Opera - my/maSCENA

Browsing: Opera

Suor Angelica, Photo: Tam Lan Truong

Quebec Previews: October 2016

By Kiersten van Vliet on 1 October 2016 Baroque and Early, Chamber Music, Contemporary, La Scena Spotlight, Opera, Strings

Les Caprices de la Nuit with Les Violons du Roy On October 13, join violinist and conductor Anthony Marwood and Les Violons du Roy for an evening of exceptional chamber music for strings. The concert includes the String Sextet from Richard Strauss’s final opera Capriccio, Mozart’s charming String Quintet in G minor, and Schoenberg’s late-Romantic Verklärte Nacht. October 13, 8PM, Salle Raoul-Jobin, Palais Montcalm. www.violonsduroy.com James Ehnes @ 40 Continue the celebration of James Ehnes’s 40th birthday as he stops in Quebec City on his way across Canada. With longtime collaborator Andrew Armstrong, Ehnes will play chamber music by Handel,…

Princess Turandot (soprano Christine Goerke) proclaims a man will never possess her. Photo: Kelly & Massa for Opera Philadelphia.

Opera Philadelphia’s Bloody King, Bloody Princess

By Charles Geyer on 30 September 2016 Concert Reviews, Contemporary, Opera, Romantic

OPERA REVIEWS: Puccini’s Turandot; Third World Bunfight’s Macbeth (after Verdi) at Opera Philadelphia Opera Philadelphia’s Fall 2016 season fully exemplifies the company’s hallmarks – a commitment to variety and innovation, plus an enduring grounding in the classics. Besides the world premiere of Breaking the Waves (reviewed here on October 29), the season boasts a provocative and brilliant new adaptation of Verdi’s Macbeth by controversial and virtuosic South African theater troupe Third World Bunfight, as well as a glorious, quintessentially grand-opera production of Puccini’s crowning masterwork, Turandot. Puccini’s Crown Princess With his typically magnificent melodies, piquant exoticism, big passions and (atypical)…

Lebrecht Weekly – Pretty Yende: A Journey (Sony Classical)

By Norman Lebrecht on 30 September 2016 Lebrecht Weekly, Opera

The classical music industry does not so much promote talent as postpone it. Faced with a gleaming young star, the male curators of fame (all men) then seek validation in endless meetings. Agents and record producers hedge and haver. They deliberate and dine out, they call another meeting, and another. Then they write a budget. No wonder the business is in such bother. It is now seven years since the South African soprano Pretty Yende burst on our ears as winner of the 2009 Hans Gabor competition in Vienna. It is five years since she won every single trophy in…

Bess (soprano Kiera Duffy) realizes she must “complete the task” in order to save Jan. Photo by Dominic M. Mercier for Opera Philadelphia.

With Breaking the Waves, Opera Philadelphia Breaks Toward the Future

By Charles Geyer on 29 September 2016 Concert Reviews, Contemporary, Interviews, Opera

OPERA REVIEW: Breaking the Waves at Opera Philadelphia Brotherly Love, Independence, the Phillie Phanatic – this city has always been a hotbed of innovative and big ideas. How apt, then, that Opera Philadelphia has taken on a big idea of its own, having committed to the future of indigenous American opera with a 2011 pledge to present, every season for ten years, a major new American operatic work. More than halfway through that initial pledge period, the company’s “American Repertoire Program” can claim impressive achievements, including Dark Sisters in 2012; A Coffin in Egypt in 2014; and Charlie Parker’s Yardbird…

Austin Opera Scores Big Time with Puts/Campbell “Manchurian Candidate”

By Paul E. Robinson on 28 September 2016 Concert Reviews, Contemporary, Opera

The Manchurian Candidate. Music by Kevin Puts. Libretto by Mark Campbell. David Adam Moore (Sergeant Raymond Shaw). John Lindsey (Captain Ben Marco). Donnie Ray Albert (Andrew Hanley). Brenda Harris (Eleanor Iselin). Daniel Sumegi (Senator Johnny Iselin). Mela Dailey (Jocelyn Jordan). David Small (Senator Thomas Jordan). Jamie Van Eyck (Rosie Chayney). Austin Opera Orchestra and Chorus/Richard Buckley. Stage Director: Alison Moritz. Projection Designer: Greg Emetaz. Lighting Designer: Kathryn Eader. Long Center, Austin, Texas. At the height of the Cold War (1947-1991), Richard Condon wrote a remarkable novel, The Manchurian Candidate. Both a political thriller and a frightening scenario for a major penetration of…

Bold Programming at the Inaugural Vancouver Opera Festival

By Newswire on 21 September 2016 Classical, Contemporary, Multimedia, Newswire, Opera, Romantic, Visual Arts

VO PRESENTS THREE NEW OPERA PRODUCTIONS AND BOLD PROGRAMMING AT THE INAUGURAL VANCOUVER OPERA FESTIVAL Otello, Dead Man Walking and The Marriage of Figaro feature superb singers, stunning designs Programming also includes a new commissioned video installation by award-winning artist Paul Wong, performances by vocal stylist Ute Lemper and Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq Many events and experiences for audiences of all ages Vancouver, BC ~ Three dazzling new opera productions are at the core of the inaugural Vancouver Opera Festival, April 28 to May 13, 2017. Full-scale productions of Giuseppe Verdi’s late-career masterpiece Otello, featuring powerful tenor Clifton Forbis in…

Olivia Betzen (Manon) and Sean Christensen (Des Grieux), Manon, Photo: Mark Baker

The Art, the Craft, the dell’Arte Opera Ensemble

By Charles Geyer on 20 September 2016 Art Song, Concert Reviews, La Scena Spotlight, Opera

OPERA REVIEW AND COMPANY PROFILE: dell’Arte Opera Ensemble’s “Violetta & Her Sisters”: “Scenes from the Demi-Monde” (August 23, 2016) Massenet’s Manon (August 24, 2016) Verdi’s La traviata (August 25, 2016) “Chansons de Baudelaire” (August 27, 2016) Libiamo! Autumn ought not arrive without our noting that New York City enjoyed a mini-“Summer of the Courtesan.” For two weeks in August (the 13th through the 28th), one could join in a bittersweet brindisi, tip a glass to free-spirited pleasure, and shed a tear for loveliness cut down too young. The program was “Violetta & Her Sisters,” and it was the fruit of…

Aida (Anna Markarova), Photo: Yves Renaud

Cautious Choice Aida Pays Off at the Opéra de Montréal

By Kiersten van Vliet on 19 September 2016 Concert Reviews, Opera, Romantic

Returning to the Opéra de Montréal stage for the first time in a decade, Verdi’s Aida opened last night in a flash of grandeur. Set in a fictional pharaonic Egypt brought to life by the Romantic imagination, Aida is a classic story of forbidden love, jealousy, and revenge. Given the relative risk of Another Brick in the Wall (March 2017), a new commission from first-time opera composer Julien Bilodeau based on Pink Floyd’s seminal album The Wall, it seems judicious to open the season with this well-loved standard. While it remains secure in the operatic canon, Opéra de Montréal’s production…

XPND Capital Announces a Major Investment in Quebec’s Cultural and Entertainment Sectors

By Newswire on 15 September 2016 Newswire, Opera

Mishmash Takes the Stage to Shine an International Spotlight on Montreal Creativity MONTREAL, Sept. 15, 2016 /CNW Telbec/ – XPND Capital, through its XPNDCroissance fund, announces the creation of Mishmash, an experience collective whose mission is to promote the cutting-edge, innovative spirit of Montreal andQuebec creators at the international level. The first members of Mishmash are La Tribu, Piknic Électronik Group and Productions Opéra Concept MP—producer ofAnother Brick In The Wall-The Opera. Mishmash will facilitate collaborations between the members of the collective to offer integrated, value added experiences in terms of creativity, resources and international potential. “Mishmash will act as a driving…

Cerise Lim Jacobs, Photo: James Daniel

White Snake Walking – Don’t Tread on Her!

By Charles Geyer on 14 September 2016 Concert Reviews, Contemporary, Opera

OPERA REVIEW: The Ouroboros Trilogy (Naga; Madame White Snake; Gilgamesh) INTERVIEW: Cerise Lim Jacobs Caution: There are snakes on this immortal plane! The universe according to librettist/mythmaker Cerise Lim Jacobs is a treacherous, beautiful reptilian playground where serpent-demons shapeshift, meddle with humanity, instigate epic battles and hanker after love. It’s a coil of a cosmos, and we get to tour its every whiplash curve in Jacobs’ magnificent and extravagant new operatic magnum opus, The Ouroboros Trilogy, which debuted in a day-long performance marathon at Boston’s Emerson/Cutler Majestic Theater on Saturday, September 10, 2016 (co-produced by the dauntless and cutting-edge Beth…

Previous 1 … 60 61 62 63 64 … 71 Next

Current Issue

PDF HTML

Next Issue : February/March

Ad Deadline : January 24, 2025

Past Issues, Subscriptions, Advertising