Houston Grand Opera October 21, 2006 Giuseppe Verdi’s troubled opera, Simon Boccanegra, had a rough start out of the gate…
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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…
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,…
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…
Streetcar 1: L-R: Orla Boylan (sings Blanche BuBois) & Sam McElroy (sings Stanley Kowalski) PHOTOGRAPHY BY PAT REDMOND Opera Ireland…