Great is Manhattan’s Metropolitan Opera. But much of its scenery is hideous, most of its stagecraft pompous, hidebound, stodgy. In Europe, opera is everywhere sung in the language of the land, whereas ...
‘Madama Butterfly’ like never before: Sung in Japanese and English, with ethnically accurate casting
Ah, “Madama Butterfly,” Puccini’s classic operatic tale about a Japanese geisha and an American Navy lieutenant who meet in Nagasaki and fall in love as they sing to each other –– in Italian. It is a ...
In continental Europe opera is usually sung in the language of the country where it is produced. Thus in Germany Pagliacci becomes Bajazzo, in Italy Tristan nnd Isolde becomes Tristano e Isotta, in ...
Joan of Arc occupies a special place in the hearts of New Orleanians. As one of the patron saints of France, the former mother country of Louisiana, her heroism in battle and the morale she inspired ...
Though he's seen a number of Peking Opera performances over the years, the Canadian Peking Opera fan never fully understood the plot until recently, when the China Academy of Traditional Opera offered ...
The Glyndebourne Festival, which receives little government support, has been mostly immune from recent convulsions of the opera industry in Britain. By Joshua Barone and Alice Zoo Urged to develop a ...
In the first act of Semele, George Frideric Handel’s 1743 opera in English, Semele leaves her betrothed at the altar for Juno’s husband, Jupiter, and Semele’s sister hooks up with the abandoned fiancé ...
AFTER a silence of about five years, Massenet’s “Manon” has been revived at the Metropolitan, and the worst has happened. We hear from “Manon” fanciers that full justice was not done to Massenet’s ...
Among the great delights of the Bay Area’s musical scene is Pocket Opera, which has spent nearly 40 years presenting mainstream operatic repertoire in intimate and wonderfully engaging productions.
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