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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Music and VisionHans Werner Henze's love for Italy, and 'Gisella!' in Palermo, by Giuseppe Pennisi
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Violinist.comBy Laurie Niles: Well, the critics are not being kind so far to David Garrett in "The Devil's Violinist," the story of Niccolo Paganini, written and directed by Bernard Rose and just released last weekend in the U.S. The reviews are kind...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from - Classical RSS FeedGods. Murderers. Dictators. Ghosts. Bryn Terfel is used to playing them all, and more. The towering bass-baritone from north Wales, who turns 50 this year, is probably the best-loved figure in British opera today: gigantic in stature and...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukWhy brave the cold and go to the theatre, comedy cellar or concert hall? These days, for a growing army of arts lovers, the performers come to you Continue reading...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from PlaybillArts.comWhat shapes the breadth and scope of Cal Performances' programming?
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalLeclair, Marais, Telemann, Rameau, Handel: Amid the Charms of Nature, Juilliard415, Elizabeth Blumenstock (concertmaster), Jordi Savall (director), Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, 31.1.2015 (SSM) Jean-Marie Leclair: Overture...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from ArtsBeat » » Classical MusicTimes critics share what they’ve been listening to lately.
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukBenjamin Millepied announces new Nutcracker in his first Paris Opera season while Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui becomes artistic director at Royal Ballet of Flanders Continue reading...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from JDCMBThe late Christopher Hogwood's collection included 26 beautiful historic keyboard instruments, all of which are to go under the auctioneer's hammer in Bath at the Gardiner Houlgate auction rooms on 12 March. We can't help loving the verb...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
London Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster, Roman Simovic […] The post NEW TO YOUTUBE | Roman Simovic, London Symphony Concertmaster – Ravel, ‘Tzigane’ [VIDEO] appeared first on The Violin Channel | The World's Leadin... -
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukWagner’s Hans Sachs could teach today’s politicians a thing or two about the value of art, writes Iain Paterson, who makes his debut in the role at ENO this weekend Continue reading...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Music Genre: ClassicalHear the beloved baritone sing a fascinating program that mixes German Romanticism with a cornucopia of American songs, including a world premiere from Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Higdon.
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Some 25,000 seats at 13 preview performances will go on sale for 10 euros ($11) to opera lovers under the age of 28. It’s a bold assault by Stéphane Lissner, formerly of La Scala, on a potential new audience. He’s putting up ... -
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Slipped Disc
The latest data from Nielsen Soundscan make gloomy reading. After a Christmas upturn, sustained into January, only one classical record – the Ultimate Bocelli sold more than 350 copies last week. Behind Bocelli was André Rieu and b... -
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukSam Wanamaker Playhouse, London From the exuberant, punkish costumes to the spot-on singing, this production of Cavalli’s 1644 opera is a revelation Thanks to the aeonic timescales involved in opera-house planning, it is not usually poss...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from ArtsBeat » » Classical MusicThe society will present six complete string quartet cycles next season — including Beethoven’s 16 quartets, along with cycles by Bartok, Zemlinsky, Carl Nielsen, Alberto Ginastera and Leon Kirchner.
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Classical Music on Huffington Post
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Joyce DiDonato took a few friends to the Stonewall Inn, birthplace of the gay rights movement, to sing out against continuing prejudice. The song she chose was Dido’s Lament from Henry Purcell’s opera of doomed lovers. Watch.... -
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Classical Voice North AmericaLucia di Hyannis Port ? Bel Canto Madness Updated"> By Rebecca Schmid MUNICH – The staging, set in 1950s America, drowned in clichés, but Diana Damrau in the title role fused music and drama into a consistent whole. Every outburst and co...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukWigmore Hall, London The vocal group gave a clean and confident account of rare pieces by Michael Finnissy and Heinz Hollinger Continue reading...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Music Genre: ClassicalThe opera star, with a posse of friends, visits a historic gay bar in Greenwich Village to talk about equality and sing a centuries-old aria that still resonates.
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Slipped Disc
The history of Mahler’s song ‘Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen’ is particularly unhappy. A self-withdrawing ballad, Mahler gave the orchestral manuscript as a 50th birthday present to his oldest friend, the musicologi... -
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Slipped Disc
In a fascinating hourlong interview with Sibelius expert Vesa Siren, the Berlin Phil conductor describes the symphony that is least suited to his orchestra. ‘To do an accelerando at all with Berlin Philharmonic is really quite hard... -
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Slipped Disc
The Royal Opera House has announced five additions to the Jette Parker programme, which trains young singers and pays them a salary for two years. The five are a Russian soprano Vlada Borovko, Irish soprano Jennifer Davis, Australian mez... -
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Let’s not pre-judge, but if it comes to choosing sides… here’s the full story in the Times of India. Never a cross word between these guys in the picture. -
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Northern Ireland Opera has sent out an email to people who have bought tickets to its forthcoming Richard Strauss opera, advising them of a late change in the production: ‘The dancer playing Salome will now appear nude for the last... -
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Slipped Disc
We regret to share news of the death of Sir Martin Gilbert, Churchill’s official biographer, an advisor to prime minister Tony Blair, and an energetic historian of the Holocaust. He was 78 and had been in poor health for several ye... -
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Just in from the Gothenburg Symphony: On 1-2 February, the German film director Wim Wenders was in Gothenburg to record the music to his new 3D-movie Everything Will Be Fine (starring James Franco and Charlotte Gainsbourg), composed and ... -
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from JDCMBA friendly email arrived yesterday from the community manager of Forte Music Notation Software telling me that JDCMB is among 14 sites nominated for their Best Classical Music Website vote. The winner will be able to give away three lice...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicThe first Southwell Music Festival took place last year, in an around Southwell Minster in Nottinghamshire. Founded by baritone Marcus Farnsworth, who was head chorister at the cathedral, the festival takes place over the August Bank Hol...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicNew London Chamber Choir - photo credit Andrew Moss Judith Bingham, Giles Swayne, Roberto Sierra, Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Meredith Monk; New London Chamber Choir, Matthew Hamilton; Wilton's Music Hall Reviewed by Hilary Glover on Jan...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Peninsula Reviews
On Saturday, February 7, at 7:30 pm in the UCSC Recital Hall at 1156 High Street in Santa Cruz, the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival’s 42nd season open with a lively concert of exotic songs and dances from the birth of … Continue readin... -
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Peninsula Reviews
On Sunday, February 8m at 2 pm, Youth Music Monterey County presents “Diversity of Passion” with Music Director & Conductor Farkhad Khudyev directing the Junior Youth & Honors Orchestras and guest musicians from You... -
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalCelebrating Magna Carta. Preview of Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival (Wednesday 20 – Sunday 24 May 2015) celebrates justice, liberty and the lives of some remarkable m...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalOffenbach, Les Contes d’Hoffmann: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York / Yves Abel (conductor). Broadcast to the Odeon Cinema, Chelmsford, Essex, 31.1.2015. (JPr) Cast: Hoffmann: Vittorio Grigolo The Muse/N...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalHaydn, Schumann, and Schubert: Kuok-Wai Lio (piano), Benjamin Franklin Hall, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 27.1.2015 (BJ) Haydn: Andante and Variations in F minor Schumann: Humoreske in B-flat major, Op. 20...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalSibelius and Salonen Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Leila Josefowicz (violin) Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor), Tonhalle Zurich 1.2.15 (JR) Sibelius: Pohjola’s Daughter Salonen: Violin concerto Sibelius: Symphony No...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Music and VisionPoulenc ballet suites for piano, heard by Howard Smith. '... clearly at ease with Poulenc's soft-core tonality ...'
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Sinfini Music
Your guide to a voice forgotten for all the right reasons -
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Sinfini Music
No, we haven't had an operation, and yes, our voices have broken -
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Sinfini Music
The 17th-century cello is out on loan for their Elgar Cello Concerto -
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Sinfini Music
Deller, Scholl, Daniels, Jaroussky; a countertenor hall of fame -
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Meet the young British star singing Farinelli at the Globe Theatre -
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Sinfini Music
The Norwegian violinist plays Mozart's concertos 1 & 5 -
Tuesday, February 3, 2015 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source23 year old VC ‘Young Artist’ […] The post VC ‘Young Artist’ Yury Revich Awarded Coveted International Music Critics Prize appeared first on The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings &...
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015 from Violinist.comBy Robert Niles: In an effort to promote the coverage of live violin performance, Violinist.com each week presents links to reviews of notable concerts and recitals around the world. Jennifer Koh performed works by "Bach and Beyond" in r...
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015 from Sandow
What will the classical music world be like in 20 years? That's a question I asked my students, and we all might answer it. -
Tuesday, February 3, 2015 from Alex Ross: The Rest Is NoisePhoto: Israel Wright. It's difficult to bring myself to write this, because I do not yet accept it, but my close friend Andrew Patner, one of the wisest and most generous people I have known, died this morning in Chicago....
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015 from ArtsBeat » » Classical MusicThe Philharmonic will perform across New York City this summer in June, marking the 50th anniversary of its free series of park concerts.
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from BarihunksDavid Shipley British bass-barihunk David Shipley was one of five applicants out of 370, who were chosen to join the prestigious Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Applicants from 59 countries c...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Boulezian
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from The Ballet Bag
Maia Makhateli, principal with the Dutch National Ballet, comes from a true dance family. Her father runs a ballet school in the United States and... The post An Interview With DNB Principal Maia Makhateli appeared first on The Ballet Bag . -
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from parterre box
Mariusz Trelinski will direct Tristan und Isolde for Metropolitan Opera in a production that will premiere there on opening night 2016. -
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Pointe MagazineBarak working in the studio, Courtesy Anderson Group Public Relations
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Opera TodayAnita Rachvelishvili recently performed the title role in Carmen broadcast by The Metropolitan Opera Live in HD. Here she drops by for a little chat with our Maria Nockin.
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from opera, innit?Go get yours (Wigmore Hall and Barbican). I started with booking for ladies Roschmann+Uchida (twice!), Mingardo and Invernizzi, all at Wigmore Hall in May-July then St Matthew’s Passion (at Easter) and Il ritorno d’Ulisse (th...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from The Opera TattlerSopranos Kathryn Bowden, Glastonbury, Connecticut Cree Carrico, Detroit, Michigan Amina Edris, Christchurch, New Zealand Madison Leonard, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho Meredith Mecum, Hershey, Pennsylvania Toni Marie Palmertree, Fleetwood, Pennsy...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Superconductor
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from BarihunksSoloman Howard in Approaching Ali Bass-barihunk Soloman Howard just wrapped up a reprisal of his performance as boxing great Muhammad Ali in DJ Sparr's Approaching Ali with the North Carolina Opera. Howard sang in the world premiere of t...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Superconductor
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from parterre box
"Don’t bother with The Loft or The Boy Next Door : the most spine-chilling thriller currently playing isn’t on the screen of your local multiplex but on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera." -
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from parterre box
On this day in 1968 Golden Rainbow , starring Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé , opened at the Shubert Theater. -
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Adult Ballerina ProjectThe idea for this post and brainstorming session is pretty much completely stolen from Philly Love Notes, a local blog here in Philadelphia. But since I know that I really needed to go through a similar thought process here on ABP, I fig...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Ballet News | Straight from the stage - bringing you ballet insights
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from operaramblings
There’s 20cm of snow on the ground and more forecast. The groundhog consensus is a long winter. So, here are a few upcoming concerts and other events that may help get you through the rest of the winter. On February … Conti... -
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from operaramblings
Yesterday’s lunchtime concert in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre consisted of early works by Olivier Messiaen written for his wife, the violinist and composer Claire Delbos. The first piece was the Theme et variations for violin... -
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from BarihunksDmitri Hvorostovsky onstage and backstage for The Demon We have photos and we have the video!!! Yes, we have this sexy backstage photo of über-barihunk Dmitri Hvorostovsky as he readied for his role debut in Anton Rubinstein’s 1871...
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015 from Joyce DiDonatoIn addition to her highly anticipated performances at The Met in La Donna del Lago, Joyce DiDonato can be seen in recital and in concert this winter around the New York City metro area, beginning with a performance at Carnegie Hall as pa...
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015 from We left at the interval...Lyric Opera, Chicago, Monday February 2 2015, -11° C Conductor: Dmitri Jurowski. Production: John Caird. Designer: Bunny Christie. Lighting: Duane Schuler. Tosca: Tatiana Serjan. Cavaradossi: Brian Jagde. Scarpia: Evgeny Nikitin. Angelot...
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015 from BarihunksDavid Adam Moore in Winterreise at the Anchorage Opera Some of the most popular barihunks in the world will be headlining in a number of performances in the just announced 2015-16 Atlanta Opera season. David Adam Moore, who is currently ...
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015 from Opera: news reviews previews singers opera houses downloads CDs DVDsLang Lang, Anne-Sophie Mutter and Rudolph Buchbinder head Fergus Linehan's inaugural line-up
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015 from The Eyes Have ItBBC Radio’s Opera on 3 has several recent offerings which may be of interest if you are in the mood. They have been archived. Mezzo Kate Lindsey as Nicklausse in “Tales of Hoffmann.” (Photo: Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Ope...
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015 from parterre box
On this day in 1960 La Dolce Vita , directed by Federico Fellini and starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg , premiered in Italy. -
Tuesday, February 3, 2015 from Operagasmby Melissa Wimbish Here’s an ad from the back pag […]
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015 from The Eyes Have ItMany of us are experiencing a spell of really cold weather at the moment. TIps for keeping warm … Image from The National Trust Wear a woolen coat and huddle together. ~~Filed under: uncategorised
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015 from Ballet on Huffington Post
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015 from Superconductor
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015 from Neil KurtzmanOn January 20 The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden mounted its first new production in 30 years of Giordano’s opera Andrea Chenier. The reason for the opera’s reappearance was Jonas Kaufmann’s initial performance of the...
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015 from BarihunksRyan McKinny in Flying Dutchman rehearsals at Hawaii Opera Theater (far left and right ) and Glimmerglass (center) Back in June 2013 we ran some sexy photos from photographer Karli Cadel of barihunk Ryan McKinny in rehearsals for ...
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015 from parterre box
Thanks to La Cieca's extensive network of spies, she is able to present for your perusal, cher public, the proposal for the revival of the New York City Opera presented by the higher bidder for the company. -
Monday, February 2, 2015 from Opera TodayFlorian Boesch and Roger Vignoles at the Wigmore Hall in Ernst Krenek’s Reisebuch aus den österreichischen Alpen. Matthias Goerne has called Hanns Eisler’s Hollywooder Liederbuch the Winterreise of the 20th century. Boesch and Vignoles s...
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from Ballet News | Straight from the stage - bringing you ballet insights
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from BarihunksTom Forde in Tosca (left) Tom Forde has been doing a little bit of everything lately. The last time we posted about him, he was taking time off from his ensemble work at the Zurich Opera to play the 7-11 clerk Omar in a Doritos commercia...
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from parterre box
Defying a computer breakdown and an online outage, I fled to a smoky Iranian Internet café to upload this performance of Don Giovanni . It was worth the trouble. -
Monday, February 2, 2015 from BarihunksMichael Adams at a Barihunks lunch in Ft. Worth (left) Barihunk Michael Adams took top honors at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Gulf Coast regional finals held in New Orleans. The 24-year-old Texas native wowed the jud...
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from parterre box
On this day in 1933, the sisters Christine and Léa Papin murdered their employer's wife and daughter in Le Mans, France. -
Monday, February 2, 2015 from Superconductor
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from Taminophile
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from Superconductor
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from The Earworm
I spent a few hours this morning watching Richard Jones’s production of Wagner’s Lohengrin for the Bayerische Staatsoper, with Jonas Kaufmann in the title role and Anja Harteros as Elsa. I am not sure that even this production, which was... -
Monday, February 2, 2015 from Eye Bags[the frock might be Gabriel Eisenstein (last taken off a tenor by Rosalinde, and really, could she not have picked a mezzo instead?), but the tie is possibly Bonanza. Which is is Rosenkavalier scenario I had not really considered before....
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from Joyce DiDonato50th Season Gala Concert with Juan Diego Florez Helzberg Hall
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from BarihunksJames Newby as Eugene Onegin in London British barihunk James Newby is performing two very different lovers, both of whom don't see their stories end too well. He just wrapped up a run in the title role of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin at ...
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from Definitely the Opera
I have a confession to make: for me all too often best things in Wagner happen in the orchestral pit, under the text and the plots, in the score. The Ring plot, ridden with arbitrary cause and effect connections, intricate feudal-like lo... -
Sunday, February 1, 2015 from opera, innit?Not being an avid news reader, I only just read about the Netrebko/Gergiev involvement with Putin. Of course there are two sides to every story but seriously: why? I don’t believe that either of them supports Putin out of some stro...
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Sunday, February 1, 2015 from Opera TodayLyric Opera of Chicago’s new Anna Bolena, a production shared with Minnesota Opera, features a distinguished cast including several notable premieres.
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Sunday, February 1, 2015 from Regie, or Not Regie?If you haven't already signed up for Instagram to follow Joyce DiDonato (she's who finally drew me over to the dark side) here's another good reason to give it a try: Luca Pisaroni 3 hrs · I’ll take over The Metropolita...
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Sunday, February 1, 2015 from Opera TodayOn Tuesday January 27, 2015, San Diego Opera presented Giacomo Puccini's La Boheme. It is the opera with which the company opened in 1965 and a work that the company has faithfully performed every five years since then.
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Sunday, February 1, 2015 from Opera TodayLast year we tracked Orfeo on his desperate search for his lost Euridice, through the labyrinths and studio spaces of Central St Martin’s; this year we were plunged into Macbeth’s tragic pursuit of power in the bare blackness of the CSM’...
