English Touring Opera are delighted to announce a season of lyric monodramas to tour nationally from October to December. The season features music for solo singer and piano by Argento, Britten, Tippett and Shostakovich with a bold and inventive approach to making opera during social distancing.
Conductor Oliver Zeffman has commissioned the very first opera for a socially distanced world, which is now available to watch exclusively on Apple Music. Eight Songs From Isolation has been written by eight leading composers, specifically for streaming - rather than live performance - and is the first opera written for a time when the performers were unable to meet in person.
Leading freelance musicians unite in Parliament Square to call for targeted support for colleagues in the arts and entertainment sector.
Duo Lewis Murphy (composer) and Laura Attridge (writer) have launched a charitable song project entitled Notes From Isolation. The resulting songs, featuring some of the UK's top singing talent, are being released online between August and October 2020 and can be enjoyed free of charge.
The Royal Opera House is thrilled to announce an exciting, wide-ranging new line-up for its autumn programme. For the first time, extraordinary performances will be accessible online for a global audience through livestreams and for socially distanced live audiences at our home in Covent Garden. In a global first, we present a new opera in hyper-reality, alongside repertory favourites from both artistic companies.
Some of the most famous and outstanding stars from the opera world are to take part in a very special evening from Wexford Festival Opera, including Aigul Akhmetshina, Joseph Calleja, Daniela Barcellona, Juan Diego Flórez, Igor Golovatenko, Ermonela Jaho, Sergey Romanovsky, and many more.
Following its successful launch in 2019, OperaStreaming streams nine operas on YouTube from the historic opera houses of Emilia-Romagna during the 2020-21 season, with fully-staged productions of Verdi's La traviata in October from Modena and Verdi'sOtello from Bologna in...
‘A brief history of song’ is the subtitle of the 2020 Oxford Lieder Festival (10th-17th October), which will present an ambitious, diverse and imaginative programme of 40 performances and events.
Bampton Classical Opera returns to the Baroque splendour of London’s St John’s Smith Square on November 6 with a concert performance of Gluck’s one-act opera The Crown, the first in the UK since 1987. The performance will also be filmed and available to watch on demand on the Bampton website from 9 November.
While many of us spent lockdown at home taking it a little easier, composer Andrew Synnott wrote an opera.
Owen Wingrave is part of the new Interim Season of 19 brand new events, all free to view online between September and December 2020.
The Arts Council has awarded innovative UK charity Music and Theatre For All (MTFA) a major new grant to develop three ambitious new projects in the wake of Covid 19.
English National Opera (ENO) will reopen the London Coliseum to socially distanced audiences on 6 and 7 November for special performances of Mozart’s Requiem. These will provide audiences with an opportunity to reflect upon and to commemorate the difficulties the nation has faced during the pandemic.
The Royal Opera House is proud to continue its curated #OurHouseToYourHouse programme into the autumn, bringing audiences the best of the ROH through a new series of Friday Premieres and cultural highlights.
After six months of closure, the Royal Opera House is thrilled to be opening its doors to the public as part of Open House London weekend, giving visitors a taste of one of the world’s most famous theatres for free.
The Academy of St Martin in the Fields is thrilled to announce re:connect - an eight concert series with live socially distanced audiences at its namesake church, St. Martin-in-the-Fields. The autumn concerts will take place at 5pm & 7:30pm on two Saturdays per month with guest artists including baritone Roderick Williams, soprano Carolyn Sampson and composer-conductor-pianist Ryan Wigglesworth performing a wide range of repertoire.
Music and poetry unite and collide across centuries, from the Medieval to the Enlightenment to the present day. This year, the Oxford Lieder Festival will present a thrilling and innovative programme comprising more than forty events streamed over eight days.
The English Concert with artistic director Harry Bicket is delighted to announce a series of concerts from 1-15 October 2020. The concerts take place in historic London venues with star soloists and will be performed and streamed live to a paying audience at 7pm GMT on each performance date. The programmes include first-class vocal and instrumental works from the two pillars of the English Baroque, covering different aspects of the repertoire.
Glyndebourne has announced plans for a ‘staycation’ series of socially-distanced indoor performances, starting on 10 October 2020.
The Royal Opera House is delighted to announce two packed evenings of opera and ballet, live from our stage in Covent Garden and available to view wherever you are in the world online.
E' morta Renata Tebaldi Era la "rivale" di Maria Callas SAN MARINO - Renata Tebaldi è morta alle 03.30 nella sua casa di San Marino. La grande cantante lirica, nata a Pesaro, avrebbe compiuto 83 anni nel febbraio prossimo. La...
E' morta Renata Tebaldi
Era la "rivale" di Maria Callas
SAN MARINO - Renata Tebaldi è morta alle 03.30 nella sua casa di San Marino. La grande cantante lirica, nata a Pesaro, avrebbe compiuto 83 anni nel febbraio prossimo. La notizia del decesso è stata data da Niksa Simetovic, il suo medico di fiducia di origine croata ma da 30 anni residente nella piccola repubblica.
Renata Tebaldi, malata da tempo, da un anno e mezzo si era stabilmente trasferita a San Marino dove da circa 20 anni trascorreva periodi di vacanza e dove fino all'ultimo è stata assistita dagli amici. Nell'ultimo mese le sue condizioni si erano aggravate.
Al suo fianco nell'ultima notte anche la signora Tina, assistente della cantante per molti anni. "E' morta tante volte sui palcoscenici di tutto il mondo, ma questa volta è morta davvero", ha detto Tina.
Anche se si era ritirata nel '76, dopo 32 anni di carriera, Renata Tebaldi è sempre stata idolatrata dagli appassionati della lirica. "Ho sempre considerato la mia voce come un regalo della natura. Fu per amore e rispetto di quel dono prodigioso che decisi di smettere - ha detto due anni fa in un'intervista, rilasciata nell'occasione del suo ottantesimo compleanno - Per non vivere la mortificante stagione del declino".
Tutti i teatri del mondo, e in particolare quelli dei quali era stata regina, dalla Scala al Metropolitan, hanno continuato fino all'ultimo a tributarle omaggi, riconoscimenti. Le case discografiche ripropongono anche adesso con successo inalterato le sue Butterfly, Tosca, Bohème, Norma.
Renata Tebaldi era nata a Pesaro nel 1922. Nel 1946 fu scelta da Arturo Toscanini, che la definì 'voce d'angelo', per partecipare al concerto di riapertura postbellica della Scala, avvenimento che la lancio in campo internazionale. Seguirono il Festival di Edinburgo, il Covent Garden, San Francisco, Parigi.
Ha cantato con oltre 70 direttori d'orchestra. Tra i piu famosi autentici giganti della musica come De Sabata, Giulini, Toscanini, Karajan.
Storica la rivalità con Maria Callas, della quale comunque la Tebaldi non ha mai voluto parlare volentieri: "Mi offendo se qualcuno pensa che abbia cercato un confronto con lei", spiego una volta. E ancora: "La faccenda della Callas era molto montata e, in fondo, rappresento un'enorme pubblicità non pagata".
Ma fu forse anche per sfuggire a questo dualismo, accentuato dai giornali e dai fan, che decise di trasferirsi negli Stati Uniti. "Andai a New York - ha raccontato - e divenni in poco tempo la regina del Metropolitan, interpretando, tra l'altro, 'Otello', 'Gioconda' e 'La Fanciulla del West'".
Negli ultimi mesi era molto malata. Ma nelle ultime interviste, rilasciate in occasione degli 80 anni, ripeteva con orgoglio: "Mi telefonano, numerosissimi, anche i giovani: gente che non mi ha mai visto in scena, e mi conosce solo dai dischi. C'è chi mi ha detto: dalla sua voce capisco che bella persona è lei. Parole che scaldano il cuore".
Italian Opera Diva Renata Tebaldi Dies at 82
Sun Dec 19, 2004 08:17 AM ET
By Rachel Sanderson
ROME (Reuters) - Italian soprano Renata Tebaldi, one of the great post-World War II opera divas who Arturo Toscanini said had the "voice of an angel," has died, a family friend said Sunday. She was 82.
She died in the Republic of San Marino where she had moved several months ago to be close to the sea, said the family friend, who asked not to be named.
Tebaldi had one of the most beautiful Italian voices of the century. Although her rivalry with Maria Callas attracted much attention, it was her singing that captivated her fans.
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