Browsing all posts in December, 2011.
You’re Welcome!
by Christie Connolley In closing out Operagasm’s celebration of the best of 2011, I present the 2011 Operagasm Award recipient for hottest male opera singer! Mmm, hmmm……. You’re Welcome!
Audition Listings Update: December 30
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. [...]
Competition Listings Update: December 30
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. [...]
Musical Term of the Week
Bringing you the best of 2011! by Melissa Wimbish Operagasm has gone retro this month! The more we explore opera’s roots, the more I understand why we’re all so crazy. Commedia dell’arte – A dramatic genre of unknown origin that evolved in sixteenth-century Italy and had a profound influence on the development of opera. It [...]
Madison Opera Presents a New Production of Galileo Galilei
Madison, Wis. – Madison Opera continues its Season of Dreamers with a new production of Philip Glass’s Galileo Galilei. This highly theatrical work will have four performances in the 350-seat Playhouse at Overture Center for the Arts from January 26 through 29, 2012. Among Glass’s most acclaimed recent works, Galileo Galilei offers a moving portrait [...]
Soprano vs. Soprano
Bringing you the best of 2011 with this article featured during Operagasm’s focus on women! by Caitlin Vincent In September 2008, I created an operatic alter-ego named Lily Puns and began writing comedy pieces from her skewed perspective. Narcissistic, neurotic, and completely shameless, Lily was a way for me to highlight real issues facing singers [...]
Radvanovsky and Hvorostovsky Represent!
Bringing you the best recording reviews of 2011! Review: Verdi Opera Scenes, Sondra Radvanovsky and Dmitri Hvorostovsky; Philharmonia of Russia; Constantine Orbelian, conductor by Wade Davis We all know how gorgeous Dmitri Hvovorstovsky is, vocally and physically (have you seen him as Onegin with Renee Fleming as Tatiana??), so there really is no need to elaborate [...]
Final Days to Support Local Opera Companies
by Christie Connolley 2011 is coming to a close! Finished, finito, fertig… bye-bye! This means you have a few precious days to make a last minute donation to your local opera company, most likely a tax-deductible donation. For small companies, ticket sales only cover a small fraction of the costs involved in producing quality operas [...]
Boys vs. Girls: Who Has it Easier in this Business?
by Andrew Sauvageau I’m not going to lie to you and say that men have shorter careers, more competition, a harder time filling production team openings, et cetera , et cetera. It’s just not true. We frequently get to sing longer and more often, and the ratio of men to women acting as directors, administrators, [...]
Word of the Week
Bringing you the best of 2011! by Melissa Wimbish “Das it!!!!” Okay, that’s more than one word, but Maurica Rodriguez does what she wants and I’m just fine with that. I probably shouldn’t post a clip of this genius in action because it might offend someone, but if you have a liberal sense of humor, [...]
