Handel’s Rinaldo at the Glyndebourne Festival is a triumph in musical terms. Don’t miss it when it appears at the BBC Proms this summer in concert performance, because some of the singing is very good indeed.
Year: 2011
Grant Park Music Festival, Chicago Commemorates Gustav Mahler
To commemorate the hundredth anniversary of Gustav Mahler’s death Carlos
Kalmar and the Grant Park Orchestra gave in early July two performances of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde featuring the vocal soloists Alexandra Petersamer and Christian Elsner.
La rondine, Opera Holland Park
Opera Holland Park’s unique selling point has always been a devotion to the more obscure works of Puccini and his Italian contemporaries.
Cendrillon, Royal Opera
Words, stories, books — the gateway to a world of fantasy in which anything is possible.
Guillaume Tell, Caramoor Festival
For classical music fans, summer means only one thing: summer festivals. The goal of these festivals is to showcase a wide range of repertory with thought provoking creativity.
“Opera is like a tree” — ZhengZhong Zhou
In Gounod’s Faust at the Royal Opera House in October 2011,
Zhengzhong Zhou is alternating with Dmitri Hvorostovsky in the part of
Valentin. Alternating, not covering or substituting. Since Zhou is very young,
it’s quite a challenge.
Maria di Rohan/Saul, Buxton Festival, Derbyshire, UK
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/0fa6d814-ab9d-11e0-8a64-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1SkUK6UTd
Alexandra Deshorties carves indelible image as the wily sorceress in Glimmerglass’s ‘Medea’
http://blog.cnycafemomus.com/2011/07/12/july-10-glimmerglass-festival-medea.aspx
Faust Reaches Santa Fe Opera — And How!
The celebrated New Mexico opera festival has, in its fifty-fifth season, created a production of Charles Gounod’s 1859 masterpiece Faust, its first ever.
Raffaele Cardone, Miami Lyric Opera
Remember when opera was all the rage? Remember when you could walk across to any town and experience a whole different opera scene, a different opera house, different orchestras and singers?