The 2013 BBC Proms season ahs just been announced. It’s spectacular – almost all of Wagner’s major operas feature either in full performance or as excerpts. Verdi, Britten, Tippett and Birtwistle also feature. And Joyce DiDonato headlines a glorious Last Night of the Proms.
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Pl·cido Domingo sings Nabucco – Royal Opera House
Pl·cido Domingo’s London debut as Nabucco at the Royal Opera House was received with rapture. Domingo’s position in opera is immense. His very presence comes over so well that any performance feels like a historic event. He is a marvel. If Domingo was singing Pl·cido Domingo rather than Nabucco, it hardly mattered. He delivered the big areas well, and was particularly impressive in the typically Verdian dialogues between father and daughter. Domingo isn’t a singer who needs Personenregie. He is simply himself and that’s enough.
The Truth about Love — unusual new work by young American singer and composer.
Steven Ebel is a young American, and a member of the Royal Opera House’s Jette Parker Young Artists Programme, which nurtures young singers and theater artists, and commissioned this unusual new work, The Truth about Love.
Santa Fe Celebrates Two Divas
With the sublime Christine Brewer and the acclaimed Natalie Dessay on the Santa Fe roster, what more could a discerning opera-goer really want?
Gluck by Bampton Classical Opera
Performances by Bampton Classical Opera are typically noteworthy for two
principal aspects: first, the company repeatedly presents classical-period
rarities which surprise and delight, and second, they do so with wit, energy
and musico-dramatic vision, often employing quirky, fresh translations.
MASSENET: Werther
Werther: Drame lyrique en 4 actes et 5 tableaux
Music composed by Jules Massenet. Libretto by Edouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann based on Die Leiden des jungen Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Andante: Santa Fe Opera Aims High
Santa Fe Opera Aims High By David Patrick Stearns Three of the 2004 season’s productions — Don Giovanni, Agrippina and La sonnambula (starring Natalie Dessay) — prove very worthwhile, even…