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A Captivating Il barbiere di Siviglia at the New National Theatre Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan · Tokyo

A Captivating Il barbiere di Siviglia at the New National Theatre Tokyo

Josef E. Köpplinger’s 2005 production of Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia celebrated its fifth revival in Tokyo this year. At the matinee on June 1st, the NNTT was filled with a somewhat younger and less formally attired audience than usual. There was a palpable sense of “Let’s enjoy this light-hearted comedy together” in the air, creating a marked contrast to other performances, where a more serious mood of anticipation has predominated. Based…Read Article
Emphatic singing characterises much of Garsington’s darkly imagined Queen of Spades
Buckinghamshire · Buckinghamshire

Emphatic singing characterises much of Garsington’s darkly imagined Queen of Spades

When Tchaikovsky’s card-game opera first appeared at London’s Drury Lane Theatre in 1915, it was announced by The Times as ‘a romance’. That’s marketing for you and pushing things a bit far, even with Pushkin’s original novella of 1833, where Lisa marries a dull functionary, while the anti-hero Herman, diminished by his gambling addiction, is confined to a mental asylum. Nothing so unsensational in Tchaikovsky’s reimagining who, with his brother…Read Article
Harvey Milk Reimagined at San Francisco’s Opera Parallèle
San Francisco, California · San Francisco

Harvey Milk Reimagined at San Francisco’s Opera Parallèle

Recalling a very dark moment in San Francisco’s history, Michael Korie and Stewart Wallace’s Harvey Milk Reimagined [for small operatic forces], arrived, via St. Louis, finally in San Francisco. This 1978 massacre remains, still, an open wound in San Francisco, a wound that art cannot heal, a wound exacerbated by the current culture wars, with San Francisco, as usual, the avant-garde. Back in 1996 when the Christopher Alden Houston production of…Read Article

Porgy and Bess at Washington National Opera

Who can resist an English-language opera in the U.S. capital, especially one whose original production starred two D.C. natives, Todd Duncan and Anne Wiggins Brown? If this production of Porgy and Bess is any indication, Washington National Opera’s regularly choosing English-language works in their seasons is the right decision. Not only did the entire cast have the audience enthralled, but also the experience overall felt like coming home due t…Washington DC · WashingtonRead Article

Chelsea Opera Group make a creditable addition to their repertoire of neglected operas in Bellini’s La straniera

Having presented Lalo’s Le roi d’Ys, based on a Breton legend, back in March, Chelsea Opera Group now gave another opera set in Britanny, Bellini’s La straniera (1829). It’s another story (set in the Middle Ages) about destructive, fatal passions, with the usual series of improbable twists in the plot, quite typical of bel canto repertoire. The stranger of the title is Alaide, the assumed name of the noblewoman Agnese who had been married to the…London, England · LondonRead Article

The whimsical, the valedictory and the heroic: three sides of Richard Strauss

Sometimes comments are voiced to the effect that you’d never know Jane Austen had been writing in the middle of the Napoleonic Wars, since there isn’t a single reference anywhere in her oeuvre to wartime activity. Was writing her complete refuge, in the same way that Richard Strauss was able to detach himself mentally and psychologically from the horrors of Nazi Germany in 1942 and retreat to pre-revolutionary France for his final opera? Capricc…Hamburg, Germany · HamburgRead Article

An impressive season-opener from Opera Holland Park’s Flying Dutchman

It seems entirely appropriate that Holland Park Opera’s first venture into Richard Wagner should be Der fliegende Holländer. And where better in London to experience its storm-tossed drama within an open-sided auditorium where you felt every gust of wind, even the canvas roof billowing like sails from the Dutchman’s ghostly ship. Directed by Julia Burbach, this new production steers a canny path between Gothic fantasy and reality. Eerie presenti…London, England · LondonRead Article

Madama Butterfly in Williamsburg

Minimalism in the Commonwealth of Virginia — an iconic opera in rarefied format achieved a powerful presence. Maestro Jorge Parodi’s orchestra of single winds, two horns, strings 3,2,1,2,1, piano, timpani and percussion somehow created many, even most of Puccini’s Butterfly colors that have become an indelible part of our operatic conscious. Though the program does not credit the creator of the score, later intelligence determined that it had or…Williamsburg, United States · WilliamsburgRead Article

‘Barber of Seville’ Makes the Cut — Oregon Coast TODAY

New York’s Metropolitan Opera will live-stream Gioachino Rossini’s effervescent comedy, “Il Barbiere di Siviglia,” to the Newport Performing Arts Center this Saturday, May 31. This will be the final presentation of the Met’s current “Live in HD” season, allowing Oregon Coast audiences the opportunity to watch the performance take place in real-time from nearly 3,000 miles away.  Rossini’s playful masterpiece retakes the stage in a madcap product…See the Story

Weill’s Der Protagonist in Venice

The recent run of Kurt Weill’s Der Protagonist at Venice’s Teatro Malibran offered a welcome opportunity to hear a great composer’s first and unjustly neglected opera. While its premiere in Dresden in 1926 received wide acclaim, this work has sunk into obscurity today, receiving just one performance a decade. The plot is a lurid amalgam of Ariadne auf Naxos, I Pagliacci, and Wozzeck, drawn almost verbatim from a play by librettist Georg Kaiser, …Venice, Veneto · VeniceRead Article

Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown: Opera North’s Simon Boccanegra

What links Verdi with Shakespeare is a keen awareness of the distinction that needs to be made between the public and the private man: an individual may project a particular persona very different from the one that is hidden away from general view. Moreover, an exalted position within the power structures of a state does not lessen troubling conflicts when they occur; it heightens them. Verdi, whose younger sister died in adolescence and who by …Genoa, Liguria · GenoaRead Article

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