Archive for April, 2009

The University of Arizona Opera Theater’s The Rape of Lucretia Is Layered With Lyric Intensity. »

By Administrator on Apr 26, 2009 in English opera | 0 Comments

Sometimes an opera will reveal its artistic nature in a way the listener had not expected. That is what happened at the Opera Theater’s April 3rd performance of Benjamin Britten’s Rape of Lucretia. Composed after the success of his thoroughly orchestrated Peter Grimes, Britten chose to make his Lucretia a two-act chamber opera, with 13 [...]

Beloved Puccini…exquisite Minghella »

By Administrator on Apr 10, 2009 in Italian opera | 0 Comments

In today’s opera world, many opera companies are anxious to seek out theater directors to flesh out the story lines of the operas they are presenting; opera impresarios are overjoyed when they can find a director who can excite their audiences. From the reviews some of these productions receive online and in the press, [...]

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    The articles on Rigoletto, L'Elisir d'amore, Khovanshchina, Macbeth, Boris Godunov, La Forza del destino and Wagner's Ring Cycle were first published in Transactions of the Association of Russian-American Scholars in the USA, Vol 33, 2004.

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