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Operagasm Exclusive: Dieskau’s Stab at Giovanni
This historical DVD recording review of Don Giovanni is made possible through the generosity of Naxos, the world’s leading classical music group. Thanks for giving our readers the opportunity to explore your catalog and share the deets with the Operagasm community! by Blair Skinner Deutsche Oper Berlin DVD Recording of Don Giovanni – September 24, 1961 [...]
How enchanting is Met’s Enchanted Island?
by Christie Connolley A new year brings a new operatic endeavor for the Metropolitan Opera! Check out the Operagasm Review Rundown on the review by David Patrick Stearns on Philly.com. Enchanted Island aka Baroque’s Greatest Hits: The Metropolitan Opera spent so much time and money assembling an operatic adaptation of The Tempest, you wonder why [...]
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 [...]
Review: Carlos Kleiber, I Am Lost to the World
Bringing you the best of 2011! This review was made possible by NAXOS, the world’s leading classical music group. Peruse their catalog for this recording and thousands of other gems! by Blair Skinner George Wümbolt leaves much to be desired in the way of actually explaining the enigmatic existence of Carlos Kleiber. A film that [...]
A Review of Peter Lieberson’s Neruda Songs
One of our favorite Operagasm Exclusive reviews of 2011! Review: Peter Lieberson, Neruda Songs by Megan Ihnen I have had a love affair with Peter Lieberson’s Neruda Songs for as long as I have known of them. Who among us music devotees has not savored the story of the composer, Peter Lieberson (1946-2011), setting the [...]
Review: Carlos Kleiber, Traces to Nowhere
Bringing you the best of 2011! This review was made possible by NAXOS, the world’s leading classical music group. Peruse their catalog for this recording and thousands of other gems! by Lee Mills At long last there is a biographical account of Carlos Kleiber that does not try to paint him as an immortal god! (Carlos [...]
Renee’s Ravishing Rodelinda?
by Christie Connolley Do you love Handel’s operas? Then you may love the Met’s production of Rodelinda. Aron Lamm with the Epoch Times has all the highlights (and lowlights) of the performance. Check out the Operagasm Review Rundown! Move over diva: “The cast is impressive: Renée Fleming as Rodelinda is, of course, by far the [...]
Operagasm Exclusive: Will This Guru Last?
Bringing you the best of 2011! by Danielle Buonaiuto Written over the span of three years (2006-2009) to a libretto by Xavier Manuel, Guru is, as French composer Laurent Petitgirard calls it, an “activist opera”, and deals with the serious and topical issues of manipulation of the masses and the politics of cult followings. The [...]
Operagasm Exclusive Review: Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Magic Flute
by Curtis Bannister Most singers – whether they are in or out of academic training- will either sing in or watch a performance of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. The opera provides roles for every voice part, is a standard in the operatic repertoire and contains some of the most well know melodies in all of [...]
Operagasm Exclusive: Fu*k you. Fu*k you back…or…Anna Nicole, the Opera
Giving you the best of 2011! Remember this fab review from the fab Mr. Davis? by Wade Davis With a bluesy 12th chord and the words “Anna, Anna, Anna Nicole,” began the series Anna Nicole Smith Show on E!; thus begins our opera on the same subject. By a chorus dressed as Southern news casters, we [...]
