San Francisco Opera November 21-Dec 9, 2006 War Memorial Opera House San Francisco PRODUCTION Conductor: Sebastian Lang-Lessing / George Cleve*…
Music
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…
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,…