A successful production of Verdi’s Macbeth relies not only on
incisive vocal characterization as projected by Macbeth and Lady Macbeth but
also on the interaction of these lead figures in order to vivify their descent
into a world of destruction.
Year: 2010
Verdi’s Macbeth in a New Production at Lyric Opera of Chicago
Salome at the Washington National Opera
With its playbill half-empty, its general director Placido Domingo
resigning, and the talk of a takeover by the Kennedy Center, Washington
National Opera is in a dire need of good news this season.
Promised End — English Touring Opera
In the final scene of Shakespeare’s King Lear, faced with the dreadful sight of the distraught Lear cradling in his arms the body of his dead daughter Cordelia, the Earl of Kent asks: “Is this the promised end?”
Marriage of Figaro in San Francisco (and Los Angeles)
No question that Nicola Luisotti is a conducting genius, and no question that genius runs amuck from time to time. In the case of Mo. Luisotti fairly often.
The Other ‘Marriage of Figaro’
The opening night of Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, in Rome
in 1816, was violently disrupted by vociferous protests from supporters loyal
to Paisiello, whose own comic interpretation of Beaumarchais’
politically-charged play had appeared in 1782.
Dame Joan Sutherland, Diva Who Sang Mad Lucia, Dies in Switzerland at 83
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-11/dame-joan-sutherland-diva-who-sang-mad-lucia-dies-in-switzerland-at-83.html
Pl·cido Domingo, Gustavo Dudamel together for the first time
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-et-dudamel-domingo-20101011,0,3004423.story
Promised End, Linbury Theatre, London
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/40e8b2fe-d541-11df-ad3a-00144feabdc0.html
Anonymous 4: The Cherry Tree
In the popular view, the modern celebration of Christmas seems to have begun
with Charles Dickens’s revivifying A Christmas Carol (1843).
Joan Sutherland: My Starter Diva
I was sixteen and knew nothing about opera, had just seen my first
Traviata at the City Opera (Patricia Brooks, Placido Domingo), was
entranced by the melodies — especially the Brindisi and
“Sempre libera” — and wanted more.