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  • Classical Interviews – Christina DeMarea

    Oct 30th, 2020 | By WTJU
    Tags: charlottesville opera, Christina DeMarea, Classical music, interview, Opera

    Christina DeMarea is the General Director for Charlottesville Opera. She spoke with WTJU about the history of Charlottesville Opera, how COVID has impacted the organization, and how they select which works they’ll perform. These interviews air as part of WTJU’s Classical Sunrise, weekday mornings from 7-9am. For more on Charlottesville Opera, visit: CharlottesvilleOpera.org History of […]

  • Classical Interviews – Miriam Gordon-Stewart

    Jul 31st, 2020 | By WTJU
    Tags: Classical music, interview, Miriam Gordon-Stewart, Opera

    Miriam Gordon-Stewart is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director for Victory Hall Opera. In our interview she talks about VHO’s mission, its exploration of deaf opera as well as her childhood, and her career. For more on Miriam Gordon-Stewart, visit: VictoryHallOpera.org or MiriamGordon.com These interviews aired as part of Classical Sunrise, weekday mornings from 7-9am. Deaf […]

  • Second volume of Auber opera overtures distinct improvement

    Jul 8th, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, Classical music, Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, Daniel-François-Esprit Auber, Dario Salvi, Markéta Cepická, Opera, Orchestral music, Romantic period

    Volume two of Daniel-François-Esprit Auber overtures builds on the strengths of the first. As before, maestro Dario Salvi and the Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice present several world premiere recordings — including a violin concerto. While I enjoyed the performances of the ensemble in volume one, I had some complaints about the quality of the […]

  • Opera and the Arts in the Age of Novel Coronavirus

    May 26th, 2020 | By Tim Snider
    Tags: Classical music, Coronavirus, Opera

    The world is suffering through a terrible pandemic, the most catastrophic in a century. Apart from the impact the virus has had on public health, the effect on the arts, particularly the performing arts, has been devastating. Museums and performing venues have closed, performances have been canceled, and the very survival of arts organizations has […]

  • Boffo performances of Wolf-Ferrari “Il segreto di Susanna”

    May 28th, 2019 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Àngel Òdena, CD Review, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Friedrich Haider, Judith Howarth, Naxos, Opera, Oviedo Filarmonía

    Spoiler alert: “Il segreto di Susanna” è che fuma sigarette.* Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari perfectly captured the spirit of opera buffa with “The Secret of Susanna.” As the genre dictates, the cast consists of only three roles (one non-singing). The action is quick, farcical, the story concise. Wolf-Ferrari’s work follows the consequences of Suzanna hiding a secret […]

  • Letter from Salzburg 4: Ariodante

    Sep 22nd, 2017 | By Tim Snider
    Tags: Cecilia Bartoli, Christophe Dumaux, Nathan Berg, Opera, Rolando Villazón, Salzburg Festival

    How can a baroque opera from 1734 be squared with 21st Century sensibilities? That was the challenge for director Christof Loy in staging Handel’s Ariodante. Fortunately, he had available the formidable resources of the Salzburg Festival and the estimable mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli, who not only remains one of the world’s great singers but also now […]

  • Letter from Salzburg 3: Wozzeck

    Sep 15th, 2017 | By Tim Snider
    Tags: Alban Berg, Asmik Grigorian, Matthias Goerne, Opera, Salzburg Festival

    One the most eagerly awaited productions of the 2017 Salzburg Festival season was Alban Berg’s Wozzeck, staged by the South African artist and stage director William Kentridge.  Coincident with this new production was an exhibit of his work at the Museum der Moderne, Thick Time: Installations and Stagings, featuring eight large-scale multimedia installations, one of which was […]

  • Letter From Salzburg 2: Lady MacBeth of Mtsensk

    Sep 1st, 2017 | By Tim Snider
    Tags: Dimtri Shostakovich, Evgenia Muraveva, Opera, Salzburg Festival

    Intendant Markus Hinterhäuser in his second season at the artistic helm of the Salzburg Festival is refining the focus of the Festival that had become somewhat diffuse in recent seasons. In addition to the operas of Mozart (indispensable in a music festival in the city of his birth) and star vehicles such as Aïda, both […]

  • Letter From Salzburg 1: I Due Foscari

    Aug 25th, 2017 | By Tim Snider
    Tags: Giuseppi Verdi, Joseph Calleja, Opera, Placido Domingo, Salzburg Festival

    Almost exactly 100 years ago the Salzburg Festival, located in the picturesque Austrian city of that name, was founded by stage director Max Reinhardt and playwright (and librettist for Richard Strauss) Hugo von Hoffmanstahl.  During the summer the Festival attracts music lovers from around the world to hear opera of surpassing quality, plus the finest […]

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