Mazeppa by Pytor Iliych Tchaikovsky Opera Ireland The Gaiety Theatre, Dublin Conductor: Alexander Anissimov Directed by: Dieter Kaegi Featuring: Valeri Alexeev (Mazeppa), Sinéad Mulhern (Maria), Michail Ryssov (Kotsjobej), Elena Manistina (Ljoebov) 1st to 6th March http://www.operaireland.com/ In the ...
Andre Previn's newly unveiled work, adapted from Tennessee Williams' great play, A Streetcar Named Desire has been lavished with as fine a cast as can be imagined, perfectly suitable sets and lighting, and Maestro Previn himself in the pit. ...
Tales of Hoffman By Jacques Offenbach Libretto by Jules Barbier Adapted and translated by David Scott Marley Berkeley Opera February 28-March 7, 2009 Julia Morgan Center for the Arts http://www.berkeleyopera.org/ For anyone who’s ever wondered if Jacques Offenbach can ...
Houston Grand Opera by Benjamin Britten Houston TX January 23, 2009 http://www.houstongrandopera.org/ Houston Grand Opera continues its stride with year two of their six-year Benjamin Britten cycle with their enchanting production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Combining Shakespeare and opera ...
Dramatic legend in four parts by Hector Berlioz Libretto by Almire Gandonnière and Berlioz Metropolitan Opera, New York City through December 4, 2008 James Levine, conductor Robert Lepage, director http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/season/production.aspx?id=9929 video preview: http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/news/features/detail.aspx?id=5792 Near the end of the first half ...
Gerard O’Connor (Alcindoro), Alessia Grimaldi (Musetta) PHOTOGRAPHY BY PAT REDMOND Dublin: Gaiety Theatre 18-26 November, 2006 www.operaireland.com/ Opera Ireland’s ‘prison’ La Bohème follows the lead of an Italian production of 2004 with design contributions from detainees at ...
Pierre Courtin is a French painter and engraver, born in 1921. His abstract work was part of the surrealist movement in the early forties, and then later part of the neo-cubist period which was at its time was ...
Ariel Bybee Inez, Maria Luisa Nave in the title role of La Favorita, San Francisco Opera, 1973 Throughout the San Francisco Opera's production of La Favorite, there are seven larger-than-life figures of saints mounted high up ...
The plot of Louise will tax no one in its level of difficulty. Girl finds boy, girl runs away with boy over (unreasonable) parental objections, girl and boy are deliriously happy, parents fail to get girl to return home ...
Opera in three acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Libretto by Giambattista Varesco San Francisco Opera October 15-31, 2008 Donald Runnicles, conductor John Copley, director http://sfopera.com/o/267.asp “Idomeneo” has always given San Francisco Opera a little trouble. Mozart’s first fully realized opera ...
