with a gala concert on Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Rooke Recital Hall of the Weis Music Building. The program, which is free and open to the public, is directed by Catherine Payn, associate professor of music at Bucknell....
Brian Dickie (Free subscription) | yesterday
It is always good to be back in Toronto and particularly nice to be here for the Diamond Jubilee celebrations this evening. I had an early start from Chicago and am feeling in need of a nap - so this is just a quick check in. I am in an excellent inexpensive hotel near the Opera and behind the Old City Hall - left - and its War Memorial poignantly on this weekend before Veterans Day sheltering...
