Living at the Opera

download information here

From Seen and Heard International: Rossini Opera Festival (ROF) Pesaro (1) La Cenerentola: Rossini Opera Festival (ROF) Pesaro (2) – Sigismondo Rossini Opera Festival (ROF) Pesaro (3) – Demetrio e Polibio For more information about the Rossini Opera Festival please visit : Rossini Opera Festival.it

From Seen and Heard International By: Bernard Jacobson; Picture © Rozarii Lynch / Seattle Opera Seattle Opera, soloists, cond. Asher Fisch, dir. Peter Kazaras, set and costume designer Robert Israel, lighting designer Duane Schuler, chorus master Beth Kirchhoff, Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, Seattle, 31.7.2010 (BJ) Annalena Persson (Isolde) and Clifton Forbis (Tristan) Wagner’s Tristan und [...]

What do Nelson Riddle, that composer and music arranger extraordinaire and the University of Arizona’s Orchestral and Conducting program have in common? A lot, it seems. In 1998, the University of Arizona foundation received a gift from the estate of Riddle’s widow, Naomi, establishing the Nelson Riddle endowed chair. A. Edward Ezor, Naomi’s executor, saw [...]

From Seen and Heard International By: José M Irurzun; Picture © Bayerischen Staatsoper / Wilfried Hösl Soloists, Bayerisches Staatsorchester. Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper. Conductor: Marco Armiliato. Nationatheater, Munich 19. 7.2010. (JMI) Juha Uusitalo (Scarpia) and Karita Mattila (Tosca) What a great pleasure it is to attend Munich’s Summer Opera Festival year on year, one of [...]

From Seen and Heard International By: José M Irurzun Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, Conductor: Michele Mariotti, Teatro Real de Madrid 29. 6.2010 (JMI) Teatro Real’s ‘Great Voices’ cycle comes to an end with this concert featuring two of Madrid’s most well loved singers. The concert raised great expectations, especially after Leo Nucci’s triumph in another [...]

From Seen and Heard International By: Harvey Steiman; Pictures © Cory Weaver Wagner, Die Walküre: Soloists, chorus and orchestra, Donald Runnicles, conductor. San Francisco Opera, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco. 22.6.2010 (HS) Valkyries parachuting down in aviatrix garb, warriors dressed in World War I uniforms, Wotan as a three-piece-suited captain of industry, and Valhalla [...]

From Seen and Heard International By: Harvey Steiman Soloists, chorus and orchestra of San Francisco Opera, Nicola Luisotti, conductor. War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, 9.6.2010 (HS) Deborah Voigt has proven herself formidable in Wagner roles such as Sieglinde in Die Walküre or Senta in Die Fliegende Hollander, and Strauss heroines such as the Prima [...]

Gallery A of “Il matrimonio segreto” Gallery B of “Il matrimonio segreto” If an audience’s enthusiastic response to an opera performance can be taken as an indicator of a successful production, then the U of A’s Opera Theater presentation of Domenico Cimarosa’s 1792 opera buffa, Il matrimonio segreto can be considered as one of its [...]

The following photos are courtesy of the University of Arizona Opera Theater. © Show dates: April 8th and April 10th, 2010