Category Archives: Music

The Swedish Royal Opera Presents TURANDOT

The Swedish Royal Opera Presents: TURANDOT Awesome game of love He who wishes to marry Princess Turandot must first solve three riddles. Wrong answer punishable by beheading. Prince Calaf, who is in Peking, in enamoured by the beauty of the … Continue reading

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Sally Beamish and her new opera (Interview)

  Sally Beamish and her new opera (Interview by Scotland Opera) Posted by Scotlandopera.org on October 11, 2013 Sally Beamish is a remarkably talented and versatile composer, her output including symphonies, concertos for violin, viola, cello, oboe, saxophone, trumpet percussion, … Continue reading

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Successful Don Giovanni toured Scotland

Scottish Opera Presents: Don Giovanni 2013 Sir Thomas was one of the greatest interpreters of the title role in recent years, and has not always been entirely complimentary about the directors who were in charge of the various stagings he … Continue reading

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Massenet’s “Cendrillon” (Cinderella) at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona

 Presents: Cendrillon Jules Massenet 20, 22, 23, 27, 28 and 30 December 2013 and 2, 3, 5 and 7 January 2014 A fairy tale Jules Massenet’s score makes it perfectly clear: Cendrillon is a fairy tale. Laurent Pelly takes the … Continue reading

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Gian Carlo Menotti’s “The old maid and the thief” in Denmark

The Royal Danish Theater Presents:     “The devil couldn’t do what a woman can: make a thief out of an honest man.” So writes composer Gian Carlo Menotti in the libretto of his The Old Maid and the Thief, … Continue reading

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“KATJA KABANOVA” IN DENMARK

The Danish National Opera presents: Katja Kabanova  Can you die of love? Katja, a passionate unhappily married woman has a love affair that rips apart her world. Known as the ‘Czech Puccini’, Janacek tells her tragic story with music of … Continue reading

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“RUSALKA” in Copenhagen

The Royal Danish Theater presents: The lyric fairytale opera Rusalka, with its tales of mermaids and wood nymphs, is based on Hans Christian Andersen’s magical story of the Little Mermaid who wished to change her body and her identity to … Continue reading

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“The Flying Dutchman” in San Francisco

The Flying Dutchman Music by Richard Wagner Libretto by the composer PRODUCTION In Wagner’s first masterpiece, a ship’s captain is condemned to endlessly travel the seas in search of true love. The “masterful” Patrick Summers (Houston Chronicle) conducts a cast … Continue reading

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LA TRAVIATA in Detroit

DETROIT OPERA HOUSE Presents La Traviata (The Fallen Woman)
 Opera in three acts 
Music: Giuseppe Verdi
 Libretto:  Francesco Maria Piave
 Based on the play: La dame aux Camélias by Alexander Dumas
 Premiere: Venice, 1853 Running time: About 2.5 hrs
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Verdi’s Bicentennial Celebration: Macbeth in Copenhagen

THE ROYAL DANISH THEATER PRESENTS: Thrills, chills, murder and power struggles permeate Macbeth, the story of two alpha types who destroy everything around them in order to realise their ambitions. Verdi was deeply absorbed by Shakespeare throughout his life, and … Continue reading

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