Uncut with Canada’s Mistress of the trouser-role: the multifaceted Kimberly Barber.
Category: Commentary
Glimmerglass Opera 2007 ó An Overview
Glimmerglass Opera is in a watershed year. With the departure of Paul Kellogg, who had considerable success developing that annual festival, General and Artistic Director Michael Macleod has chosen to begin his tenure with a variation on the usual four-opera-season, namely a thematic collection
of pieces based on the “Orpheus” legend. “Don’t look
back” is the marketing catch phrase.
Jan Neckers on Recently Reissued Historicals
Almost thirty years ago a century old tradition ended with the last performance of I Maestri Cantatori.
Santa Fe Opera in Changing Times
Santa Fe Operaís announcement August 10 that English-born impresario, Richard Gaddes, General Director of the company since 2001, will retire at the end of season 2008, took the local opera community by surprise.
The Week that Was for Opera: Santa Fe ó Dallas ó Denver/St Louis ó Toronto
The week just ended was certainly of historic moment in the world of North American opera companies.
Countertenor David DQ Lee: Winning Hearts and Minds at Cardiff Singer of the World
Perhaps it is a sign that, at last, the countertenor voice has come of age in the hearts and minds of both audiences and the opera establishment.
New Frocks for Old – Cardiff Singer of the World, 2007
Back in the early 1980’s two good ideas came to fruition: the much-needed new concert hall for Cardiff, capital city of Wales, and plans to hold within it the first “Singer of the World” competition.
Opera on the move at Spoleto USA
Charleston, S.C. ó For over 20 years it was two operas a season here at Spoleto USA, the all-arts
festival brought to this cultural capital of the Old South by Gian Carlo Menotti in 1977.
Rising to the occasion – Michael Maniaci saves the day at La Fenice
It is every young opera singer’s dream.
The Pleasures of Presence ó The Small Loudspeakers of Richard Sequerra
In the long ago, when the best source of music reproduction in the home was a handsome piece of furniture, fitted with hidden audio components, and usually called radio-phonographs, my family had one ó from Avery Fisher I believe ó that had among its controls a switch labeled ëpresence.í