Living at the Opera

Monday, March 22nd in Crowder Hall at 7:30pm with a reception to follow in the Green Room

Accompanist: Ian Houghton, who is a DMA piano performance student.

Recital Selections Include:
Selections from “Die schöne Müllerin” by Schubert
3 songs by Rachmaninoff
The song cycle “Air Chantés” by Poulenc
Selections from “A Young Man’s Exhortation” by Gerald Finzi

From Seen and Heard International
By:James L. Zychowicz; Pictures © Dan Rest
Leoš Janá?ek’s 1921 opera Katya Kabanova is based on the 1860 play The Storm by Alexander Ostrovsky, and the title of the source is a key element in its musical adaptation. Just as the storm is critical to Ostrovsky’s play, the tempest depicted at the [...]

Photo to the left: Gregory Kunde as Antenore and Juan Diego Flórez as Ilo Act One Scene V11 © Amati Bacciardi. Official ROF photos.

Zelmira* was the last of nine operas Rossini composed for the San Carlo Opera House in Naples in 1822. It turned out to be his most adventurous musical drama of all of [...]

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 [...]

For more information, please contact Nick at nick@livingattheopera.com or Marisa at bigmari11@gmail.com.

UA Opera Theatre with the Arizona Symphony Orchestra
The Crucible, by Robert Ward

November 20, Friday, 7:30 p.m.
November 22, Sunday, 3:00 p.m.
Crowder Hall, $15, 12, 10

Opera Scenes
Student Soloists

December 1, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.
Crowder Hall,

Amelia Rieman Opera Competition
Student Competition

January 31, Sunday, 2:00 p.m.
Crowder Hall, $Free

UA Opera Theatre with the Arizona Symphony Orchestra
Il Matrimonio Segreto, by Domenico Cimarosa

April 8-10, Thursday-Saturday, [...]

Di Donato being greeted by the audience at the Rossini Theater in Pesaro on August 19th, 2008.
Interview With Joyce Di Donato
Q. Why did you decide to do a concert in Pesaro this summer?
I was asked by Maestro Zedda if I would come to give a tribute concert to Maria Malibran in honor of her bicentenial, [...]