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OPERA AND SCIENCE FICTION A Blog
OPERA AND SCIENCE FICTION A Blog Opera and Science Fiction have much more in common than you would think first. Both are fantasy based on more or less reality. Science fiction stories are often modern sagas, or almost fairy tales. Just think of the Star Wars saga, or E.T. a classic fairy tale. Science fiction […]
Considering Kundry: Wagner’s Most Fascinating Character A Blog by Paul Padillo
Considering Kundry: Wagner’s Most Fascinating Character A Guestblog Paul Padillo Years ago my feathers got ruffled when I read an article arguing Kundry leaves an insignificant impact in Wagner’s Parsifal. He stated incorrectly Kundry’s only lines are in Act 2 “and even then limited,” and suggested it doesn’t even matter WHO sings Kundry, and expressed wonder […]
ELEKTRA – A Damaged Personality With A Sense Of Her Own Degradation
ELEKTRA – A damaged personality with a sense of her own degradation a critique by Nigel Gallimore Richard Strauss Elektra January 26, 2024. 7.30 pm ROH, Covent Garden After forty years of marriage and 43 years together, Sue and I have calculated that the operas we have seen the most live in the theatre are […]
THE RICHARD WAGNER WEB MUSEUM
THE RICHARD WAGNER WEB MUSEUM https://richard-wagner-web-museum.com A guest blog by Nicolas Crapanne, Editor-in-chief of the website The Richard Wagner Web Museum The most ambitious internet project ever dedicated to a composer ! For the first time, a completely unique website dedicated to a classical music composer – available in French since 2015, English, and German […]
Remembering Callas by Paul Padillo
Remembering Callas a Guest Blog by Paul Padillo Maria Callas 42 Videos Maria Callas lived only to the age of 53. Today marks the one hundredth anniversary of her birth. Mind blown. While I’ve written so much about Maria Callas since . . . let’s see, add the 6, carry the 3 and . . […]
How to Search and Find on Opera on Video
Opera on Video has grown greatly and provides you with a great number of opera performances and huge amount of information. This is great! But it may become more difficult to find quickly exactly what you are looking for. NOW we are improving the SEARCH facility even further, to allow you to find what you […]
DAS RHEINGOLD London 2023 A review by Nigel Gallimore
DAS RHEINGOLD London 2023 A review by Nigel Gallimore Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen. Das Rheingold. 23rd September 2023. 7.30 pm ROH, Covent Garden. The story of humanity, the evolution of the human race and society: a critique by Nigel Gallimore. DAS RHEINGOLD on Opera on Video A new Ring Cycle at the ROH is […]
The Story of Opera Bracelets
The Story of Opera Bracelets A guest blog by Cindy Battisti I was only a “hit song” sort of opera lover for the first part of my life. My Grandma would listen to opera on the radio when she was cooking big Sunday dinners. As an adult, I got in the habit of tuning in […]
OPERA IN WARTIME a blog
OPERA IN WARTIME Any war had a big impact on the cultural life and on opera in particular. Opera houses had to be closed during wars and many were destroyed by war. But often opera thrived even during wartime and rose again like a Phoenix afterwards. We will look at World War II and the […]
OPERA AND WAR
OPERA AND WAR We often think of opera being inspired by love, intrigues and conflicts, fights and murder – but inspired by war? Actually there are quite many operas which feature and depict war, and even more with a story with war as background. I will only include operas which feature and depict war. WARS […]
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Flamand on Rigoletto Houston TX 2001 Hvorostovsky Claycomb AronicaYou can request a D/L Assist by clicking the YELLOW BUTTON
Mary Rothwell on Rigoletto Houston TX 2001 Hvorostovsky Claycomb AronicaWhere could I obtain a copy of this dvd?
Jim Eisenberg on I Commedianti (Mayr) Munich 1960 Nicolai Winkelmann Hallstein van KesterenAn adaptation to evening length of Mayr's one acter 'I Virtuosi Nel Teatro' by adding numbers from several other Mayr...
Jörg Behmann on AIDA St.Margarethen 2024 Leah Crocetto, Jorge Puerta, Raehann Bryce-Davis, Gangsoon Kim, Jongmin ParkDas fulminanteste Aida-Bühnenbild, das ich je gesehen habe. Verfügbar in der 3-Sat Mediathek bis 18.11.24 https://www.3sat.de/kultur/musik/aida-sankt-margarethen-2024-100.html
Elizabeth Ryder on BIANCA E FALLIERO Pesaro 2024 Nicolò Donini, Dmitry Korchak, Giorgi Manoshvili, Aya Wakizono, Jessica PrattThank you Flamand, it's all wonderful
Liberty on Le nozze di Figaro Met 1998 Fleming Bartoli Terfel Croft MentzerIve been looking for this video since it first aired in 1998! I was 10 yrs old and fell in...
Maria Teresa Llach Piñol on Marina (Arrieta) San Juan 1984 Alfredo KrausAlfredo Kraus (Jorge) .Ana María González (Marina) .Noel Ramírez (Pascual) . Rafael Torréns (Roque) Este es el reparto de esta...
David on Oedipus Rex Matsumoto 1992 Norman Langridge Terfel OzawaWish it had the English subtittles.
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