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Verbier Festival’s Salome by Richard Strauss, Medici.tv’s There and Here
One of the great delights of today’s viewer technology is sitting in your living room, a cup of chocolate in your hand, and, before you, a vibrant, young orchestra, a brilliant and famous conductor, and a dozen notable first-class singers embarked…eroticism…genius –...
Lebrecht Weekly – Joyce El-Khoury, Michael Spyres (Opera Rara)
Now here’s a surprise. A new release from Opera Rara usually consists of some bel canto work that has languished forgotten in a vault since its premiere 160 years ago, and usually for good reason (as becomes apparent when you’re halfway through the unreviewable...
Tom Phillips: two skulls, 50,000 postcards and a book that took 50 years to finish
He’s now in his 80s but the man who painted Beckett, illustrated Hell and made art out of beard trimmings, is still fired up. As his half-backwards opera Irma returns, we join the great experimentalist for a boozy lunch of artisanal bubble and squeak One day 51 years...
Through Life and Love: Louise Alder sings Strauss
As well as acclaimed performances as Sophie von Faninel in WNO’s Der Rosenkavalier (which OT reviewers admired in Cardiff and Birmingham), Alder has sung Marzelline in the BBC Philharmonic’s Fidelio at the BBC Proms, performed with the Academy of Ancient Music in...
Star tenor Juan Diego Flórez releases his first album of Mozart arias
Acclaimed across the globe for the beauty of his voice, the emotional power of his performances, and his extraordinarily dazzling high notes, the Peruvian superstar tenor Juan Diego Flórez has so far in his career focussed almost exclusively on the masterpieces...
Emmy Award-Winning Opera Star, Michael Chioldi, takes on Dominick Argento’s The Andrée Expedition
VERMONT – Internationally acclaimed, EMMY award-winning opera star, Michael Chioldi, makes his debut with the Vermont Opera Project August 4th (Barre) & 5th (Proctor). Chioldi (New York) lends his rich, powerful voice Argento’s masterwork. Chioldi has quickly...