… The Abbe Prevost’s 1731 novel, L’Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut, was the inspiration for no…
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Online references on Stravinsky William Hogarth created his series of satirical etchings, "The Rakes Progress," in 1735, influenced in part…
Opera in seven scenes by Modest Mussorgsky Libretto by Mussorgsky San Francisco Opera October 22-November 15, 2008 Vassily Sinaisky, conductor…
Riccardo Zandonai is hardly a familiar name. Just about the only one of his operas that rates more than a…
Suggested readings: Kurt Weill: The Life of Kurt Weill in Photos and Documents (1999), David Farneth Kurt Weill: Broadway &…
San Francisco Opera November 21-Dec 9, 2006 War Memorial Opera House San Francisco PRODUCTION Conductor: Sebastian Lang-Lessing / George Cleve*…
Blood is the image that dominates Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, a one-act opera written by composer Bela Bartk with libretto in…
You know you’re in trouble when “Un Bel Di Vedremo”, one of the most moving arias in Opera, leaves you…
Houston Grand Opera October 21, 2006 Giuseppe Verdi’s troubled opera, Simon Boccanegra, had a rough start out of the gate…
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…