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 ...
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 ...
. Suggested reading: Lucia di Lammermoor (Opera Journeys Mini Guide Series) Bel canto - literally beautiful singing - is a technical term for a particular singing technique (more info here), but the term is used popularly ...
I Pagliacci, variously translated as Traveling Players or Clowns, is a popular and often performed short opera in the verismo style. A tight, well structured libretto uses the play-within-a-play device to explore classic themes of passion, adultery, jealousy, and ...
Handel’s oratorios were not composed for the theatrical stage where, in England, religious dramas were forbidden until the 20th century. Bankrupted by his endeavors in the field of grand opera, Handel turned to religious works as a way to ...
If Hector Berlioz had not wandered in to see Hamlet one night the world would not now be in possession of his uber-charmer Beatrice and Benedict, his opera-zation of William Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing. Houston Grand Opera's recent ...
Ottorino Respighi Academy of Vocal Arts (AVA) Philadelphia, PA Conducted by Christopher Macatsoris Perelman Theater in the Kimmel Center Jan. 23, 24, 27, 2009 http://www.avaopera.com/season/lafiamma/ The Academy of Vocal Arts (AVA) performed Ottorino Respighi’s opera ‘la Fiamma‘ in a ...
Online references on Beethoven If Fidelio is not the finest argument that opera transcends the sum of its parts, what is? The story has a ridiculous premise: a woman, whose husband has been ...
Suggested reading: Guide to Parsifal with complete libretto and a parallel translation into English by Andrew Porter For his last opera, Wagner dug into German and Christian legends and, in his inimitable fashion, created ...
The Marriage of Figaro is a marriage of Beaumarchais' witty, satirical play about the foibles of lovers and the presumptions of class, with the witty music of Mozart at his most lyrically beautiful, the marriage perfectly brokered by the ...
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