Browsing all posts in February, 2010.
The Dallas Opera announces 2010-2011 season
by Christie Connolley The Dallas Opera announced the company’s 2010 – 2011 season for performances in the Winspear Opera House. From their website: http://www.dallasopera.org/the_season/1011-index.php#3 DON GIOVANNI by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart October 22, 24(m), 27, 30, November 5, 7(m) 2010 Mozart’s masterpiece will sweep you off your feet with its unparalleled combination of comedy, drama, glorious [...]
Viva Verdi, ‘Rigoletto!’
by Erica Papillion-Posey George Hall of The Guardian gives of a sneek peek of the London Royal Opera House’s new production of Verdi’s Rigoletto: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/feb/13/review-rigoletto-royal-opera-house
Domingo to have surgery
by Christie Connolley Domingo suffered abdominal pain during a performance in Tokyo and will now undergo preventative surgery which will take him out of commission for up to six weeks. Read about it: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/arts/music/23domingo.html
Essential Grace Bumbry – Part Two
by Christie Connolley In honor of Black History Month, Operagasm presents part two of ‘An Interview with Grace Bumbry’. Divariffic!
In The Clear
by Paul Oakley Stovall Greetings all. My name is Paul Oakley Stovall and I’m an American playwright. My newest project is a musical entitled CLEAR. It has received a developmental reading at Joe’s Pub in NYC and I continue to work on it and expand it with the help of Broadway producers Ruth and Steve [...]
Dior – The Musical!
by Christie Connolley Malcolm McLaren chats about the possibility of of a musical about Dior. In one word – fabulous! Read on! http://www.papermag.com/blogs/2010/02/when_you_were_working_on.php
Met Announces 2010-2011 Season!
Seven New Productions, Including Two Met Premieres, Headline the Met’s 2010-11 Season, Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of James Levine’s Company Debut New production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen by Robert Lepage, conducted by Levine, begins with Das Rheingold and Die Walküre John Adams’s Nixon in China, directed by Peter Sellars, and Rossini’s Le Comte [...]
The Ring Festival Hits L.A., The Wagner Question Continues….
The ever controversial and always jarring Richard Wagner strikes again. Read this insightful review by Reed Johnson of the L.A. Times on the ever recurring Wagner question…. Some of the questions posed of course: What relationship did Wagner’s social and political ideas, particularly his grotesque anti-Jewish ones, have on his artistry, and how have they affected Germany and, possibly, [...]
New York City Opera Champions American Opera with 11th Season of VOX Contemporary American Opera Lab
Free Annual Showcase of New American Operas Returns to Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at New York University on April 30 & May 1, 2010 Record Number of Submissions Received for VOX 2010 Operas to Include Bang on a Can Co-Founder Michael Gordon’s Acquanetta (New York, NY, February 18, 2010) – Affirming the role [...]
Essential Grace Bumbry, Part One
by Christie Connolley In honor of Black History Month, Operagasm presents part one of ‘An Interview with Grace Bumbry’. Divariffic!
