Living at the Opera

This summer Ewa Podles returned to ROF after an absence of eight years. Why so long between engagements? Well, that’s how long it has taken ROF and Madame Podles to settle their differences. It seems that while the Polish contralto was performing in Le Nozze di Teti e di Peleo in 2001, she had some [...]

From Seen and Heard International
by: Harvey Steiman
Soloists, orchestra and chorus of San Francisco Opera, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco. 19.9.2009 (HS)
There’s nothing quite like a Verdi opera with big, dramatic voices, and the cast in San Francisco Opera’s initial offering for the 2009 fall season unleashed something like a hurricane with Verdi’s familiar Il [...]

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Gregory Kunde in recital at the Rossini Opera Festival August, 2009
© Amati Bacciardi. Official ROF photos.
Interview With Gregory Kunde
Q. According to your biography at ROF, you started singing in Pesaro in 1992.
How did that come about?
It was a bit strange actually. I auditioned for Mo. Zedda by chance back in 1989 while I [...]

From Seen and Heard International
by: Glyn Pursglove; Pictures © Bill Cooper
(New production) Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, Andrea Licata, conductor, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 12.9.2009 (GPu)
In May of 1856 an anonymous writer reviewed, in the pages of the Illustrated London News, the London premiere of Verdi’s opera in which the role of [...]