Online references on Beethoven If Fidelio is not the finest argument that opera transcends the sum of its parts, what…
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Suggested reading: Silver Queen: The Fabulous Story of Baby Doe Tabor (1988), Caroline Bancroft The Legend of Baby Doe: The…
Suggested reading: Guide to Parsifal with complete libretto and a parallel translation into English by Andrew Porter For his last…
The Marriage of Figaro is a marriage of Beaumarchais’ witty, satirical play about the foibles of lovers and the presumptions…
La Forza del Destino announces its intended theme forcefully in its title, but it really doesn’t deliver. The libretto is…
Seattle Opera took the kudos in 1998 for its production of Tristan und Isolde, gloriously cast with Ben Heppner and…
The assassination of a king at a masked ball is an event rife with dramatic possibilities, so it is no…
All too often, theatrical works don’t come alive on the stage or screen, due to a lack of dramatic tension….
Is it interesting that what some consider the world most perfect opera, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, is about a consciousless cad?…
San Francisco Opera October 31-November 30, 2006 War Memorial Opera House San Francisco Nathan Gunn can give me a haircut…
Online references on Mozart Countless dozens of Ph.D theses must be written about Mozart’s The Magic Flute and yet it…
Suggested reading: Reminiscences of Rimsky-Korsakov (1985), Vasilii Vasilevich Yastrebtsev The Literary Lorgnette: Attending Opera in Imperial Russia (2000), Julie A….
By Giacomo Puccini Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica San Francisco Opera November 16-December 7, 2008 http://www.sfopera.com/ Paris, poverty…
It begins with murder and ends in damnation: Mozart’s rather bleak follow up to The Marriage of Figaro, and is,…