It wasn't Theodora, but the Carnegie Hall audience, who went wild on Sunday at the performance by the English Concert of Handel's rarely heard THEODORA, starring Dorothea Roschmann and David…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:44AMBefore seeing the Met's new production of Johann Strauss Jr.'s DIE FLEDERMAUS, directed by Jeremy Sams, on Saturday night, I listened to the afternoon's live broadcast of Mozart's THE MAGIC …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:38PM"Dying is easy; comedy is hard" says the old show business quip. If anything, opera comedy is even harder. Why is it so difficult? Because it offers so many opportunities to do a disservice …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:48PMOn Broadway, when a revival loses two out of three of its stars, the production might very well be put off until another season or, at worst, the producers might simply pack it in. In the op…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:57PMLive from New York, it's soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci! Lucky for us. Antonacci is considered one of those distinctive, uncategorizable singers who show up every once in a while to excite …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:13PMThere are more famous operas than Richard Strauss's DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN (The Woman without a Shadow), but you won't find one that is more exciting when all the pieces--and there are lots …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:09PMMaybe next time around, the Metropolitan Opera's General Manager Peter Gelb will hire film director Quentin Tarantino to do a production of Puccini's TOSCA. With its sordid story, self-invol…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:08PMIt's not often that singers make their debuts on Broadway and then make a splash at the opera, but that's what happened when Paulo Szot--a Tony winner for "South Pacific"--opened in the Met'…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:48PMWith a story that is somehow poignant despite its scatological language, ANNA NICOLE's heroine is nicer than Berg's LULU, less lucky than TRAVIATA's Violetta and more cunning than MANON's Ma…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:56PMFrom its earliest days, Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival has included opera among its offerings, although I recall no production being quite so acclaimed as Iván Fischer's DON GIOVAN…
SOURCE: opera.broadwayworld.com at 02:44PMIs Lincoln Center planning to change its summertime schedule from “Mostly Mozart” to “Basically Beethoven”? If so, they couldn't have picked a better concert to put the point across …
SOURCE: opera.broadwayworld.com at 07:27PMWhen last heard on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera, mezzo Isabel Leonard and soprano Erin Morley were a couple of nuns on their way to the guillotine in LES DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES. Thi…
SOURCE: opera.broadwayworld.com at 05:49PMThe Caramoor Festival in Katonah, NY said “Bon anniversaire, Joseph Vert”--that's “Happy Birthday, Giuseppe Verdi” in French--on Saturday night, with a performance of LES VEPRES SICI…
SOURCE: opera.broadwayworld.com at 08:44PMKatarina Dalayman is one of a handful of top Wagnerian sopranos in the world, but for the first act of the Met's GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG, the climax of the Met's second 'Ring' cycle of the season,…
SOURCE: opera.broadwayworld.com at 10:29PMWhat would the Metropolitan Opera (and its audiences) do without its production of Francis Poulenc's DIALOGUES DES CARMÉLITES, which opened for the season with Saturday's matinee, May 4? As…
SOURCE: opera.broadwayworld.com at 04:43PMNew York City Opera's production of Jacques Offenbach's LA PERICHOLE feels right at home at City Center, home of the "Encores!" series, which reintroduces audiences to lesser known Broadway …
SOURCE: opera.broadwayworld.com at 10:42PMThe groans were audible--no, powerful--when the Metropolitan Opera's General Manager Peter Gelb stepped out in front of the curtain on the second night of the company's new David McVicar pro…
SOURCE: opera.broadwayworld.com at 06:20AMSoprano Diana Damrau--star of Michael Mayer's acclaimed 'Ratpack' RIGOLETTO--talks about creating her role debut as Violetta in the Metropolitan Opera's Willy Decker production of LA TRAVIAT…
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