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Ariadne auf Naxos at the Berkshire Opera Festival: a Girl, a God, a Bunch of Gags
REVIEW: Richard Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos in a new production at the Berkshire Opera Festival. It’s a backstage story as only Richard Strauss and his invaluable and (more or less) constant collaborator Hugo von Hofmannsthal could tell it. The Berkshire Opera...
Cadogan Hall and soprano Nazan Fikret present Grenfell Tower Benefit Concert
BBC Radio 3’s Petroc Trelawny presents a concert in two parts on 17 September at 6pm at Cadogan Hall. The first half will include solo songs by Schubert, Schumann, Strauss and Quilter, followed by the Super Orchestra, conducted by Edward Gardner, accompanying Ailish...
10 Canadian Opera Singers making Canada Proud in 2017-2018
The 2017-18 opera season is nearly upon us and, yet again, Canadian singers will be out there, making us proud on stages around the world. We asked Toronto-based arts journalist Catherine Kustanczy, who regularly travels abroad to attend...
Edinburgh festival 2017: the shows we recommend
Plan your viewing with our list of top shows, ordered by start time. This page will be updated throughout the festival Continue reading... Source: Opera News from the UK Guardian
Adelaide festival 2018 opera headliner is Brett Dean and Neil Armfield’s Hamlet
Following the success of Barrie Kosky’s Saul, Adelaide festival continues its Glyndebourne partnership with another Australian creative team Internationally renowned Australian opera talent will again headline Adelaide festival in the form of composer Brett Dean’s...
Tapestry Opera Presents the World Premiere of Bandits in the Valley at Toronto’s Historic Todmorden Mills
-A free, all-ages opera for the community, weekends in September- TORONTO, ON: Canada’s leading contemporary opera company, Tapestry Opera, in conjunction with the Toronto Arts Council and the Todmorden Mills Heritage Site, is pleased to announce the world premiere...
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...