http://www.operatoday.com/ en-us 2013-05-21T12:39:44-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2013/05/gareth_john_wig.php Baritone Gareth John is rapidly accumulating a war-chest of honours. Winner of the 2013 Kathleen Ferrier Award, he recently won the Royal Academy of Music Patrons’ Award and was presented the Silver Medal by the Worshipful Company of Musicians. Performances Gary 2013-05-21T12:39:44-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2013/05/la_boheme_at_en.php La bohème was the first time I had caught the production. ]]> Performances Gary 2013-05-21T11:15:00-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2013/05/rolando_villazo.php It’s Verdi’s bicentenary year and Rolando Villazón has two new CDs to plug — titled somewhat confusingly, ‘Villazón: Verdi’ and ‘Villazón’s Verdi’, the latter a ‘personal selection’ of favourite numbers performed by stars of the past and present. Performances Gary 2013-05-21T09:30:23-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2013/05/brahms_third_in.php Nicola Luisotti and the San Francisco Opera Orchestra climbed out of the War Memorial pit, braved the wind whipped bay and held spellbound an audience at Cal Performances’ Zellerbach Auditorium at UC Berkeley. Performances michael_m 2013-05-20T20:33:00-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2013/05/ariane_et_barbe.php Ariane et Barbe-Bleue, first heard in 1907, once seemed important. Arturo Toscanini conducted the Met premiere in 1911 with Farrar and later arranged some of its music for a 1947 recording with his NBC Symphony. ]]> Recordings Gary 2013-05-20T13:48:15-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2013/05/glyndebourne_ar.php Ariadne auf Naxos started the Glyndebourne 2013 season with an explosion. Strauss could hardly have made his intentions more clear. Ariadne auf Naxos is not “about” Greek myth so much as a satire on art and the way art is made.]]> Performances anne_o 2013-05-19T17:32:16-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2013/05/paris_opera_awa.php http://www.paris-opera-awards.fr/parisoperraawards-9480.html News Gary 2013-05-17T11:05:27-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2013/05/post_1.php La donna del Lago at the Royal Opera House boasts a superstar cast. Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Flórez are perhaps the best in these roles in the business at this time. Yet the conductor Michele Mariotti is also hot news. ]]> Interviews anne_o 2013-05-17T06:09:52-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2013/05/lohengrin_bayre.php Opera in three acts. Words and music by Richard Wagner. Repertoire Gary 2013-05-16T13:13:03-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2013/05/wagner_200_year.php The current theme celebrates Richard Wagner's birth 200 years ago. Over the course of the next several weeks, recordings of each of works will be presented, including recordings of live performances when available. Parsifal, Bayreuth 2012 Live Lohengrin, Bayreuth 2011... Theme Gary 2013-05-16T11:47:01-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2013/05/parsifal_bayreu.php Repertoire Gary 2013-05-16T11:01:09-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2013/05/wozzeck_at_eno.php “Man is an abyss. It makes one dizzy to look into it.” So utters Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck, repeating what was also a recurring motif in the playwright’s own letters. Performances Gary 2013-05-14T09:03:53-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2013/05/mulhouse_rare_b.php Owen Wingrave.]]> Performances james_s 2013-05-11T22:23:00-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2013/05/frankfurts_intr.php Once upon a time, Frankfurt Opera had the baddest ass reputation in Germany as “the” cutting edge producer of must-see opera. Performances james_s 2013-05-11T22:13:00-06:00 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2013/05/rigoletto_at_ly.php Rigoletto can serve as a vehicle for individual singers to make a strong impression and become afterward associated with specific roles in the opera. ]]> Performances jim_z 2013-05-11T09:41:00-06:00