Suggested reading: Reminiscences of Rimsky-Korsakov (1985), Vasilii Vasilevich Yastrebtsev The Literary Lorgnette: Attending Opera in Imperial Russia (2000), Julie A. Buckler Rimsky-Korsakov wrote a dozen or so full length operas, some of which ...
By Giacomo Puccini Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica San Francisco Opera November 16-December 7, 2008 http://www.sfopera.com/ Paris, poverty and passion; they always seem to go together but never quite as beautifully as in Puccini’s “La Boheme.” A combination ...
It begins with murder and ends in damnation: Mozart’s rather bleak follow up to The Marriage of Figaro, and is, if anything, even more politically incendiary in its depiction of the licentiousness of the gentry than its more controversial predecessor. ...
The Keys to French Opera in the Nineteenth Century (2001), Herve Lacombe Online references on French opera A professor at the Paris Conservatory, and for some ...
Pavarotti's frequent performances of his signature aria, Nessun dorma, have made Turandot more popular than ever. The story of the conversion of an ice princess through the power of love, placed in ancient Peking, provides the essential elements for grand ...
Don Pasquale Academy of Vocal Arts, Philadelphia March 3, 2009 Donizetti Director David Gately Conductor Richard A. Raub Jeremy Paul Milner, Ryan Kuster, Zulimar L�pez-Hern�ndez, Corinne Winters Taylor Stayton, Joseph Demarest http://www.avaopera.org/ Opera director David Gately’s Wild West version ...
Benjamin Britten: Billy Budd (Cambridge Opera Handbooks) Online references on Benjamin Britten Herman Melville's novella, Billy Budd, published posthumously in 1924, is an allegory, a tale pitting ...
... The Abbe Prevost's 1731 novel, L'Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut, was the inspiration for no less than three operas, Puccini's Manon Lescaut, as well as two Manon's, the popular Massenet and a pretty much forgotten ...
Online references on Stravinsky William Hogarth created his series of satirical etchings, "The Rakes Progress," in 1735, influenced in part by the literary work of his contemporary, Jonathan Swift. In that pre-photography time, ...
Opera in seven scenes by Modest Mussorgsky Libretto by Mussorgsky San Francisco Opera October 22-November 15, 2008 Vassily Sinaisky, conductor Julia Pevzner, director http://sfopera.com/o/268.asp If you’re going to have hordes of peasants in an opera, you have to give them ...
