Created in Birmingham (Free subscription) | yesterday
It’s taken me a while to mention this one although it’s been on my radar for ages. Birmingham Opera Company are doing Othello on 7 dates between 5-19 December. It’s going to be amazing and epic because, by and large, amazing and epic are what Birmingham Opera Company do. Like last year’s King Idomeneo, this will be [...]
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | yesterday
A LIVERPOOL-BORN artistic director received a CBE for services to opera.
Opera Today (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Like most opera companies, the Mozart/da Ponte trifecta of Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte are central to Opera Australia’s repertoire.
Watch Free TV Online (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Chinese filmmaker Chen Daming's ensemble comedy drama ONE FOOT OFF THE GROUND opens with the plight of a celebrated opera company buckling under the weight of financial difficulties. When the troupe collapses for good, Daming cross-cuts between the lives of the laid-off performers, each of whom desperately attempts to pull in extra income with a "substitute job": one sells...
Xinhuanet (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
The staging of "The Golden Cangue," a Taiwan Peking Opera, has complemented the 11th China Theater Festiva.
Mike Woodward's Blog (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
... Attended a full day conference organised by O.M.T.F. , studying the results of a recent survey of opera companies - the conclusion seemed to be suggesting that those of that want to survive the next few years of lean funding times, will need to be leaner and more adaptable than ever - trying to build alliances wherever possible in order to pool the slim and overstretched resources...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
New opera company shows promise in its first production T he void left by the demise of the Baltimore Opera Company last year will not be easily filled. That reality was reinforced Sunday afternoon with the debut performance by the Baltimore Opera Theatre before a modest, appreciative, audience at the Hippodrome.
Slipped disc (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Contrary to a slew of press reviews that called it 'trashy' and 'pointless', I found Rupert Goold's production of Turandot at English National Opera apt and often exhilarating. Goold, 37, is the latest in a parade of youngish theatre and film...
Movie Dearest (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
I knew next to nothing about George Handel's opera Tamerlano prior to attending LA Opera's company premiere of the composer's 1724 work on November 21. While I have a mixed reaction to the production, the opera's themes — musical and political — are timely and perhaps more pertinent now than ever. Inspired by the historical saga of Mongol warlord Timur the Lame...
