Sarasota Opera will open Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro this month. There will be seven performances of the ...
The two concerts will feature some of opera's most iconic showstoppers, including famous arias and ensembles from Puccini's beloved Tosca and Verdi's masterpieces Aida and Rigoletto. Guest ...
WPI professor Lucy Caplan explores how Black artists helped transform opera in new book "Dreaming in Ensemble." ...
Indeed, it was announced that "one of the ambitions of Mr. Fontana’s life is to hear the opera ‘Aida’ sung in the ... of women performing their arias," Caplan said in a recent interview.
The first part was a whirlwind about how a new production of “Aida” came together at the Metropolitan ... when he triumphed over an Act 2 aria that was clearly right at his limits. The future of opera ...
Nilsson may be the most demure Aida ever to grace the Met stage. Her simple sheath instantly marks her as an outsider, but ...
The series opens Dec. 3 with Handel's "Messiah" from Boston's Handel and Haydn Society, the oldest performing arts ...
And at his side through much of the opera and providing most of the comic relief is his long-serving servant Leporello, sung by bass-baritone Samuel Weiser, whose hilarious “catalogue” aria ...
another Royal Opera debutant, had an attractive gruff texture to his voice, while bringing a delicious tragi-comic sensibility to his aria ‘Vecchia zimarra, senti’ in which he bids farewell to ...
Timothy Myers leads the Austin Opera Orchestra & Chorus and a cast of guest vocalists in famous arias and ensembles from operatic masterpieces like Verdi’s “Aida” and Puccini’s “Turandot.” The event ...