05 Feb 2006
An epic tale of lost chords found
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14932-2021534,00.html
Recently in News
Latest news
Bizet’s Carmen Uncovered
https://boydellandbrewer.com/bizet-s-i-carmen-i-uncovered.html
The Operas of Sergei Prokofiev
https://boydellandbrewer.com/the-operas-of-sergei-prokofiev.html
Incoming Artistic Director Rosetta Cucchi announces her 2020 programme inspired by William Shakespeare and the launch of the Wexford Factory Academy for young Irish singers
https://www.wexfordopera.com/media/news/incoming-artistic-director-rosetta-cucchi-announces-her-2020-programme
Music In The Present Tense: Rossini’s Italian Operas in Their Time
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo43988096.html
The Last Opera: The Rake’s Progress in the Life of Stravinsky and Sung Drama
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=809636
Prokofiev’s Soviet Operas
https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/music/twentieth-century-and-contemporary-music/prokofievs-soviet-operas?format=HB
The Operas of Benjamin Britten – Expression and Evasion by Claire Seymour
https://boydellandbrewer.com/the-operas-of-benjamin-britten.html
The Opera Singer’s Acting Toolkit
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-opera-singers-acting-toolkit-9781350006454/
The real Traviata. The Song of Marie Duplessis
https://h-france.net/vol18reviews/vol18no52palidda.pdf
Glyndebourne announces new Artistic Director
http://www.operatoday.com/content/2018/08/glyndebourne_an.php
BLACK OPERA: HISTORY, POWER, ENGAGEMENT
A musical challenge to our view of the past
Die schöne Müllerin by Mark Padmore
Opera Rara - How to Rescue a Lost Opera
https://vimeo.com/operarara/how-to-rescue-an-opera
Welsh National Opera explores Madness for autumn season
New Releases from Opera Rara
A Time-Out With Isabel Leonard: In 'L'Heure Espagnole' at San Francisco Symphony
On Site Opera Presents 'Barber of Seville' at Fabbri Mansion on New York’s Upper East Side
Il Trittico: Puccini's most underrated opera
Bizet's Carmen | English National Opera
OPERA TODAY ARCHIVES »
News
Amanda Holloway on how a Shostakovich film score lived again [Times Online, 3 February 2006]
One film that certainly wouldn’t have been up for the Best Foreign Picture Oscar (had there been one) in 1931 was a spectacular Soviet drama called Odna (Alone). Audiences were moved to tears by the story of the plucky heroine played by Yelena Kuzmina trying to bring communist ideals to a feudal Siberian village, but the film was withdrawn by the Soviet authorities for being offmessage. Far from being propaganda extolling the Soviet system, it seems, Odna was full of veiled digs at its ideology and its leaders.