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The Rehearsal Studio (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
In preparing my listening skills for the opening of Giuseppe Verdi 's Simon Boccanegra to launch the new San Francisco Opera season, I stumbled across a "family resemblance" that struck me as too good to be accidental. In the second scene of the first act, a crowd of angry protesters gathered in the street outside the Ducal palace bursts into the council chamber; and, for the life of...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Sophisticates often scoff at Verdi's "Aida," but when his seductive and heart-throbbing music is fully realized, even they are not immune.MUSIC REVIEWAIDACOMPOSER: Giuseppe Verdi, witha libretto by Antonio GhislanzoniWHEN: Through Aug. 23WHERE: Seattle Opera,at McCaw HallTICKETS: $25-$172, with various discounts; 206-389-7676or seattleopera.orgThere was no mistaking the rapturous...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
... and heart on-the-sleeve tenor voice. One track, Barcelona, features lyrics from the libretto of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Macbeth. He was one of several pop and stage composers commissioned to write new works in English by the Met and Lincoln Center two years ago. News of the project's demise reached France yesterday, with Libération newspaper describing it as a "sad declaration for...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
... that concert was redeemed by the evening Prom, which contained just one work, the great Requiem of Giuseppe Verdi. Some would say Verdi's work is itself tasteless for giving a religious text such a passionately operatic treatment. But this performance, from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and the Crouch End Festival Chorus under Jiri Belohlávek, was so concentrated that...
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Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
"Dirty Secrets" is a double bill that will be presented Dec. 5 through 8, and which features the world premiere of "Three Camilles" by Canadian choreographer, costumer designer and writer Marina Harris. It is based on the Alexandre Dumas Jr. novel "The Lady of the Camellias," which inspired Giuseppe Verdi's opera "La Traviata" and Greta Garbo's 1936 film "Camille."
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
... Church, 5100 The Toledo, Belmont Shore. August 24, 29, 31 and Sept. 5, 8 p.m.: "Rigoletto" by Giuseppe Verdi. August 23, 30, Sept. 7, 8 p.m.: "Carmen" by Georges Bizet. Sept. 7, 14, 2 p.m.: "The Ballad of Baby Doe" by Douglas Moore. This 20th Century American opera chronicles the romance of the Silver King (and Colorado Senator), Horace Tabor, and his second wife, Baby Doe. Tickets...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008
Giuseppe Verdi's "Aida," set in ancient Egypt, opens Seattle Opera's 2008-09 season with plenty of pageantry in the Parisian grand- opera...
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Press Releases (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
... lyric festival that reigns supreme in every summer since 1913 when it was inaugurated with Giuseppe Verdi's Aida to which celebrities came from all over the world.At the Roman theatre takes place every year since 1948 when it was inaugurated with the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, theatre Summer that also collects many distinguished participants. Lately have added also musical performances...
