Category Archives: OPera

Donizetti’s Mary Stuart at the Seattle Opera

By Gaetano Donizetti HISTORIC CONFRONTATION WITH SEARING EMOTIONS. Two icons of English royalty, Queen Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots, clash in a powerful story of jealousy, pity, doubt, menace, exaltation, and remorse. Extravagant period costumes and virtuosic bel … Continue reading

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The Magic Flute in Finnish at the Kansallisooppera in Helsinki

The Magic Flute W. A. Mozart This is a performance like none you have ever seen, opera or theatre. In this celebrated production created at the Komische Opera in Berlin, The Magic Flute is recast as a fantastic tale from … Continue reading

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Premiere of Le Nozze di Figaro in Zagreb

The premiere of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro is scheduled for Saturday, February 6, 2016. The conductor is Natalie Murray Beale, stage director Mauricio García Lozano, the set designer is Jorge Ballina, the costume designer is Eloise Kazan, … Continue reading

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Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti at the Bolshoi

Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte Premiered on May 24, 2014 Presented with one interval. Running time: 3 hours 40 minutes 3 February 2016 4 February 2016 5 February 2016 6 February 2016 7 February 2016   The score has been made available by Neue Mozart-Ausgabe, Bärenreiter-Verlag … Continue reading

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Fidelio in Munich

Opera in two acts Composer Ludwig van Beethoven · Libretto by Joseph Sonnleithner after the amendments by Georg Friedrich Treitschke after Jean-Nicolas Bouilly’s libretto “Léonore, ou L’Amour conjugal” In German with German surtitles Sunday, 07. February 2016 06:00 pm – … Continue reading

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La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina, practically unknown opera, performed at the Salon d’Hercule in the Chateau de Versailles

Francesca Caccini (1587-1640) La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall’Isola d’Alcina Balletto con prologo e tre scene, Florence, 1625 Florence, beginning of February 1625. The Medici court is preparing grandiose celebrations to celebrate the official visit of the heir to the throne … Continue reading

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Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Opera Bastille in Paris

Opéra Bastille from 02 February to 04 March 2016 Opening night Tue. 2 Feb. Il Barbiere di Siviglia Opera Buffa in two acts (1816) Music Gioacchino Rossini Libretto Cesare Sterbini After Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais In Italian Conductor Giacomo Sagripanti … Continue reading

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Il Trovatore in Luxembourg

IL TROVATORE Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) Opera in four acts.   Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano and Leone Emanuele Bardare based on the drama in Spanish “El Trovador” (1836) by Antonio García Gutiérrez. Premiered at the Teatro Apollo in Rome on 19 January 1853. In Italian with … Continue reading

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The Barber of Seville on tour in Wales and England

Saturday, February 13, 2016 – Friday, April 8, 2016 New Production Spring 2016 Cities The Bristol Hippodrome 15 Mar – 18 Mar Milton Keynes Theatre 29 Mar – 1 Apr Venue Cymru, Llandudno 8 Mar – 11 Mar Birmingham Hippodrome … Continue reading

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Norma at the Florida Grand Opera

by VINCENZO BELLINI “If I were shipwrecked, I would leave all of my other operas and try to save Norma.” —Vincenzo Bellini A clandestine love affair brings two extreme enemies together during a time of war. But when Norma discovers … Continue reading

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