Metropolitan Opera 2024-25 Review: Grounded - OperaWire
2024年9月24日 · WARNING: This review features explicit language. It also uses some variation of the word “frustrating” a lot. To use a line from the cathartic and sublime climax in Jeanine Tesori and George Brant’s “Grounded” – “What the f*ck?”. That quotidian expression perfectly encapsulates, in the context of the climax and at large, the frustration of …
Metropolitan Opera 2024-25 Review: Tosca - OperaWire
This season’s premiere of Met Opera’s “Tosca” features Polish soprano Aleksandra Kurzak, in the titular role, marking her 100th Met performance.Her Met debut was in 2004 as Olympia in Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” and her performances leading up to this season have all been unforgettable, especially Kurzak as Tosca.
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5 天之前 · (Photo credit: Louis Chan / David Allen) What does the future look like for female directors in opera? Opera San José, the opera company in the heart of Silicon Valley, California, now entering its 41st season, gives OperaWire a look at two young trailblazers: the current CEO and General Director, Shawna Lucey, and Michelle Ainna Cuizon, presently in residence and {…}
Festival Verdi Announces 2025 Edition - OperaWire
2024年10月10日 · Festival Verdi has announced the operas for the 2025 edition, which will take place between Sept. 20 and Oct. 18, 2025. The theme for the Festival will be Verdi and Shakespeare and will celebrate the 25th edition in Parma and Busetto.. The operas that will be showcased are “Otello,” “Macbeth (1847),” and “Falstaff.”
Obituary: Soprano Patricia Burda Janečková Dies at the Age of 25
On Oct. 1, 2023, Patricia Burda Janečková died of breast cancer. She was 25. An official statement on Facebook said, “The opera and musical singer lost her courageous fight with an aggressive disease.
Metropolitan Opera 2024-25 Review: Ainadamar - OperaWire
By David Salazar. Prior to creating OperaWire, DAVID SALAZAR, (Editor-in-Chief) worked as a reporter for Latin Post where he interviewed major opera stars including Placido Domingo, Anna Netrebko, Vittorio Grigolo, Diana Damrau and Rolando Villazon among others.
Central City Opera Announces 2025 Season - OperaWire
2024年10月16日 · The Central City Opera has announced its 2025 season. The season will take place between June 28 and August 3, 2025, and will be the first festival programmed by newly appointed Artistic Director Alison Moritz.. Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” will return to the Central City Opera will for the first time in 12 years.. Aleksandra Vrebalov and …
Wexford Festival Opera Announces 2025 Season - OperaWire
2024年10月21日 · The Wexford Festival Opera has announced its autumn 2025 festival. The festival will run for 16 days between Oct. 17 and Nov. 1 and will explore the theme of Myths & Legends.
Royal Opera House 2024-25 Review: The Tales of Hoffmann
2024年11月12日 · In a recent interview with director Damiano Michieletto at the Venice production of “The Tales of Hoffmann,” he said: “At its heart it is a journey into fantasy. It is opera fantastique, after all!” One definition of the French word fantastique is: a term for a literary and cinematic genre and mode that is characterized by the intrusion of supernatural elements into the realistic ...
CD Review: Pene Pati’s ‘Nessun Dorma’ - operawire.com
2024年10月11日 · The Samoan Pene Pati is a sumptuously voiced tenor. He boasts a quintessentially lyrical sound, timbered as if made for virtually anything out of the great Romantics’ operatic pen. In “Nessun Dorma,” he once again proves his qualities: After his 2022 debut on Warner Classics, he takes on a heavily eclectic repertory which he navigates with remarkably executed showpiece notes, {…}