Nancy Wozny
The devil goes by many names, but for opera (and Goethe) lovers, Mephistopheles is the preferred one. With a talent the size of Samuel Ramey in the role, the devil makes some fine company in the Houston Grand Opera’s dazzling ...
Karren LaLonde AlenierDC,
Glyndbourne production:
La Clemenza Di Tito DVD
Libretto to La Clemenza di Tito in Italian and English By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Vocal scores. See more info...
La Clemenza Di Tito By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Choral/Vocal. Size ...
Harvey O'Brien
Inspired by Michel Carre’s 1850 stageplay Faust et Marguerite, Charles Gounod’s Faust was first staged in Paris in 1859, a time and place of political unease and outright war. A key character in the libretto is Marguerite’s brother Valentin, ...
Washington National Opera General Director Placido Domingo and guest director Francesca Zambello have launched what they are calling The American Ring with their 2005-2006 production of Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold. Except for the Native American style costuming of Erda, ...
Karren LaLonde Alenier
Lysistrata -Mark Adamo
Illustration from Lysistrata by Aubrey Beardsley Buy it at Art.com
Lysistrata or The Nude Goddess by Mark Adamo is opera buffa with a tremolo of serious drama. Commissioned by the Houston Grand Opera and Opera ...
Karren LaLonde AlenierNew York,
The Metropolitan Opera commissioned and premiered an ambitious new opera, An American Tragedy, by composer Tobias Picker with a libretto by Gene Scheer. The two act opera is based on Theodore Dreiser’s best-selling novel that deals with the sordid side ...
Karren LaLonde AlenierDC,
The community at Catfish Row, including the cripple Porgy, sexpot Bess, thug Crown, and drug-dealer Sportin’ Life, spring to life in Washington National Opera’s new production of George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. The credit for this stunning success lies with ...
Arthur Lazere
Norma, the eighth of Bellini's slim output of ten operas (compare to Rossini's 38, Donizetti's 65), is widely acknowledged as his masterpiece, a work in which he retained the melodic beauty and vocal elegance of the bel canto style, ...
Arthur Lazere
John Donne: Holy Sonnet XIV Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, ...
Karren LaLonde AlenierDC,
The music of Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani opens majestically and alternates in turn with playful and emotionally dark interludes. Coming after Rigoletto, Il Travatore, and La Traviata, Vespri, infrequently performed in the contemporary repertory, offers the work of the mature ...
