BBC Proms Youth Choir shines in a performance notable for its magical transparency
Year: 2015
Prom 67: Bernstein — Stage and Screen
The John Wilson Orchestra have been annual summer visitors to the Royal Albert Hall since their Proms debut in 2009 and, with their seductive blend of technical precision, buoyant glitziness and relaxed insouciance, their concerts have become a hugely anticipated fixture and a sure highlight of the Promenade season.
A Chat with Tenor RenÈ Barbera
American tenor RenÈ Barbera is fast making a name for himself as one of the
top bel canto singers in opera houses around the world.
Prom 65: Alice Coote sings Handel
Disappointing staging mars Alice Coote’s vibrant if wayward musical performance
Santa Fe: Secondary Mozart in First Rate Staging
Impresario Boris Goldovsky famously referred to La finta giardiniera as The Phony Farmerette.
Regimented Daughter in Santa Fe
At Santa Fe Opera, Donizetti’s effervescent The Daughter of the Regiment can’t quite decide what it wants to be when it grows up.
Santa Fe’s Celebratory Jester
Santa Fe Opera noted a landmark two-thousandth performance in their distinguished history with a stylish new production of Rigoletto.
Sibelius Kullervo, BBC Proms, London
Why did Jean Sibelius suppress Kullervo (Op7, 1892)? There are many theories why he didn’t allow it to be heard after its initial performance, though he referred to it fondly in private.
AÔda at Aspen
Most opera professionals, including the individuals who do the casting for
major houses, despair of finding performers who can match historical standards
of singing in operas such as AÔda. Yet a concert performance in Aspen
gives a glimmer of hope. It was led by four younger singers who may be part of
the future of Verdi singing in America and the world.
Hibla Gerzmava to Debut at Carnegie Hall
The name of Hibla Gerzmava has been famous in the opera world since 1994,
when at age 24 the Abkhazian-Russian soprano won the Grand Prix at Tchaikovsky
International Competition, entering its history as the first and only vocalist
to have been awarded the highest prize.