by Christie Connolley Are you tired of paying fees to access audition notices? So are we! Every Friday morning, Operagasm presents a fresh update of audition listings. We would be happy to include your audition notice in a full story during the week and/or in the Friday listing, please submit your notice by emailing auditions@operagasm.com. [...]
by Christie Connolley Are you tired of paying fees to access competition notices? So are we! Every Friday morning, Operagasm presents a fresh update of competition listings. We would be happy to include your competition notice in a full story during the week and/or in the Friday listing, please submit your notice by emailing competitions@operagasm.com. [...]
by Melissa Wimbish This week’s musical joke…is it really true? Trumpet players — be nice! Question: How do trumpet players traditionally greet each other? Answer: “Hi. I’m better than you.” If you have a musical joke that you would like to share, please email your submission to melissa@operagasm.com! Now!
by Melissa Wimbish This musical term just looks like an alternative word for dramma giocoso..but it sounds kind of smarter. opera semiseria – A type of Italian opera falling into neither of the classical genres of tragedy or comedy. Derived from the 18th-century French comedie larmoyante, it used serious subject matter, treated with strong melodramitc [...]
Houston Grand Opera, with Music Director Patrick Summers and Managing Director Perryn Leech, announces its 2012-13 season, headlined by four new productions. The first of these is Puccini’s La bohème, which launches the new season with a new staging by award-winning British director John Caird. To honor 2013’s joint bicentennials of Wagner and Verdi, the [...]
by Christie Connolley Doperaganger (dŏp’ər-ə-găng’ər) – Another person that is eerily similar to your favorite opera star, but isn’t them. This month courtesy of a dear Operagasm reader, featuring soprano Deborah Voigt and actress Drew Barrymore. The similarity is uncanny. Got an idea for a doperaganger? Let us know at christie@operagasm.com.
by Melissa Wimbish The conversation never really stops about Don Giovanni. David Ladds reports on the Royal Opera House’s current offering of Mozart’s greatest opera hit. Check out the Operagasm review rundown! Give it up for the ladies in the house!: ”The female leads, Hilba Gerzmava’s Donna Anna in particular, were all worthy of their considerable [...]
by Christie Connolley Last week we told you about how Alan Gilbert of the New York Philharmonic got all badass and stopped the performance of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony due to the incessant ringing of a patron’s cell phone. This week we have Slovakian violist Lukas Kmit who was not about to let the nuisance of [...]
(Associated Press) – Ruthlide Boesch, whose more than three-decade singing career took her to the world’s top opera stages, has died. She was 94. Boesch’s death was announced Tuesday by the Vienna State Opera. A statement said she died Friday. Born Jan. 9, 1918, Boesch debuted in 1945 as Susanna in Mozart’s “Le Nozze di [...]
by Cynthia Vaughn The Apple iPad is a portable and practical resource for the voice studio. Here are some apps I’ve found useful (or not!) Most apps, once downloaded via wifi, don’t need internet connection in the studio. Apps range in cost from free to a few dollars. Some of the higher end recording and [...]
by Melissa Wimbish THIS IS IT! Michael Jackson was brilliant. The end. Upgrade your outlook on the art of performance by watching a phenomenal documentary/rockumentary that follows the superstar and his supporting performance team during the making of a masterpiece-mega-almost show: This Is It. The first time I heard of the film, I remember a colleague [...]
