Michael McDonagh
Online references on Akhnaten Opera has from the very beginning focussed on myth and ritual. So Philip Glass' three act Akhnaten (1984), which was seen as an oddity by some at its Stuttgart ...
Karren LaLonde Alenier
Our capsule review of the 1998 San Francisco world premiere of the opera the film with Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh DVD the film with Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh VHS ...
Harvey O'Brien
Schedule of other performances around the world Online references on Verdi The dress rehearsal for the premiere performance of Verdi's Don Carlos (the original French version for Paris Opera in ...
Karren LaLonde Alenier
The University of Maryland under the direction of Leon Major has commissioned an engaging new opera by music theater librettist Kathleen Cahill and composer Robert Convery about the life of the extraordinary pianist and composer Clara Schumann. Although Clara is ...
Karren LaLonde AlenierDC,
The newly renamed Washington National Opera returned to the recently renovated Kennedy Center Opera House with a new production of Giacomo Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, the opera that launched Puccini’s career. With prestigious stars—Veronica Villarroel (Manon), Franco Farina (Des Grieux) and ...
Karren LaLonde AlenierVA,
Online references on Volpone
In the woods of northern Virginia, Wolf Trap Foundation has premiered Volpone (The Fox), their first commissioned opera. Based on Ben Jonson’s play of the same name, Wolf Trap’s Volpone, with music by ...
Michael McDonagh
Arias from Siroe can be found on the following recordings: Handel - The Rival Queens Glorious Handel - Soprano Arias Online references on Siroe Period instrument orchestras used to be few and far ...
Mark Jennett
After a number new or imported productions that have, by and large, been indifferently received, the Royal Opera returns to familiar territory. The late John Schlesinger’s 1980 production of Les Contes D’Hoffmann is sumptuously traditional in style – with ...
Karren LaLonde AlenierDC,
The Mazeppa Legend in European Romanticism
(1974), Hubert F. Babinski
Online references on Mazeppa
Vulture, dove, and arrow are the metaphors used in Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky’s opera Mazeppa to describe three of the central characters. ...
Online references on Eugene Onegin "Life is not like a novel" is one of the catch phrases of Eugene Onegin, an opera completed in 1878 by composer Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky ...
