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July 2008
General
Prima Donnas and Picnics Summer Opera around the UK Britain’s regular companies take a little time off over July and August, but there is no shortage…
March 2008
General
With his new opera The Adventures of Pinocchio (the subject of the current OperaLovers podcast), Jonathan Dove has pulled off the trick of winning over audiences – not least children…
Eugene Onegin at the Royal Opera House
March 2008
Performance
Baritone Gerald Finley, who features in the next OperaLovers podcast, starred in the recent production of Eugene Onegin at the Royal Opera House. Yehuda Shapiro was at the performance…
March 2008
Performance
With a star-studded revival at the Royal Opera House (starring Anna Netrebko, pictured), La traviata has recently been at the top of operalovers’ minds. Verdi’s Violetta is just one of…
Salome, Sacrilege and the Censor
February 2008
General
Richard Strauss’s Salome, recently seen in a new production at the Royal Opera House, presents a biblical event in sensational terms. JULIAN GRANT examines operatic treatments of stories from the…
February 2008
General
Opera is an amazing art form – possibly the supreme art form, but what exactly is opera? First and foremost, it is the musical enactment of drama, so the…
San Francisco's new beginnings
January 2008
General
San Francisco David Gockley, San Francisco opera’s newish general director, has defined his career with the commissioning of new works. Over three decades at Houston Grand Opera,…
November 2007
Performance
Architecture and opera came together at the end—and in the aftermath—of Frank Lloyd Wright’s career, but not in the manner that America’s most famous architect might have envisaged. Nor…
November 2007
General
As if the pressure of a new Staatsoper Ring cycle wasn’t enough for any conductor, Franz Welser-Möst comes to it this month—Sven-Eric Bechtolf’s production begins with Die Walküre, and…
November 2007
Other
Santiago’s Teatro Municipal—one of the great opera houses of South America—celebrates its 150th anniversary this month. But the performance on 17 September 1857 of Verdi’s Ernani was by…
