Riccardo Zandonai is hardly a familiar name. Just about the only one of his operas that rates more than a mention is Francesca da Rimini, which seemed a noisy and unmusical bore when Scotto and Domingo sang it at ...
Suggested readings: Kurt Weill: The Life of Kurt Weill in Photos and Documents (1999), David Farneth Kurt Weill: Broadway & Hollywood (1997), Judy Bell (Editor) Speak Low (When You Speak Love): The Letters of Kurt Weil ...
San Francisco Opera November 21-Dec 9, 2006 War Memorial Opera House San Francisco PRODUCTION Conductor: Sebastian Lang-Lessing / George Cleve* (11/25, 12/2, 12/8) Production: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle Stage Director: Laurie Feldman Santoliquido Set Designer: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle Original ...
Blood is the image that dominates Duke Bluebeard's Castle, a one-act opera written by composer Bela Bartk with libretto in Hungarian by Bela Balazs. Washington National Opera, under the direction of film director William Friedkin (best known ...
You know you’re in trouble when “Un Bel Di Vedremo”, one of the most moving arias in Opera, leaves you cold. But coldness is all you possibly can feel from Robert Wilson’s staging of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at the Paris ...
Houston Grand Opera October 21, 2006 Giuseppe Verdi’s troubled opera, Simon Boccanegra, had a rough start out of the gate when it premiered back in 1857. Apparently the critics offered the dreaded “lukewarm” response. Verdi revised the ...
Suggested reading: Giacomo Puccini (1997), Conrad Wilson Puccini (1996), Peter Southwell-Sander Nineteenth Century Italian Opera from Rossini to Puccini (1995), Daniele Pistone Operas of Puccini (1985), William Ashbrookan Online references ...
Idomeneo VHS Idomeneo DVD 1982 Metropolitan Opera production with Pavarotti Suggested reading: Mozart: A Life 1996, Maynard Solomon Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart: His Character, His ...
Handel wrote Rinaldo to knock ’em dead. It was 1710, and he had just arrived in London with a reputation as a keyboard virtuoso, mostly won in Italy. He had hung around princely courts in Germany. He was 25, ...
By Pietro Mascagni and Ruggero Leoncavallo (respectively) Houston Grand Opera Wortham Center, Houston, TX October 2008 http://www.houstongrandopera.org/ Maria Markina and Brandon Jovanovich in Cavalleria Rusticana. Photo: Felix Sanchez. Houston Grand Opera's recent productions of Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria ...
