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Grandiose space images from NASA’s Hubble telescope might be the last thing you’d expect see in an early 20th century French opera. However, Marco Brambilla, the artist behind epic video art installations and Kanye West’s “moving painting” music video for Power, has done just that. He created the video backdrop for a new production of […]
Rebecca Ferguson plays opera singer Jenny Lind in The Greatest Showman. The Swedish actress is known for her leading role as Elizabeth Woodville in The White Queen and earned her a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film. She stars as a Swedish soprano in the musical film […]
CLIVE BARDA/CATHERINE ASHMORE Gerald Finley is to play Baron Scarpia for the first time Here is a man, Rome’s Chief of Police, who actually keeps a torture chamber in his apartment at the Palazzo Farnese. Canadian baritone Gerald Finley, who makes his role debut as Scarpia in the Royal Opera’s revival of Tosca on January […]
1. Gaetano Donizetti, composer of around 75 operas including Lucia di lammermoor and L’elisir d’Amore was born on November 29, 1797. 2. November 29 was the date of the death in 1643 of Italian opera pioneer Claudio Monteverdi… 3. …and the date of death in 1924 of Giacomo Puccini, who composed La bohème, Tosca, Turandot […]
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When there two occur together, the result can be outstanding. Musically, Rodelinda is one of Handel’s finest works; plot-wise, it is a mess, even by the shambolic standards of most operas. Rodelinda is the wife of Bertarido whose kingdom has been usurped by the evile Grimoaldo. Bertarido has faked his own death, without telling his […]
With more than 100 members of the London Symphony Chorus crammed onto the platform along with a full-size orchestra that fielded among other instruments four harps, two tubas, and six basses, it was suddenly clear that Rattle’s argument for a new supersize concert hall in the City has something going for it. Berlioz’s treatment of […]
Director Richard Jones, whose previous work at the Royal Opera included the controversial satire about reality TV star Anna Nicole Smith, was not giving much away during a recent Covent Garden Insight event on La Bohème, but soprano Nicole Car described designer Stewart Laing’s new sets as “spectacular”. Laing won a Tony Award for the […]
The latest gem is Zazà by Ruggero Leoncavallo, composer of Pagliacci. Why the opera has been so rarely performed is a mystery. True, there is not the climactic double murder of Leoncavallo’s earlier opera but the finale as the heroine faces up to her lover’s betrayal is just as shattering. No soprano is more suited […]
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE Mozart wrote Mitridate, Re Di Ponto when he was just 14 I suppose they didn’t have GCSEs at the time, but there must have been something more appropriate for a 14-year-old boy to be doing. We should all be grateful that he didn’t spend too much time on other distractions, though, for […]
