Notre Dame by Franz Schmidt St.Gallen Opera Festival July 9, 2021 Esmeralda: Anna Gabler; The Archidiaconus Simon Neal; Quasimodo: David Steffens; Phoebus: Clay Hilley; Gringoire: Cameron Becker; Officer: Shea Owens; Chorus…
First ever performance in Frankfurt DIALOGUES DES CARMÉLITES Opera in three acts by Francis Poulenc. Arrangement for chamber orchestra made by Takeshi Moriuchi. Sung in French with German and English surtitles. Premiere…
Opera by Giacomo Puccini on a libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. Created at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on January 14, 1900. Attended performance at the Monnaie Theatre in Brussels…
Die ersten Menschen is an opera in two acts by Rudi Stephan. As the libretto, he chose Otto Borngräber's play of the same name, which the latter had described as an "erotic…
Coming soon: CORINNE'S COLUMN Opera Gazet has grown steadily in recent months. We now have correspondents and readers on three continents and are a welcome guest and/or reviewer in the major opera…
MACBETH IN MELBOURNE The young Verdi was not an innovator. At the very beginning of his career, he seemed quite content to pick up the form as he had found it, happy…
Milanov, Mödl & Obraztsova Each generation of young opera singers eventually becomes familiar with some of the great opera singers of the past. We’ve seen this happen, first hand, at least a…
PHILIP GLASS AND AMERICAN REPETITIVE MUSIC September 28, 1976. The Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels. On the program: Einstein on the Beach. It is our first introduction to Philip Glass. The…
Adapted from Rossini's "Otello" Normally this scene from Rossini's 1816 opera Otello is about Otello and Rodrigo arguing over the love of Desdemona, but in this scene, the two man are seated…
Australia. Its Curious Relationship with Regietheater. Melbourne Opera's director Suzanne Chaundy: “The Melbourne Opera has a very established and very opera literate audience base. We also have an audience of people who’ve…