Lyric Opera of Chicago has begun with the current season’s production of Show Boat a series of musicals of the American theater to be featured in coming years.
Author: Gary Hoffman
Armide, Opera Atelier
I have to rethink my week, because somehow I have to get to see Opera Atelier’s production of Jean-Baptiste Lully’s Armide again.
Il Sogno di Scipione
It’s unclear whether Mozart composed this highly undramatic “dramatic action” when he was fifteen, for his kindly master Prince-Archbishop von Schrettenbach of Salzburg, or the following year for the newly-elected successor, Prince-Archbishop Colloredo, who, soon afterwards, had the young man literally kicked out of his service.
Cologne Opera to Cancel Next Season?
On Tuesday evening, Cologne Opera’s director indicated he was planning to cancel the next season, 2012-2013.
Xu Zhong Tapped by Teatro Massimo Bellini
http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/04/chinese_conduct.php
Chinese Conductor to Lead Italian Opera
The Chinese conductor and pianist Xu Zhong will be the new artistic director
of an Italian opera house, the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania.
Mishap at the Musikfreunde
Tenor Johan Botha had just started carving his steak when his phone rang. A
director of Vienna’s Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde was on the line with an
emergency request.
Denoke Bows Out of Bayreuth
Soprano Angela Denoke announced on Wednesday that she would not be appearing as Br¸nnhilde, one of the critically important roles, at the 2013 Bayreuth Festival Ring Cycle.