Posts Tagged ‘donizetti’
Tuesday, April 29th, 2014
By Rebecca Schmid A new production of Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore at the Deutsche Oper turned out to be a very Anglophone evening. Staged by Irina Brook (daughter of the legendary director Peter Brook), the opera starred young American singers Heidi Stober and Dimitri Pittas. And for the first time, the company introduced English subtitles alongside […]
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Tags: Alexandra Hutton, Deutsche Oper, Dimitri Pittas, donizetti, Heidi Stober, Irina Brook, L'Elisir d'amore, Martin Buczkó, MusicalAmerica.com, Nicola Alaimo, Noëlle Ginefri, Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, Simon Pauly, Thomas Richter
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Monday, January 7th, 2013
By James Jorden One thing you can’t call David McVicar is inept. His productions always work with precision, every movement landing everyone in the right place at the right time, every “still” moment photo-ready. Reportedly he brings shows in on budget and on time, and there’s never a last-minute scramble to improvise some kind of […]
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Tags: act of god, audience members, bel canto, Black and Blue, david mcvicar, donizetti, Joyce DiDonato, the met, wigs
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Sunday, September 30th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid Many American opera-goers, including New Yorkers, look across the ocean and wish that their home institutions would afford themselves the same liberties of programming. Back in Berlin, the Deutsche Oper kicked off its season with a Lachenmann opera, Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern, while the Komische Oper launched a Monteverdi trilogy including […]
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Tags: Ambroglio Maestri, anna netrebko, Anne-Catherine Bird, barrie kosky, Bartlett Sher, Berlin, Catherine Zuber, Deutsche Oper, donizetti, Efterklang, Johnny Greenwood, Karsten Fundal, komische oper, Lachenmann, L’Elisir d’Amore, Mariusz Kwiecien, Matthew Polenzani, Maurizio Benini, Met Museum, metropolitan opera, Michael Yeargan, Missy Mazzoli, MONO, NPR, Rebecca Schmid, Worldless Music Orchestra
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Saturday, October 8th, 2011
By James Jorden The Metropolitan Opera debut of Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, an amazing 180 years into the work’s history, won mostly respectful reviews last week—in between snipes at Anna Netrebko’s momentary breaking of character during the “Tower Scene.” A common thread in both published and popular opinion, though, was that the piece itself was not […]
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Tags: anna netrebko, atys, black and white, Black Swan, carnegie hall, david mcvicar, donizetti, franco zeffirelli, glamour, john dexter, josef svoboda, joseph volpe, la traviata, lincoln center, live performance, metropolitan opera, new york observer, period costume, regie, repertoire
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