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Royal Opera House: new ballet and opera streams
Wayne McGregor’s Dante Project from tonight and five new releases from New Year’s Eve, including one LIVE broadcast.
Macbeth
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La Scala’s Macbeth – comments and photo album
A gallery of images of Macbeth, which opened the opera season at La Scala last night, 7 December, attended by Italy’s President.
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Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy ruffles La Scala’s feathers
On the day that La Scala opened its doors for its season opener, Macbeth, the Prada Foundation in Milan welcomed Riccardo Muti for a series of masterclasses.
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Italy mourns the death of opera director Graham Vick at 67
Italy mourns the loss of the opera director Graham Vick who died today at 67 of Covid-related complications.
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Conductor Nello Santi – who conducted 401 performances at The Met – has died at 88
The conductor Nello Santi has died at 88. He last worked at La Scala in November 2017, when he was 86, conducting Nabucco. He was born in 1931 in Adria in the Veneto region. He was the director of Zurich Opera from 1958 to 1969. In 1960, Santi conducted the Wiener Philharmoniker for Don Carlo…
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A first listen to the new Maria Callas Live: Remastered Live Recordings 1949-1964
More than a gift to their own coffers, Warner Classics in releasing Maria Callas Live is giving fans of La Divina and lovers of opera a meticulously restored collection of some of her finest performances to treasure. It is timed to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of her death in Paris on 16 September 1977. The…
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Maria Mudryak answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Singers’ Edition
Q&A in italiano When did you start singing? My first performance was when I was three years old, then when I was five I started my musical training, and at six I recorded my first CD featuring twelve children’s songs. Why did you start singing? I started to sing because I heard children singing in…
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1000s of unseen Giuseppe Verdi autograph scores and letters from his home archive are scanned for public access
Giuseppe Verdi bought Villa Verdi in 1848 and it still belongs to his descendants. He moved in with his future wife, Giuseppina Strepponi, in 1851, and they lived there until her death in the house in 1897. It is located in Sant’Agata in the Province of Piacenza, just 8km from the village of Le Roncole,…
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Simon Keenlyside is “singing on the top of his form” or has a “tendency to shout tonelessly”?
Simon Keenlyside’s British début as Macbeth at The Royal Opera House has both bemused and wowed the critics. After the live relay we can all have our say, but here is a smattering of divided opinion from the opening night critics. Hilary Finch in The Times was blown away: The English baritone, singing on the…
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