Los Angeles Opera began last week with the Pulitzer Prize announcement that “Omar,” the acclaimed new opera by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, was being honored as the year’s best musical ...
Welcome to Opera Abbreviated, your very own series of podcasts designed to give you a pithy sense of the operas being presented by the Metropolitan Opera's Live in HD series. A new production of ...
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With the wealth of operas to choose from, one would think that South Florida’s two major companies could avoid duplicating repertoire in the same season. Madama Butterfly will be heard twice next ...
Verdi’s “Otello” puts extreme demands on any opera company. In these days of reduced forces and budget cuts, the composer’s towering tragedy doesn’t get produced as often as it should. Last month, two ...
If the folks at the San Francisco Opera could sell tickets just to hear Patricia Racette sing the Willow Song and "Ave Maria" from the fourth and final act of Verdi's "Otello," then they'd have ...
Otello is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeare's play Othello. It was Verdi's penultimate opera, and was first performed at the Teatro ...
Continuing Austin Opera's relationship with Italian Operas, Giuseppe Verdi's OTELLO opened at The Long Center last Saturday. To a packed house and a full stage, Verdi's adapted story of Shakespeare's ...