Verdi Collection (Inc Nabucco/ Ernani/ Il Corsaro /La Forza Del Destino) [2009] [NTSC]
The Glittering Eye (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Victor Hugo is one of the great jewels of French literature. It’s sad that, in America at least, he’s mostly thought of as the provider of plot lines for the musical Les Miserables and for Verdi operas. Verdi’s 1844 Ernani was the first of Verdi’s many operas that used Hugo plot lines, in [...]
Andrew Patner: The View from Here (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Here is my Thursday October 29, 2009 Chicago Sun-Times and suntimes.com review of Tuesday October 27 2009's opening night of Verdi's Ernani at Lyric Opera of Chicago. While cuts in the opera remain, those in the printed version of my...
OC (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Unfamiliar with Ernani and armed only with a fascinated admiration for the hair-raising soprano aria "Ernani, Involami", I went to the opening night Tuesday at Lyric expecting solely to be dazzled by Sondra Radvanovsky's performance of that Millo staple. I was gravely mistaken. What I unearthed instead was a cavalcade of treasures that thrilled me no end, as I caught my breath numerous times,...
Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Photo by yan.da If you're jonesing for some opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago is your enabler. Maybe you can wait until the season preview concert on September 21. Maybe you can even hold out until the opening night gala on September 26. But if you need a taste of that sweet, sweet opera - and don't have the do-re-mi to be a subscriber (one of the requirements for the exclusive preview) or to afford...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 29/01/2009
Said conservative company's plans include Tosca, The Merry Widow and Marriage of Figaro, but there are also rare Verdi (Ernani), Janácek (Katya with Karita Mattila), and the Fausts of Gounod and Berlioz....
An Unamplified Voice (Free subscription) | 12/12/2008
As has become traditional , on this blogoversary I offer some highlights from the past year's posting: On Puccini's Manon Lescaut On Johan Botha as Otello On Peter Grimes as sea god (see second part of post) On Ernani and Verdi's later tragedies Review -- Ruth Ann Swenson in La Traviata On Tristan & Isolde and Heppner & Voigt On Ramon Vargas' unscheduled appearance in Ballo On Jonathan Miller's...
NewYorkology: A New York Travel Gui (Free subscription) | 02/04/2008
It is Wednesday, April 2 and here are a few items on today's calendar: The Studio Museum in Harlem opens "Flow," "Charles Ethan Porter: African-American Master of Still Life," "Harlem Postcards" and "StudioSound." Manhattan Trinity plays Carnegie Hall Verdi’s "Ernani"...
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