Monday, February 24, 2020 from The Opera Tattler
* Notes * Opera San José is in the midst of an appealing run of Il trovatore. The traditional production cleanly moves through the scenes and has a hint of humor plus lots of robust singing and playing. Though the...Monday, February 24, 2020 from parterre box
Opera for families may not generally be my thing, but I loved feeling like I was a tiny part of shaping a new opera.Monday, February 24, 2020 from parterre box
Happy 86th Birthday soprano Renata Scotto .Monday, February 24, 2020 from Pointe Magazine
Three dancers share how they create (and sometimes fake) a stage-ready ballet bun for their hair type—whether it's short and straight, coarse and curly, or somewhere in between. Curly Hair: Jasmine Perry, Los Angeles Ballet "My hair is...Sunday, February 23, 2020 from Opera Today
It’s very rare that you go to a concert and your expectation of it is completely turned on its head. This was one of those. Three works, each composed exactly a century apart, beginning and ending with performances of such clarity and...Sunday, February 23, 2020 from Neil Kurtzman
The coronavirus epidemic has understandably caused much anxiety throughout the world. Uncertainty about what the new disease portends has wreaked havoc on the cruise ship industry and the airlines. The stock market which is always...Sunday, February 23, 2020 from parterre box
If only she’d been able to sing more than 10 minutes of Bjork’s music!Sunday, February 23, 2020 from parterre box
Born on this day in 1927 soprano Régine Crespin .Sunday, February 23, 2020 from Opera Today
‘Yes, in my opinion no rhetoric more persuadeth or hath greater power over the mind; hath not Musicke her figures, the same which Rhetorique? What is a but her Antistrophe? her reports, but sweet Anaphora's? her counterchange of points,...Sunday, February 23, 2020 from Opera Today
Jakub Hrůša has an unusual gift for a conductor and that is to make the mightiest symphony sound uncommonly intimate. There were many moments during this performance of Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony where he grappled with its monumental...Sunday, February 23, 2020 from operatraveller
Verdi – Nabucco Nabucco – Leo Nucci Ismaele – Ştefan Pop Zaccaria – Riccardo Zanellato Abigaille – Csilla Boross Fenena – Enkelejda Shkosa Il Gran Sacerdote – Romano Dal Zovo Abdallo – Enzo Peroni Anna – Sarah Baratta Coro Teatro Regio...Sunday, February 23, 2020 from Boulezian
Saturday, February 22, 2020 from parterre box
Believe it or not, it’s the final Nozze of the Met’s 2019-2020 season.Saturday, February 22, 2020 from parterre box
Dolly definitely did not have me at Hello!Saturday, February 22, 2020 from operaramblings
Another unusual and interesting show from Larry Beckwith’s Confluence Concerts last night at the Aki Studio. The first half of the programme was a reading of Madeleine Thien’s short story Bullet Train. It’s sort of a...