The Resident Professional Company of the College of Wooster: A Celebration of the Ohio Light Opera (Studies in Local and Institutional History, V. 5)
Luxist (Free subscription) | yesterday
Wagner's Ring Cycle has strained many an opera company's budget. Last year the Washinton National Opera postponed its performances of "Der Ring des Nibelungen" due to the economic climate. This year, a $32-million production of Richard Wagner's "Ring" Cycle is being cited as a cause for the financial problems that have befallen the Los Angeles Opera....
Clef Notes (Free subscription) | yesterday
A week or so after Washington National Opera announced staff cuts and a reduction in productions next season to help keep the finances in order, the Los Angeles Opera, which also has superstar tenor Placido Domingo as general director, went...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
Both companies grew out of the Amato Opera, a feisty, much-loved troupe founded in 1948 by the impresario and conductor Anthony Amato with his wife, Sally Amato. Mr. Amato closed the company in June, to the shock of many....
Show & Talk - New York Fashion Week Blog - New York... (Free subscription) | yesterday
Miuccia Prada is in town to work on costumes for the Met's upcoming production of Giuseppe Verdi's Attila . Paper reports that when Prada met the extras cast to play supernumeraries (non-singing parts), she looked at them and said, "I cannot clothe them! I need models!" "Page Six" reports: A rep for the opera company told us that casting "is at the discretion...
Andrew Patner: The View from Here (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Here is my Saturday December 5, 2009, Chicago Sun-Times news story on the ratification Friday afternoon of a new three-year contract by the Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra. Shows -- and three seasons -- go on as Lyric Opera musicians...
Created in Birmingham (Free subscription) | 47 minutes ago
It’d be pointless me adding to the mounting pile of gushing reviews this performance is receiving, so I’m going to float an idea instead (which should give you an inkling of what I thought of it). Graham Vick is the Artistic Director of Birmingham Opera Company. Year-round he works with the world’s major operas and returns [...]
Aria Serious? (Free subscription) | yesterday
Or perhaps not.Word this morning that Los Angeles Opera has received a $14M emergency loan from Los Angeles County to keep the cash strapped Company afloat.According to Stephen Roundtree, chief executive of both the opera company and its landlord, the Music Center, told the Board of Supervisors at its Tuesday meeting the loan "is needed now, literally next week."The...
The Daily Transom (Free subscription) | yesterday
Confirming that Beth Ditto is the only fat singer (fat person') whom the fashion world can abide, costume designer Miuccia Prada has declined to dress "curvy" extras in the Metropolitan Opera's Attila . Reports the Post : "I cannot clothe them! I need models!" she reportedly groaned. Paper claims the Met is now on the hunt for models. A rep for the opera company...
Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
Details of Los Angeles Opera’s financial mess are still sketchy, so it is hard to know exactly what the company’s dire need for an immediate bridge loan of $14 million from the county means in the long run. But so...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
Ten years ago, there was chaos and inertia. Now Britain's opera houses are world class – and its conductors have revolutionised their orchestras. Classical music didn't die in the early years of the 21st century, despite all the dire predictions. Many of its institutions entered the new millennium accused of social elitism and lofty irrelevance. But, 10 years on, much has happened to...
Leonard Link (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
Several years ago, an American Record Guide review led me to buy a recital disc by trumpeter John Holt, who is the principal trumpet player at the Dallas Opera Company and a professor at University of North Texas. I was...
Created in Birmingham (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
There was a good showing for Birmingham on last week’s Culture Show. It’s available until Friday 11 Dec, so there’s still time to catch it. Birmingham Opera Company were featured (at 11mins). Othello is currently racking up rave reviews in a manner approaching unseemly – 5 stars in the Guardian and Times and the Birmingham Post [...]
Vancouver Opera Blog (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
Photo by Tim Matheson Crew Mantle of CommandOpera wasn't the only one who flew out from back east for Norma. Music columnist William Littler shows us some east coast love and props for Norma , VOIS, connecting with our community and venturing into new and exciting territory. "In one grand gesture, a small West Coast theatrical enterprise became the first Canadian opera company to...
MAC News Network (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Microsoft has agreed to make some final changes to its web browser ballot system to accommodate requests, a tip indicated Friday. Following pressure on the European Commission from Google, Mozilla and Opera, the company has said it will randomize the order of the browser choices to provide an even playing field and will blank out the "Windows Internet Explorer" text in the...
