Sharon Azrieli: Final Act
Update (Sept. 19, 2024): Sharon Azrieli is sad to announce that she will not be performing with the Opera de Montreal in Barber of Seville…
Browsing: Rossini
Sortilegio: Vampire Opera by Raum-Delorme-Scalia
In a faraway city named Cérulée, a 200-year-old power-hungry vampire has been unleashed and the inhabitants must quickly find a way to neutralize her powers…
Fated Couples Face the Music at Glimmerglass 2023
REVIEW: of the Glimmerglass 2023 Season, including: Roméo et Juliette, the 1867 opera composed by Charles Gounod, with a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel…
La Scena Tête-à-tête: Michael Spyres
In this Tête à tête segment, Don Adriano interviews Michael Spyres for La Scena Musicale during his passage through Montreal to sing at the Lanaudière…
Rossini: Petite Messe Solonelle (Pentatone)
As proof that the Devil has the best tunes, it is an established fact that atheists write the best religious music. Verdi, Elgar, Saint-Saens, Janacek,…
Through the Glimmerglass, 2018 – Reflections of a Turbulent Century
PROFILE/REVIEW: of the 2018 Glimmerglass Festival Season: Silent Night by Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell; West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents and Stephen…
A Dream Amidst the Ashes – Opéra de Montréal’s Beautiful Cenerentola
REVIEW: of La Cenerentola by Gioachino Rossini (libretto by Jacopo Ferretti) at l’Opéra de Montréal (viewed opening night, November 11, 2017 at Montreal’s Place des…
With Rossini’s Otello, LoftOpera Tells a Hell of a Wife’s Tale
REVIEW: LoftOpera’s new production of Rossini’s Otello; INTERVIEWS: with maestro Sean Kelly, director John de los Santos, and soprano Cecilia Violetta López. They’ve Done It…
Mezzo-Soprano Stephanie Blythe Mans Up! – for Rossini’s Seminal Tancredi at Opera Philadelphia
REVIEW: Opera Philadelphia’s new production of Rossini’s early masterpiece, Tancredi; INTERVIEWS: with the production’s stars – mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe, soprano Brenda Rae. “What a wonderful…
Witches! Thieves! Cutthroats! At Glimmerglass!
OPERA REVIEWS: The Crucible (August 20); The Thieving Magpie (August 20); Sweeney Todd (August 21); La bohème (August 22, matinee) INTERVIEW: Francesca Zambello Salem Village…
