Latest and Breaking Opera and Ballet News and Top Stories - July 2
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"Dress size is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone."
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Legendary soprano Jessye Norman talks weight, race and what it really takes to be an opera star
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Rupert Christiansen introduces mezzo-soprano Clare Presland, the winner of the 2014 Susan Chilcott Award
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Oh, those wicked Stepsisters! With their zany costumes and me-me-me antics, they come perilously close to stealing the show in Alexei Ratmansky’s Cinderella – and many of you have told us that this dreadful duo was your favou...
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Stanton Welch’s grandiose production of La Bayadère has sets and costumes by Peter Farmer, a master designer of story ballets (audiences of The Australian Ballet would know his work from our productions of Giselle, Manon, and Madam...
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Who would have thought that the English National Ballet would be popular with an early-morning music festival crowd? In past years Glastonbury—a major music festival in England—has experiemented with several different kinds of performanc...
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Having always wanted to do something around the wealth of ballet GIFs on Pinterest and Tumblr, we decided to use them as a basis for these new fan... The post Ballet in Westeros: GIF Poster Concepts appeared first on The Ballet Bag .
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Set designer Anthony McDonald speaks about tackling Mozart's less well-known opera
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Antonio Pappano conducts a super production of Strauss's multi-layered masterpiece, says John Allison
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Arts Council England today announced their plans for the next three years. Rupert Christiansen is impressed
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Worried about the future of opera in America? Don't be!
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Dmitri Hvorostovsky: One of the inspirations for Barihunks Barihunk Dmitri Hvorostovsky, who was one of the original inspirations for creating this site seven years ago, seems to just get sexier with each passing year. His voice and brea...
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I’m not going to lie–HQ and I haven’t been running in about three weeks–and 10K training (for the Philly 10K I wrote about a couple months ago) has kind of crept up on us. I was kind of oblivious to the fact that ...
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by Melissa Wimbish It’s dificil to compare the so […]
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ASH LAWN OPERA FESTIVAL (Paramount Theater, Charlottesv […]
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Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea was the “shabby, little shocker” of the 17th century. It’s about lust, obsession, murder and revenge. So, it’s a bit surprising that all too often it comes off ...
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Seattle—Seattle Opera and AVIE Records announced today […]
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“It is essential to do everything possible […]
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From The Arts Desk Q&A Sebastian Scotney interviews Brigitte Fassbaender “I had life-long self doubt. But this belongs with it. You must never feel content with yourself” ~~ The interview on BBC radio 3 is still available...
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It's been too long, cher public, since La Cieca last lauded the true unsung heroes of parterre box: our advertisers.
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The Bicycle Opera Project has announced dates and rep for their 2014 Ontario tour which will take seven contemporary Canadian operas to 14 towns and cities across Ontario. The singers are soprano Larissa Koniuk (founder of the Bicycle Op...
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‘When two men like us set out to produce a “trifle”, it has to become a very serious trifle’, wrote Hofmannsthal to Strauss during the gestation of their opera about opera.
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I came across this performance of Mozart's Great C-minor Mass on YT. It was labeled "Best performance"). While the overall performance is certainly not the best I've ever heard, I was charmed by the soprano soloist: Dorothe...
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We who love opera and music in all genres are known to talk about musical geniuses, whether it is Bach, Mozart, Wagner, Ellington, Sondheim or any name you wish to invoke. There have been geniuses in other fields who have had a propensit...
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This week, Our Own Jungfer Marianne Leizmetzerin presents what is perhaps the briefest Bühnenweihfestspiel on record.
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In 1985 the Royal Opera House staged film director john Schlesinger’s production of Der Rosenkavalier to mark the 25th anniversary of Sir Georg Solti’s house debut. It’s an essentially traditional production. We are i...
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On Saturday the parents of our Year 11 students were invited to a special evening of performances in Richmond Park to […] The post Congratulations to our Year 11 graduates appeared first on Royal Ballet School .
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The Dancers Company is heading out on the road this winter, bringing a triple bill of classical works to regional audiences. The witty, boy-laden Rimbombo was made on The Dancers Company last year by Simon Dow, a former principal artist ...
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It's no secret that flash mob performances been somewhat taken over by corporations in recent years. But that doesn’t stop viewers from enjoying the results, whether in person or on the web. Take this charming example orchestrated by t h...
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Yesterday the Bavarian State Opera streamed a telecast of its new production of Rossini’s William Tell. The production team, lead by Antú Romero Nunes, was booed during their curtain calls. This was a show was best audited with the pictu...
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It’s been a fabulous two weeks off from the blog–but I’ve missed it! HQ and I spent three days on the beach to celebrate my birthday–which was wonderful. After we got home from the beach, I quickly jumped on a tra...
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Rupert Christiansen laments Glyndebourne's decision to perform La Finta Giardiniera, an early work by Mozart
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Rupert Christiansen reviews Glyndebourne's new production of La Finta Giardiniera, an early work by Mozart
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traviata et nous is a documentary by Philippe Béziat about the creation of the 2011 Aix Festival production of Verdi’s La Traviata. The stars are stage director Jean-François Sivadier and his leading lady, Natalie Dessay. It̵...
