The Operas of Verdi: Volume 3: From Don Carlos to Falstaff: From "Don Carlos" to "Falstaff" Vol 3 (Clarendon Paperbacks)
My Buenos Aires Travel Guide (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
The Teatro Colon of Buenos Aires has presented its program for the 2010 Season. After three years of restoration works, the companies will return to the theater's concert hall, that will be inaugurated on May 25th, 2010, with a Reopening Gala in celebration of the May Revolution Bicentenary. The 2010 Season will feature great figures as Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta Paloma Herrera, and Yo-Yo Ma. The...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Please check out my article and video (attached to the page) for the Pittsburgh Opera's upcoming production of "Falstaff," please do. Mark Delavan is positively hilarious in our video of him getting on the makeup to become Verdi's (Shakespeare's) old knight.
grecchinois (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
Inside the front cover of my Falstaff score is a little sticker that states that the score was a gift from the University of Michigan Friends of Opera, an organization that sponsored voice scholarships and opera productions at the University. In the fall semester of my senior year at the University, I learned the very first role I ever performed in Italian out of that Falstaff score - Fenton. The year...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
Verdi's "Falstaff," which the Washington National Opera presented Saturday night at the Kennedy Center Opera House, is one of the great late works of art.
Ionarts (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
Timothy Mix (Ford) in the Jealousy Aria, Falstaff, Washington National Opera (photo by Karin Cooper)On Saturday night Washington National Opera opened the second production of its downsized fall season, Verdi's Falstaff. The regrettable postponement of the company's American Ring Cycle led to a hasty but resourceful reconfiguration of this year's programming, quickly putting together a group of
The Classical Beat (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
Now up on the Web, a review that will run in tomorrow's paper: Verdi's "Falstaff" at the Washington National Opera, by Anne Midgette. T.L. Ponick, in the Washington Times, thought quite the opposite.
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
Opera fans attended Saturday's opening-night performance of the Washington National Opera's "Falstaff" at the Kennedy Center Opera House with great expectations. Boasting a great cast and a nifty stage concept, the production had a great deal going for it. But, alas, the evening was a bit of a letdown. Giuseppe Verdi's last opera, first performed when he was 80 years old, "Falstaff"...
英文人行道 et cetera, et cetera (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Spotlight: Giuseppe Verdi What was Verdi's last opera? Italian composer of operas Giuseppe Verdi was born on this date in 1813. Though he showed musical promise as a youngster, Verdi's early progress was not a given. He hoped to study organ at the Milan Conservatory, but was not accepted to the school, due to what they deemed his inadequate training. So, Verdi studied privately; his pieces met with...
The Earl Okin Show (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
Click here to download 1. FALSTAFF – Verdi. Dal Labbro In Canto. FERRUCCIO TAGLIAVINI. 2. J’Attendrai – Poterat/Olivieri/Rastelli/Rallo. TINO ROSSI. 3. The Minor Drag - Waller. THOMAS ‘FATS’ WALLER & HIS BUDDIES. 4. CARMEN – Bizet. L’Amour Est Un Oiseau Rebelle. CONCHITA SUPERVIA. 5. Goodnight, Vienna – Maschwitz/Posford . AL BOWLLY. 6. My Wife’s...
Ionarts (Free subscription) | 03/08/2009
This year’s Munich Opera Festival does not end, as has been the recent tradition, with Die Meistersinger, but instead Verdi’s Falstaff. That—and three more Verdi operas in the last week: Macbeth, Luisa Miller, and Otello—goes some way in showing Bachler’s passion for Verdi. It might also point to Bachler’s enjoyment of shaking things up just a little. The production...
I'll think of something later (Free subscription) | 15/07/2009
HE: I love you! And at last I've found you. SHE: If only I could get my arms around you. Amanda Holden's English translation of Boito's brilliant Shakespearean libretto makes Verdi's Falstaff fun enough at the ENO. But even those Pountney and Warchus productions pale alongside what the directorial genius of the day Richard Jones has to say about Windsor all'Italiana at Glyndebourne (or had, because...
mutations of mortality (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
The Codex Sinaiticus has been virtually reassembled and made available on line to those who can read Hellenistic Greek. It has been an occasion for atheists to disparage the Bible and talk about discrepancies. Actually there is only one major point of issue between early manuscripts, and that is whether or not to include the story of the woman taken in adultery at the end of John chapter 8. (Though...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009
A wearying phenomenon called Regieoper makes opera directors superior to Mozart. Where next? Sitting in the Garter Inn, Falstaff taps at his typewriter and puffs on his fag under the gaze of a portrait of the king – George VI rather than Henry IV – and we know at once where we are: Not in 15th-century Windsor – that is to say, where Verdi, like Shakespeare, set his work – but...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 02/06/2009
EAST SUSSEX, ENGLAND - "There really should be a Glyndebourne club so people would know where to meet," said the woman standing in the middle of London's Victoria Station.
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 31/05/2009
Glyndebourne has kicked off the 75th anniversary of its summer festival with a happy choice of its two opening productions. Director Richard Jones and designer Ultz, who provoked howls of rage with a perverse "Tartan Terror" Macbeth two years ago, drew gales of laughter this year with their staging of Falstaff.
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