Blood is the image that dominates Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, a one-act opera written by composer Bela Bartk with libretto in…
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www.dc-opera.org/ British composer Nicholas Maw’s impressive full-length opera Sophie’s Choice, based on William Styron’s well-known novel by the same title,…
Suggested reading: Giacomo Puccini (1997), Conrad Wilson Puccini (1996), Peter Southwell-Sander Nineteenth Century Italian Opera from Rossini to Puccini (1995),…
Idomeneo VHS Idomeneo DVD 1982 Metropolitan Opera production with Pavarotti Suggested reading: Mozart: A Life 1996, Maynard Solomon Letters of…
Handel wrote Rinaldo to knock ’em dead. It was 1710, and he had just arrived in London with a reputation…
By Pietro Mascagni and Ruggero Leoncavallo (respectively) Houston Grand Opera Wortham Center, Houston, TX October 2008 http://www.houstongrandopera.org/ Maria Markina and…
By Gaetano Donizetti Libretto by Felice Romani San Francisco Opera October 29-November 26, 2008 Conducted by Bruno Campanella Directed by…
Streetcar 1: L-R: Orla Boylan (sings Blanche BuBois) & Sam McElroy (sings Stanley Kowalski) PHOTOGRAPHY BY PAT REDMOND Opera Ireland…
Elizabeth Futral plays the role of Princess Yueyang in “The First Emperor” during the final dress rehearsal Monday, Dec. 18,…
Streetcar 1: L-R: Orla Boylan (sings Blanche BuBois) & Sam McElroy (sings Stanley Kowalski) PHOTOGRAPHY BY PAT REDMOND Opera Ireland…
Agrippina was only Handel’s third full-length opera. Composed for the sophisticated opera audience of Venice at the end of Handel’s…
Mexico City, Opera Nacional de Mexico September 21 – October 1 The scene is a dusty street in nineteenth-century Seville,…
Saul By George Frideric Handel. Vocal score. See more info… H�ndel turned to oratorio from opera in response to the…
Why should musicals own the review format? Anthony Freud at Houston Grand Opera has come up with a way for…