Verdi

Conducting For The Pope

AP | Posted 05.07.2012

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VATICAN CITY — Riccardo Muti will be conducting a concert in the Vatican in honor of Pope Benedict XVI. He's the second big-name maestro to be ...

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How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?

David Browning | Posted 04.25.2012

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This was the Carnegie Hall debut for soprano Jennifer Rowley and tenor Noah Baetge, likely for mezzo Leann Sandel-Pantaleo and bass Harold Wilson as well. The fact that all four had issues in keeping with the conductor would seem to indict the conductor rather than any of them.

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The Uncut Version Of 'Don Carlos'

AP | MIKE SILVERMAN | Posted 04.23.2012

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HOUSTON -- One of the grandest of grand operas, Verdi's "Don Carlos" is rarely performed with every note of music the composer wrote for its 1867 prem...

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How Soprano Angela Meade Lost And Won The National Council Auditions

AP | MIKE SILVERMAN | Posted 04.22.2012

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NEW YORK — The story of soprano Angela Meade's "overnight success" at the Metropolitan Opera is well known: She wins the National Council Auditi...

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Aida Redeemed! Here's Why...

AP | MIKE SILVERMAN | Posted 04.11.2012

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NEW YORK — In 1872, a dissatisfied opera-goer who had attended a performance of Verdi's "Aida" in Parma, Italy, wrote to the composer asking for...

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Verdi's First Opera Gets A Rare Showing

AP | MIKE SILVERMAN | Posted 03.30.2012

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WILMINGTON, Del. — The year was 1839, and a young, unknown Italian composer was having his first opera produced at La Scala. Though only a mode...

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The Art of Criticism in the Technological Age -- Pros and Cons of Our Times

Melody Breyer-Grell | Posted 12.27.2011

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Why is arts criticism important? In a perfect situation, criticism would serve at least three-fold. Worthy artists would receive recognition, audience...

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WATCH: Puppy Confused, Possibly Moved By Opera

Posted 12.12.2011

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Remember in "Pretty Woman" when Richard Gere takes Julia Roberts to the opera for the first time and he says that people either love it or hate it? We...

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Two Operas You'll Never See Performed at the Met!

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Strauss, Faust, Puccini, Madama Butterfly, Rigoletto, Manon, Verdi, Ray of Light Theatre, Where's Dick?, Othello, Houston Grand Opera, La Traviata, Salome, Mozart, Child Abuse, Gounod, Don Giovanni, Santa Claus, Nixon in China, Jerry Springer, Arts News

Whether deploying a chorus line of Ku Klux Klansmen, mocking every symbol of Christianity, or filling the theatre with nonstop profanity, Jerry Springer:The Opera has something to offend everyone.

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Culture Zohn Off the C(H)uff With Herzog & de Meuron

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

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The architectural team that prides itself on creating unexpected public spaces attractive to all layers of society turns to Verdi.

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Interview With David McVicar: "I Am Good at What I Do Because I Care So Much"

Christina Patterson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Opera's leading director is frequently described as a genius, but rarely escapes the label of "enfant terrible" and "angry young man."

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The Lords of The Fly

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

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The production contained some pre-requisites for the medium -- a tragic storyline that centered around love, sex and three principles, making it a theoretical candidate for an operatic treatment.

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