...dance, which was better than it sounds (unless that sounds good). I preferred our nights at the jewel-box theaters of the national opera ( Carmen ), ballet ( Romeo and Juliet ), and symphony (Tchaikovsky and Dvorak ). I vowed that when I got...

In this article: Prague, Psychology, Communism, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Romeo and Juliet, St. Nicholas, Carmen, and Frank Gehry

...from Faure, Schubert and Liszt. From seven concerts in 2005, Les Concerts de Poche this year organised 52 and in 2010 will add the opera Carmen - a one-off event that will cost 300,000 euros to stage. Ordinary concerts cost 12,000...

In this article: Felicity Lott, Tax, Paris, Champagne, Carmen, French Socialist, and Martine Aubry

...as Hagen , soprano Irene Theorin as Bruennhilde and tenor Jon Fredric West as Siegfried. (AP Photo/Washington National Opera, Hanya Chlala) NO SALES ` Pagliacci ,' ` Suor Angelica ' hit some high, low notes On opening night, the popular...

In this article: Siegfried, Washington National Opera, Hagen, Gotterdammerung, Richard Wagner, Gidon Saks, and Jermaine Jackson

...as Hagen creates perhaps the performance's most chilling visual image in Act 3 when, after mortally wounding Siegfried by stabbing him in the back with his spear, he runs to the opposite side of the stage and stands there, panting and holding...

In this article: Siegfried, Hagen, Washington, Goetterdaemmerung, Alberich, and Francesca Zambello

...well with the brutality of the plot and the spirit of verismo, the opera realism movement of which Pagliacci is a prime example. Pagliacci is a star vehicle for the tenor, with three big arias, including the most famous in all of opera. In...

In this article: Pagliacci, Suor Angelica, Giacomo Puccini, Aretha Franklin, Suicide, and Ruggero Leoncavallo

...Night Music since 1983, It is also the company s first Broadway musical since opening the opera house in 1996, if you don t count Porgy and Bess , which began life on Broadway before migrating into opera houses. The troubles Saturday...

In this article: Stephen Sondheim, A Little Night Music, Broadway, Send in the Clowns, Amplification, and Orchestration

Opera s push into the mainstream Turandot at the English National Opera is being directed by actor Rupert Goold "You don't sell opera like a pair of jeans," opera director Denis Krief was quoted as saying last week as he reacted to the...

In this article: Turandot, Rupert Goold, Katherine Jenkins, Gary Barlow, La Scala, Royal Opera House, and Carmen

...to describe what Denver 's Opera Colorado put up on the Ellie Caulkins Opera House stage to open their new season. Their performance of " The Tales of Hoffmann " also earned another set of words: overstimulating, charmless, overindulgent. For...

In this article: Denver, Jacques Offenbach, The Tales of Hoffmann, Jules Barbier, M.C. Escher, and Opera Colorado

Soprano Kelly Kaduce stars in Suor Angelica. What: Florida Grand Opera presents `` Pagliacci '' and `` Suor Angelica '' When: 7 p.m. Saturday; 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20, 24, 28 and Dec. 3 and 5; 2 p.m. Nov. 22 Where: Adrienne Arsht Center...

In this article: Pagliacci, Giacomo Puccini, Elle Woods, Suor Angelica, Jermaine Jackson, and William Berger

...was just as tickled, one suspects, by his bilingual patter, his larking around and his whimsical props (a whip for the Te Deum from Tosca?) as by the ten numbers he actually sang. Especially as these were delivered between inconsequential...

In this article: Bryn Terfel, Cardiff, St David's Hall, Mephistopheles, Don Giovanni, Faust, It Ain't Necessarily So, Sweeney Todd, Tosca, and Otello

...three operas during the past few seasons, was well on its way to completing its first Ring Cycle. But its upcoming production of " Gotterdammerung " was postponed indefinitely, yet another artistic casualty of the economic recession. To...

In this article: Siegfried, Gotterdammerung, Richard Wagner, Washington National Opera, Recession, Gunther, and Alberich

...a serene close. The soprano (Nuccia Focile, sounding game but out of her element) offers a paean to wedding bells, with a snippet of " Tristan und Isolde " for flavoring, followed by a lusty scherzo for chorus alone. Most ravishing is the...

In this article: Sergei Rachmaninoff, Semyon Bychkov, Second Symphony, Edgar Allan Poe, On the merits, Konstantin Balmont, WDR Symphony Orchestra, Tristan und Isolde, San Francisco Symphony, and Carey Bell

It was supposed to be a triumph, then it was supposed to be a tragedy. The Washington National Opera's performance of " Gotterdammerung ," the culmination of Wagner 's four-opera "Ring" cycle, was offered Saturday night at the Kennedy Center...

In this article: Francesca Zambello, Washington National Opera, Hagen, and Siegfried

...stint as resident stage director. Somewhat quixotically, he has returned to direct Verdi 's most intricate, high-traffic opera, Falstaff , opening Friday on the academy's Helen Corning Warden Theater stage - which seems even smaller than...

In this article: Beverly Sills, Franco Corelli, Thomas Beecham, Falstaff, Psychology, New York City Opera, and Joan Sutherland

...creature, conjuring up tenderness and refined beauty of tone from musicians clearly as bewitched as himself by the score's echoes of Tristan und Isolde , composed during the same period. The Tannhauser overture, too, had appealing and...

In this article: Christoph Eschenbach, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Anton Bruckner, Sixth Symphony, Tin, Tristan und Isolde, Tannhauser, and Alps

...would make an ideal complement to the two Italian classics rounding out the company's 2009-10 lineup: "The Barber of Seville" and " Tosca." Also drawing Carpenter to "Tales" was the chance to join the Boston Lyric Opera and Opera...

In this article: The Tales of Hoffmann, Jacques Offenbach, Opera Colorado, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, The Nutcracker, and Denver POST

...a revival of La Traviata and a new production of Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur. But before that there's the matter of Carmen , which she was to have sung for the first time on stage at a New Year's Eve gala at the Met, followed by performances...

In this article: Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna, Carmen, Antonio Pappano, Levon Sayan, Richard Eyre, Covent Garden, Tosca, and Jonas Kaufmann

The operas included in the future volumes are " Otello ," "Samson & Delila," " Lohengrin ," " Andrea Chenier ," " The Tales of Hoffman ," " Carmen " and more. Domingo, who turns 69 in January, currently serves as the artistic head of the Los Angeles...

In this article: DVD, Placido Domingo, Tosca, Manon Lescaut, The Tales of Hoffman, Carmen, Tamerlano, Otello, La fanciulla del West, and Lohengrin