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Band of Brothers
Feb 01, 2009; ... Although Il Trovatore has been a fixture on the American opera scene for almost all of its life - the first U.S. performance, at Manhattans Academy of Music, followed the world premiere in Rome by litde more than two years - and has received coundess productions in opera houses throughout the ...
CORRECTION
Feb 01, 2009; ... CORRECTION: Jesús López-Cobos made his Metropolitan Opera debut conducting a 1978 performance oí Adriana Lecouvreur, not a 2005 performance of Manon Lescaut, as stated in The Casts (Dec). In ...
On the Beat
Feb 01, 2009; ... Petrova waxes lyrical; first hearing for Séance on a Wet Afternoon; Arroyo's foundation celebrates its fifth anniversary; Graham and Home shine at Opera News Awards. There comes a timem nearly every coloratura soprano's career when she stages a ritual burn- ing of the Queen of the ...
Sound Bites: Jeffrey Halili
Feb 01, 2009; ... Jeffrey Halili has the keen performing instincts that any good character tenor needs. In last season's New York City Opera revival of Verdi's Falstaff, the Toronto-born Halili was Bardolfo, a character who can easily get lost onstage. Not here: the tenor attacked the role with the brio and ...
Letter from Wexford
Feb 01, 2009; ... The 2008 season of Wexford Festival Opera was the most progressive in the company's fifty-eight-year history. Since its founding in 1951, Wexford has presented a season of operatic arcana every autumn. Until 2005, all performances were held in the much loved but pragmatically quite inadequate ...
ENTER MANRICO
Feb 01, 2009; ... TENOR MARCELO ÁLVAREZ CELEBRATES A NEW CHAPTER IN HIS MET CAREER BY TAKING ON THE TITLE ROLE IN THE COMPANY'S NEW IL TROVATORE. SOME TENDRS CAN BE DIFFICULT, OTHERS ARE JUST DIFFICULT TD FIND. Marcelo Álvarez is an effusive, expansive tenor, an estimable colleague and, by all ...
Chanson Triste
Feb 01, 2009; ... Sondra Radvanovsky, who sings Leonora in the Met's new Trovatore, has become that rare thing a true Verdi soprano. So why isn't her star shining brighter? ADAM WASSERMAN reports. In a vocal category as sparsely populated as that of the legitimate Verdi soprano, it probably ...
Depth Perception
Feb 01, 2009; ... With Adriana Lecouvreur and La Gioconda back in the Mets repertory this season, CONRAD L. OSBORNE analyzes the art of the "verismo mezzo." Alright, it's true: La Gioconda isn't really a verismo opera, and Adriana is debatable. So, die term "verismo" is here a shameless catch-all to ...
Wasn't It Romantic?
Feb 01, 2009; ... STEVE VINEBERG takes a look at the ways in which this month's Metropolitan Opera broadcast works represent various facets of the nineteenth-century sensibility. Lucia di Lammermoor, Il Trovatore, Adriana Lecouvreur and Eugene Onegin may be wildly different in musical style and subject ...
Molto Armiliato
Feb 01, 2009; ... Marco Armiliato has two qualities essential to a good maestro - a desire to serve the composer and a great love of singers. This month, he takes on both Lucia di Lammermoor and Adriana Lecouvreur at the Met. All too often, relations between instrumentalists and their conductor ...
No Strings
Feb 01, 2009; ... Jonathan Dove's The Adventures of Pinocchio, which has its U.S. premiere this month at Minnesota Opera, explores the darker aspects of the famous fairy tale. Everyone knows the story the one about the wooden puppet whose nose grows longer whenever he lies, and who eventually ...
Painting with Music
Feb 01, 2009; ... Achim Freyer uses the instincts of a visual artist to create fully dimensional characters for his Ring, which begins this month at Los Angeles Opera with Das Rheingold. On a hot day in July 2008, inside a cool, utilitarian structure that sits in a gritty Pico Boulevard neighborhood a ...
The Metropolitan Opera BROADCAST OF FEBRUARY 7, 1:00 P.M.: LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR
Feb 01, 2009; ... THE 2008-09 METROPOLITAN OPERA BROADCAST SEASON IS SPONSORED BY TOLL BROTHERS, AMERICA'S LUXURY HOME BUILDER®, WITH GENEROUS LONG-TERM SUPPORT FROM THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION AND THE VINCENT A. STABILE ENDOWMENT FOR BROADCAST MEDIA, AND THROUGH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM LISTENERS WORLDWIDE. Music ...
The Metropolitan Opera BROADCAST OF FEBRUARY 21, 1:00 P.M.: ADRIANA LECOUVREUR
Feb 01, 2009; ... THE 2008-09 METROPOLITAN OPERA BROADCAST SEASON IS SPONSORED BY TOLL BROTHERS, AMERICA'S LUXURY HOME BUILDER®, WITH GENEROUS LONG-TERM SUPPORT FROM THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION AND THE VINCENT A. STABILE ENDOWMENT FOR BROADCAST MEDIA, AND THROUGH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM LISTENERS WORLDWIDE. Music ...
The Metropolitan Opera BROADCAST OF FEBRUARY 14, 1:00 P.M.: EUGENE ONEGIN
Feb 01, 2009; ... THE 2008-09 METROPOLITAN OPERA BROADCAST SEASON IS SPONSORED BY TOLL BROTHERS, AMERICA'S LUXURY HOME BUILDER®, WITH GENEROUS LONG-TERM SUPPORT FROM THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION AND THE VINCENT A. STABILE ENDOWMENT FOR BROADCAST MEDIA, AND THROUGH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM LISTENERS WORLDWIDE. Music ...
In Review: NEW YORK CITY
Feb 01, 2009; ... Robert Lepage's new Met Damnation de Faust is an inventive take on Berlioz, saturated with effects that are striking to behold. NORTH AMERICA Adventurous French- Canadian director Robert Lepage has been staging Berlioz's Damnation de Faust here and there since 1999 and has now ...
The Metropolitan Opera BROADCAST OF FEBRUARY 28, 1:00 P.M.: IL TROVATORE
Feb 01, 2009; ... THE 2008-09 METROPOLITAN OPERA BROADCAST SEASON IS SPONSORED BY TOLL BROTHERS, AMERICA'S LUXURY HOME BUILDER®, WITH GENEROUS LONG-TERM SUPPORT FROM THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION AND THE VINCENT A. STABILE ENDOWMENT FOR BROADCAST MEDIA, AND THROUGH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM LISTENERS WORLDWIDE. Music ...
In Review: WASHINGTON, D.C.
Feb 01, 2009; ... Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia will probably never enjoy a prominent spot in any company's repertoire (the Met hasn't given the work a second thought since a single 1904 performance that even Caruso's presence onstage couldn't save), but its dark plot, melodic richness and vivid orchestral coloring ...
In Review: ATLANTA
Feb 01, 2009; ... The artistic quality of Atlanta Opera's stage productions has been steadily on the rise since the 2004 appointment of gener- al director Dennis Hanthorn, who has made every effort to recruit stellar singing actors to the company. For AOs autumn production of CindereUa (as La Cenerento- la was ...
In Review: CHICAGO
Feb 01, 2009; ... Lyric Opera of Chicago's announcement of a new production of Alban Berg's completed Lulu possibly engendered more anticipatory excitement than any of the company's offerings in recent seasons. As seen on November 7, Paul Curran's beautifully realized mounting, which updated proceedings to ...