Manitoba Opera laid aside all stereotypes about opera being stuffy and inaccessible with its feel-good production of Donizetti’s 1840 comic opera Daughter of the Regiment.
Year: 2012
Der fliegende Holl‰nder, ENO
ENO’s peculiar decision not to stage any Wagner during its 2012-13 season, that is the season in which the greater part of Wagner’s bicentenary falls, is at least mitigated by a new production of The Flying Dutchman during this preceding season.
Two from Florence
The double bill of Zemlinsky’s A Florentine Tragedy with
Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, currently being presented by the Canadian Opera Company, is a marriage made in heaven, a pair of complementary opposites who seem to belong together.
Manon, Metropolitan Opera
Massenet’s Manon succeeds in the theater when the soprano has
a real sense of the role and how she wants to present it.
Zagreb’s Wagner Casts Its Spell
Croatian National Opera, in collaboration with W¸rzburg’s (Germany) Mainfranken Theater has made quite a forceful case for Parsifal.
Manon Lescaut, Philadelphia
It is Manon month in the Mid-Atlantic states. In New York, the Met is presenting Massanet’s take, while Opera Company of Philadelphia has just opened Puccini’s version: his first successful opera, Manon Lescaut.
Matthias Goerne, Los Angeles
Los Angeles lieder lovers were treated to two extraordinary Schubertian
journeys on April 16th and 18th when bass-baritone Matthias Goerne partnered
with Christian Eschenbach performed the song cycles, Die schˆne
M¸llerin and Winterreise, as part of the Los Angeles
Philharmonic’s celebration of the composer’s 215th birthday.
Der Freisch¸tz, London
The unfashionableness of Der Freisch¸tz in England is a little baffling. In its day, not only was the opera celebrated across Germany, it soon conquered other European stages and indeed theatres worldwide.
Christopher Koelsch Tapped by LA Opera
Christopher Koelsch has been tapped Wednesday as the new president and chief executive officer of the Los Angeles Opera. Koelsch, 41, was the opera’s chief financial officer and will take the new post September 15.