Luciano Pavarotti House Museum – remembering the singer and the man
Just outside Modena, near where Luciano Pavarotti was born, is the Casa Museo Luciano Pavarotti, the house he built and opened to the public in 2015.
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Royal Opera House Stream goes live with 130 titles
The Royal Opera House has launched its new streaming service with 45 performances and 85 behind-the-scenes features.
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Royal Opera House ballet and opera cancelled for Omicron variant
Due to ‘resource challenges’ caused by the COVID-19 Omicron variant, some performances and tours at The Royal Opera House have been cancelled.
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The Royal Opera to put on fully-staged performances of Tosca
The Royal Opera’s Winter 2020/21 programme will open with 12 performances of Tosca. The revival of Jonathan Kent’s 2006 production will see Anna Netrebko in the title role, Yusif Eyvazov, Gerald Finley and Dan Ettinger conducting.
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Interview with Anna Netrebko on Tosca at La Scala: kissing, killing, and Kabaivanska
Anna Netrebko opens the new season at La Scala – as each year, on 7 December – as Tosca. It will be her fourth time in what is always a prestigious occasion (Italy’s President and other dignitaries will be present) after heading new productions of Andrea Chénier, Giovanna d’Arco, and Don Giovanni. With the ultra-critical…
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Angel Blue answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Singers’ Edition
Q&A When did you start singing? When I was 6 years old. Why did you start singing? My Dad. Which singer inspired you most when you were young? My Dad, my sister, and Leontyne Price Which singer do you most admire? My Dad and Leontyne Price. What’s your favourite role? Violetta and Tosca. What role…
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The play Quartet and the Giuseppe Verdi Rest Home, both in Milan
The Casa di Riposo per Musicisti (Rest Home for Musicians) in Milan is known simply as Casa Verdi (The Verdi Home) and, although Giuseppe Verdi never lived there, his body is buried there, together with that of his wife, Giuseppina Strepponi (the first Abigaille in the premiere of the composer’s Nabucco at La Scala in…
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Interview: Carmen Giannattasio on her first Tosca, Lady Gaga, and homicide
Soprano Carmen Giannattasio has been in demand since she was thrust before the public eye when she won both the First Prize and the Audience Award at Placido Domingo‘s Operalia in Paris in 2002. She took on one of the most challenging soprano roles soon after, singing Violetta La Traviata. Reviewing a 2007 performance at…
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Angela Gheorghiu’s releases first studio recording in six years: Eternamente – The Verismo Album
The studio recording – her first in six years – explores the generation of Italian composers that followed Verdi, including three duets with tenor Joseph Calleja Eternamente – The Verismo Album, Angela Gheorghiu‘s first studio recording in six years, will be released on 20 October 2017, and will feature performances of opera and song by Italian…
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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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Opera snobs won’t stop us going back to La Bohème
By Peter Franklin, University of Oxford The Royal Opera House’s restaging of La Bohème will get the same responses as any other production of the Puccini opera. The savvy enthusiast hedges cautiously, perhaps going with the sceptic’s play-it-safe response: “Well, it puts bums on seats, pays for the things we really want to see… in…
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Renato Cioni’s last interview: remembering Callas
Renato Cioni, who died today, left at interview just a few months ago, talking to Stephen Hastings, the editor of the Italian magazine Musica. Hastings asked him about the London Tosca with Maria Callas fifty years earlier. Two years before singing with Callas, I’d written her a letter, saying that I’d be the happiest man…
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The face of a soprano: Fornasetti’s obsession with Lina Cavalieri
Italian designer Piero Fornasetti was fascinated with the face of soprano Lina Cavalieri, creating over 350 variations of her likeness.
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Gloves off in Washington: Placido Domingo strikes back
Washington Post music critic Anne Midgette was often critical of Placido Domingo during his years with the capital’s opera company. However when she criticized his conducting of Tosca a month ago, Domingo decided that enough was enough, and wrote a letter to her paper. On September 12, Midgette wrote; All the performances were hampered, indeed…
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Angela Gheorghiu: The Rolling Stones have a big sound. You know why? Because they are plugged in!
Angela Gheorghiu is in London to promote a season of Royal Opera House filmed performances, three starring herself. The Royal Opera House is striving to build up opera and ballet audiences by piping 10 productions, five of them live, into 700 cinemas worldwide. The season opener was last night’s live broadcast of Gounod’s “Faust,” with Gheorghiu. Her…
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Talk about last minute replacements: Terfel saves Tosca
Well, of course, he didn’t because she stabbed him first, and then forgot to read the small print on the safe-conduct papers; but that’s another story. Meanwhile at the Met… Is there a great bass-baritone in the house? This desperate cry was answered with a resounding yes at the Metropolitan Opera in New York on Saturday, said The…
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