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`Francesca' returns to Met after 27-year absence
New York City :: NY :: USA | 2 months ago
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Mark Delavan knocked over a table and swung his ax. "Francesca da Rimini" is not subtle. Riccardo Zandonai's most well-known composition returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Monday night after a 27-year absence, a schmaltzy verismo melodrama with
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Review: Two facile productions by Opera San Jose - The Voice outshines The Clown
San Jose :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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It is painful, this opera, with its libretto by Jean Cocteau. For 50 minutes, the jilted woman roams her apartment, tethered to the phone, desperately extending the conversation and gradually crumbling. Like reality TV, "La voix" -- which has one act
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Nashville Opera opens season with Puccini's classic tale of a courtesan heroine
Nashville :: ME :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Andrew Jackson Hall Nashville Opera opens its 2011-12 season this weekend with Verdi's La Traviata , one of the repertoire's greatest works. Artistic director John Hoomes is staging his third Music City version he's directed the piece six times
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The Electric Conductor: Riccardo Muti Returns to NY with a Thrilling, Orchestral 'Otello'
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 2 years ago
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On Friday evening, the conductor Riccardo Muti made his biggest play yet for New York. Mr. Muti is a brilliant, intense musician, and things are always accordingly brilliant and intense when he comes to the city...After a courtship in 2000, and then
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The maestro tackles a masterpiece: Muti discusses his CSO 'Otello'
Naples :: NY :: USA | 2 years ago
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After 3 sold-out perforamces here, Muti and musicians take it to Carnegie Hall John von Rhein Classical music critic ct-live-0407-classical-muti-20110406 This is the weekend when the lion of Naples meets the lion of Venice in the lion's den of
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Verismo Arias - review
London :: United Kingdom | over 2 years ago
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Anyone lucky enough to have heard and seen Jonas Kaufmann in the Royal Opera 's new production of Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur this autumn will know how compelling and refined his singing of the Italian verismo repertoire can be. This terrific
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Soprano Patricia Racette Coming to the Granada
Santa Barbara :: CA :: USA | over 2 years ago
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Soprano Patricia Racette Coming to the Granada Opera Santa Barbara Presents Top Soprano Racette with Orchestra Friday, November 19, 2010 Imagine, for a moment, that you're a young college student, far from home. You are determined to become a jazz
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Plácido Domingo's best recordings
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | over 2 years ago
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Deutsche Grammophon Placido Domingo CD cover Images Plcido Domingo Plcido Domingo's legacy of recordings is vast, encompassing just about every major opera in the standard repertoire, as well as zarzuelas, pop and seasonal offerings, individual arias
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A Diva’s Doubleheader
London :: United Kingdom | over 2 years ago
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The soprano Marina Poplavskaya likes to talk about how she sees music as colors. She is also given to morbidly poetic formulations like "Let the harmony penetrate you like a silent knife through your heart." She quotes freely from Peter Brook, Madame
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Six new productions in eclectic Lyric Opera season
London :: United Kingdom | over 2 years ago
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As Lyric Opera of Chicago faces a period of transition, it is launching one of its most eclectic seasons of eight works with six new productions and two company premieres. William Mason, general director since 1997, who has spent almost his entire
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