Ann Haskins talks to Katherine Barkman, recently promoted to the rank of Principal Dancer at San Francisco Ballet.
Scott C Morgan sees Yuri Possokhov’s Eugene Onegin with a new lush, cinematic score by Ilya Demutsky – with dashing José Pablo Castro Cuevas and masterful Victoria Jaiani.
A new ballet on Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin opens at San Francisco Ballet, with choreography by Yuri Possohkov, music by Ilya Demutsky, and designs by Tim Yip.
Guest author Alisa Alekseeva talks to baritone Aleksei Isaev about being a Russian opera singer at this time.
After the opening Eugene Onegin, Italian bass Ferruccio Furlanetto (who made his debut in 1974) was presented with the San Francisco Opera Medal.
There will not be 24, but now 25 voices in La Scala’s gala to open its 2020-2021 season A riveder le stelle (Seeing the Stars Again). On 7 December, the video introducing the evening will feature the voice of Mirella Freni singing “Io son l’umile ancella” from Adriana Lecouvreur.
The theatrical costume is a paradox: it hides, yet at the same time, communicates revealing aspects of a character; it is made to be seen from afar, yet the designers and costume makers care for the tiniest details, even if invisible. Each costume contains thousands of secrets, from colour combining to decoration, from the choice…
When did you start singing? I have been singing singing since I was small boy. However, my first official voice lesson was in September of 1977. The teacher’s name is Dr Robert White Jr. I have studied with him for 38 years. Why did you start singing? It was pointed out to me that I…
John Cranko’s masterpiece, Onegin, returns to the Royal Opera House at the end of this month. Created for the Stuttgart Ballet in 1965, the Royal Ballet first performed this production in 2001 and have since made it a staple of the repertory. The upcoming performances feature role débuts from Principal dancer Natalia Osipova and First Soloist…
Today’s the day, tonight’s the night. Milan celebrates Saint Ambrose (Sant’Ambrogio) and La Scala celebrates Giuseppe Verdi with a new production of La Traviata to open its 2013-2014 season. This is no ordinary opening, with tickets costing €2,000 in the stalls, and Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, together with the President of the Senate, Pietro Grasso, and President of…
Russian opera legend Galina Vishnevskaya has died today, December 11, at the age of 86. Vishnevskaya was born in St Petersburg (Leningrad) 25 October 1926, and cast out by her parents at six weeks. She was raised in absolute poverty by her grandmother. As a ten year old Galina was presented with a gramophone and…
The death of a tyrant, abduction by the secret police and insight into the minds of some of the greatest composers in history are all part of the details that Russia‘s Bolshoi Theatre has discovered in the margins of the centuries-old sheet music in its archives. The discoveries have been made during the digitalization of…
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