New to the international scene, the Argentine tenor Marcelo Alvarez has been creating a steady global buzz as he moves from debut to debut in various major theaters. And from the evidence of this disc ...
NEW YORK (AP) - When Javier Camarena explodes with joy singing nine high C’s in Donizetti’s “La Fille du Regiment (Daughter of the Regiment),” there’s a good chance the Metropolitan Opera audience ...
Nature cooperated Wednesday night for the Metropolitan Opera’s opening recital at Central Park SummerStage, with balmy temperatures, mild humidity, even a gentle breeze. Only the singers were under ...
Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. These are the sort of discoveries one expects at Donizetti Opera, a festival in the composer’s Northern Italian ...
Saturday night in the Victory Theatre was a remarkable event. The Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra teamed with the Orchestra Chorus and four soloists to present music rarely heard in our town. They ...
Arguably the perfect opera, Donizetti's comedy classic The Elixir of Love (L'elisir d'amore) is coming to Ireland's National Opera House (Wexford Opera House) at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, December 2, ...
Some wags have dubbed it ”The Joan and Lucky Show,” a megabucks march through the sports stadiums of America by two celebrated supernovas of the opera world. Last week Joan Sutherland and Luciano ...
The Daughter of the Regiment is a high comedy, romance, and vocal fireworks that features the Austin Opera Chorus and the Austin Opera Orchestra. An opera in two acts, sung in French with English ...
Yesterday afternoon saw a wonderful event in Carnegie Hall. Juan Diego Flórez, the Peruvian tenor, had the audience exploding in joy. The audience was entirely right. Flórez is a bel canto tenor, and ...