Mary-Lou Vetere-Borghoff interviews Soprano Jennifer O’Loughlin of the Vienna Volksoper
Category: Commentary
Settling the Score — An Interview with Philip Gossett
Introduction: Philip Gossett is one of those rarities in academia: a scholar of the first order and a consummate teacher.
Pairing and Elaboration
The character configuration in Vivaldi’s Tito Manlio is unusual because of its musical pairing of the prima donna Servilia with the seconda donna Vitellia not just once, but twice in the second act of the opera.
Pratolino, Venice, Mantua: Musings on Vivaldi’s Tito Manlio
Tito Manlio, Vivaldi’s second opera in Mantua for the 1718/19 season, is fraught with political and familial tensions.1
Opera in Paris
What a difference a year makes. Music lovers who rely on their memories to find the right places to hear music in Paris could be for a surprise if they do not check beforehand what France has now to offer.
The Bostridge Phenomenon
The curious phenomenon of British tenor manquÈ, Ian Bostridge, continues to astound, as his concert and even operatic dates, primarily in Europe, mount; his recordings increase, and his appeal to a certain section of the classical audience (they would likely call themselves, ìcognoscentiî) endures. I have to wonder why?
“Castrato” ó In Search of a Lost Voice
Nestling artistically in a bowl, carefully arranged and lit to suit the camera early in the programme, the testicles seemed to glow softly with their hidden history, their inherent potential and, now, their very lack of future.
Hello, cruel world
With its mismatched couples and absurd plot, Cosi Fan Tutte is thought of as Mozart’s ‘frivolous’ opera.
Andrew Clark: All the worldís his stage
The scene is an urban wasteland at night. A young man is having sex with a woman in the back of a car while his sidekick keeps watch. An older man appears, hell-bent on attacking his daughterís seducer.
Opera at Curtis
Curtis, Americaís top fully funded conservatory, is on the move as one of the nationís leading opera preparatory programs.