The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Richard Wagner's four-opera "Der Ring des Nibelungen" — better known in English as the "Ring Cycle" — follows the tale of golden ring that confers great powers upon its owner. But it also carries a deadly curse. Staging this epic multi-evening extravaganza can really put an opera company on the map. The Washington National Opera, with its...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The China National Peking Opera Company (CNPOC) is performing "The Water Margin — The Vows of Song Jiang and the Heroes of Mount Liang Shan Po" across Japan until Dec. 10. The style of Peking opera, which is also known as Beijing opera, has existed for more than 200 years as a form of traditional Chinese theater that combines music, vocal performance, mime,...
Liberal England (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Thanks to the Wartime Housewife I learn the the upper Welland Valley has its very own opera company: Opera Minima offers a variety of opera-based events, including workshops, masterclasses and a range of style of performance from themed programmes to semi-staged double or triple bills, semi-staged with piano accompaniment. Performances take place in The Old Corset Factory...
Charles and Fred (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Odessa in the sunshine! , originally uploaded by CharlesFred . We were taken to the Opera when we were in Odessa. There is a very beautifuil Opera House there and this was the first time that I have ever been to an opera. The opera was The Barber of Seville, by Rossini, performed by a local opera company. The songs were sung in Italian and there were...
Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
In 2010, the Met will similarly replace its literal staging of Wagner’s Ring with a new production by Canadian director Robert Lepage, whose productions are the furthest thing imaginable from traditionalism. His latest, a Stravinsky festival at the Canadian Opera Company, fills the orchestra pit with water and makes singers operate puppets. Far from being scared off by such ideas,...
Opera Chic (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
An inscription to $100 million gift-giver, David H. Koch, on the inside cover of the evening's program, first and foremost,...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
"The Tales of Hoffmann," Jacques Offenbach's bounteously imaginative mingling of reality and fantasy, stands as one of the opera world's most peculiar and wonderful masterpieces.
San Francisco Sentinel (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Baritone Marco Vratogna and soprano Zvetelina Vassileva co-star in Verdi’s masterpiece opening this Sunday at the War Memorial Opera House By Seán Martinfield Sentinel Editor and Publisher Photo by Lynn Imanaka San Francisco Opera presents Giuseppe Verdi’s masterwork OTELLO, opening Sunday afternoon, November 8th, with six subsequent performances through December 2nd...
Night After Night (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Bleecker Street Opera Company: L'Amore dei Tre Re at the Theatres at 45 Bleecker Street The New York Times, October 20, 2009
"Bank on California" Money Launderi (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
The Opera Buffs gives young singers more than applause...The volunteer group of opera enthusiasts also gives them a helping hand. Recently "the Buffs" awarded four aspiring opera stars of tomorrow $20,000 as Career Achievement Awards.... more
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Canadian tenor Ben Heppner will not be able to sing at the Canadian Opera Company's 60th anniversary gala concert on Nov. 7. The COC announced on Saturday evening that Heppner has withdrawn because he has not fully recovered from a viral infection he caught in October. He will be replaced by Mexican star, tenor Ramón Vargas, as well as additional soloists, including Canadian baritone...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
You can celebrate a diamond anniversary with a big, noisy party. Or you can, like the Canadian Opera Company, make it into A Very Special Occasion.
Brian Dickie (Free subscription) | yesterday
Last night's birthday concert for the Canadian Opera Company was to have been a grand Ben Hepner concert. Poor Ben, and how remorseful he must have felt, had to cancel at a very late stage. The magicians of the COC,...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
New Canadian Opera Company music director Johannes Debus thought he was flying in for a party – tonight's 60th anniversary gala concert at the Four Seasons Centre.
maybe mezzo (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
... to many things. A big favourite, however, was Gilbert and Sullivan. Every year the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company visited the Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool and we would go and see them. Oh I loved those productions. The productions were great and and singers so adept in the roles. It was the time of Valerie Masterson , Thomas Lawler and John Reed who were superb. They were on the recordings...
