Una piccola ma scelta rappresentanza di questo esimio consesso ha assistito ieri sera alla terzultima rappresentazione de La Cenerentola al Regio di Torino. In una sala strapiena di un pubblico…
Year: 2004
Lamento with Magdalena Ko
The imposing figure of Johann Sebastian Bach has loomed large for Magdalena Koená throughout her career. It was her first disc of Bach arias on Deutsche Grammophon’s Archiv label that…
Tsar’s Bride at the Mariinsky
ST. PETERSBURG, December 29 (RIA Novosti) – The city’s Mariinka (Kirov) theater is to open its next season here today with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Tsar’s Bride” opera. Talking to RIA Novosti,…
Gramophone Reviews Le Comte Ory
Colour, wit and life abound with a star turn from the Rossini tenor of the moment Comte Ory Le Comte Ory is the first great French-language comic opera. A late…
Bullfrog Films’ Don Giovanni: Leporello’s Revenge
Don Giovanni: Leporello’s Revenge Mozart’s opera presented from the point of view of Don Giovanni’s servant, Leporello. 55 minutes Color / Stereo Copyright Date: 2000 ISBN: 1-56029-885-5 Mozart’s Don Giovanni…
An Overview of Opera at Spoleto Festival USA
Spoleto Festival USA has announced the production of three operas for 2005. These are: Die Vögel (The Birds) Lost when Braunfels was blacklisted by the Nazis in the late 1930s,…
Moskva, Cheryomushki at Lyon
Moskva, Cheryomushki, Opéra de Lyon, France By Francis Carlin Published: December 29 2004 02:00 | Last updated: December 29 2004 02:00 Wanted: a warm-up guy for chronically frigid audience. The…
Le Monde Reviews Verdi’s Falstaff from Andante
Deux “Falstaff”, à vingt ans d’écart LE MONDE | 27.12.04 | 14h05 Les amateurs d’opéra ont, généralement, un fort penchant pour l’écoute comparée des interprétations. L’éditeur Andante les comblera. Dans…
Egypt and Opera at the Museum
De l’Isis de Lully, en 1677, à l’Akhnaten de Philip Glass, en 1984, en passant par l’inoubliable Aïda de Verdi, pas moins de deux cents créations lyriques – cantates, oratorios,…
Salieri Redux
For Mozart’s Archrival, an Italian Renaissance By JASON HOROWITZ MILAN – For more than 200 years, Antonio Salieri’s obscure opera “Europa Riconosciuta” (“Europa Revealed”) was forgotten. Before its return to…