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More Rivers is a CD of piano music by Frank Horvat played by Christina Petrowska Quilico. It’s a sort of sequel to Rivers a record of music by Anne Southa, released on Centrediscs in 2005. It’s a set of seven …...Saturday, January 25, 2025 from operaramblings
The Canadian Opera Company opened it’s “new to Toronto” production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly on Friday night. It’s a production that’s been around for a while having premiered in Houston in 2010. ...Friday, January 24, 2025 from operaramblings
Edward Albee’s 1962 classic Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opened at Canadian Stage on Thursday evening in a production directed by Brendan Healy. It’s a long (not far short of 3.5 hours with two short intervals) and...Thursday, January 23, 2025 from operaramblings
Before looking forward to next month I want to mention a couple of things this weekend that I haven’t previously noticed. Saturday (Jan 25th) at 12.30pm there is a Met HD broadcast of new production of Aida with a pretty …...Thursday, January 23, 2025 from parterre box
A live performance from New York The post Tosca appeared first on Parterre Box .Thursday, January 23, 2025 from parterre box
Target Margin Theater proudly boasts that Show/Boat: A River, its small-scale and bare-bones staging of Show Boat (at the Skirball Center on Washington Square through the 26 th ), is a “bold reimagining” of the classic Jerome Kern &...Thursday, January 23, 2025 from We left at the interval...
ONP Bastille, Tuesday January 21 2025 Conductor: Juraj Valčuha. Production: André Engel. Sets: Nicky Rieti. Costumes: Elizabeth Neumuller. Lighting: André Diot. Choreography: Françoise Grès. The Vixen: Elena Tsallagova. The Fox: Paula...Thursday, January 23, 2025 from parterre box
Sabine Devieilhe sings a lot of stellar Mozart — Ilia, Susanna, Blonde, a fierce Queen of the Night — but it’s her 2015 concert-aria recording, featuring hubby Raphael Pichon and his period ensemble Pygmalion , to which...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from operaramblings
Helène Berr was a student at the Sorbonne in the 1940s. She was musical, well read and kept a journal. One looks at her photograph and one sees exactly what one expects; regular features, not too much makeup, nicely cut …...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from parterre box
Seven years ago, Trove Thursday presented an anthology of sixteen Mozart soprano concert arias. In 2025, Chris’s Cache adds to this month’s Mozart-fest with a deep dive into three of the most celebrated of those works: Vorrei spiegarvi,...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from parterre box
The combination of a young opera director who is a little bonkers and a seasoned Mozart soprano (this was Lenneke Ruiten ‘s 13th Mozart role on stage) resulted in one of the best performances of Nozze di Figaro I’ve ever...Tuesday, January 21, 2025 from operaramblings
This year’s offering from the UoT Opera Student Composers Collective was a piece about the history of Jarvis Street called Avenue of Avarice. It played in the Fleck Dance Theatre on Sunday afternoon in a production directed by...Tuesday, January 21, 2025 from parterre box
Christopher Cerrone and Stephanie Fleischmann ‘s opera at the Prototype Festival re-sets Rashomon in the Pacific Northwest and binds its characters into a hellish cycle of violence with a dark, hypnotic score The post Perspectives,...Tuesday, January 21, 2025 from parterre box
As most of you probably know, I worship at the altar of Moffo the way some worship Callas . She has so many great complete recordings, including Falstaff, Luisa Miller, Lucia, Rigoletto , etc. But one of her very best is this Nozze ....