Robert Stuart Thomson’s Italian language learning text, Operatic Italian, promises to become an invaluable textbook for aspiring operatic singers, voice teachers, coaches and conductors.
Year: 2010
La Boheme at the Grand, Leeds
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/opera/article6992715.ece
Stiffelio at the MET
Stiffelio was composed just after Luisa Miller — an opera that has had little trouble holding its own in the repertory — and just before the magic trio of Rigoletto, Trovatore and Traviata, the first Verdi operas to take their immediate place on the stages of the world and hold them without a break from that day to this.
Phaedra at the Barbican
Most musical of mourners, weep anew!
Not all to that bright station dared to climb
And happier they their happiness who knew
Whose tapers yet burn through that night of time
Winter Opera focuses on singing in ‘Werther’
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/entertainment/reviews.nsf/stage/story/41E90990B562840B862576AF005D8003?OpenDocument
‘Il Trovatore’ casts show convoluted plot’s versatility
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/entertainment/2010825923_opera19.html
Neal Goren of Gotham Chamber Opera: An Interview
The thing you need in order to start an arts organization, even more than a
great deal of money, is a whirlwind – an individual with unstoppable
energy who can put it all together and keep it working through thin times and
thick.
Elektra at the Barbican
Concert performances of operas are often problematic in that the work tends to be cut or otherwise played around with, or the venue is inappropriate – after all, these were meant to be staged pieces.