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[ad_1] Backstage at the Metropolitan Opera, a donkey in a pink jester hat patiently awaited his cue before the curtain opened with Monday’s re-enactment of Puccini’s “La Bohème.” It was 15-year-old Wanda, with beautiful brown stripes that run from her back to her tail. Making her Met debut this season, Wanda plays a brief but …
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[ad_1] DETROIT – “When a man goes missing,” says Betty Shabazz, wife of Malcolm X, “does the sky bleed for him or does the sunset ignore his tears?” The beginning of a smoldering aria, these words may be the most poetic and poignant in Anthony Davis’ opera “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X.” …
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[ad_1] An opera composer would need the epic talents and epic courage of a Richard Wagner to think of an adaptation of “Hamlet” and think: “Yes, I have this.” “My first reaction,” Brett Dean said more modestly, “was to say no, I couldn’t handle something this big.” About 10 years ago, however, Dean put his …
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[ad_1] Ms. Berganza turned to José Rifá, a Spanish priest who had long admired her singing, for spiritual guidance. She left the priesthood to marry him and regularly introduced herself as Mr. Berganza she. They divorced 10 years later. Full information about the survivors was not immediately available. Miss Berganza made her operatic debut as …
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[ad_1] During her final rehearsals, Stone continued to refine the details, meticulously looking at the speed of the turntable and whether one of the singers should wear a jacket instead of a cardigan. “A show that will keep the Met on its toes,” said Gelb with such originality. Still, Stone said he eventually needed to …
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[ad_1] BERLIN — There’s a show for anyone who wants more opera in their own way from Strauss’s “Ariadne auf Naxos”, or who craves works that embrace both modernism and melodic wit (with an elegant storytelling throughout): Jaromir Weinberger’s “Puppy Schwanda.” Alongside revivals of Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo” and Mozart’s “Don Giovanni”, a new production of this …
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[ad_1] II. German lighting designer Urs Schönebaum, who often collaborates with Robert Wilson, is responsible for Curtain. Here, Schönebaum uses lighting effects and a dark palette to dramatize the conflicts between Wotan, the chief of the gods; angry wife Fricka; and his beloved but impudent daughter Brünnhilde. Schönebaum said “lighting was part of the set” …
[ad_1] He saw his first opera at the age of 10, when he performed in his father’s amateur production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” in a church hall. It was clearly a lo-fi production: the costume his father wore for the role of Papageno was “a flat hat and some pan-pipes tied around his neck …
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[ad_1] He saw his first opera at the age of 10, when he performed in his father’s amateur production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” in a church hall. It was clearly a lo-fi production: the costume his father wore for the role of Papageno was “a flat hat and some pan-pipes tied around his neck …
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[ad_1] This grim and dizzying slice of existentialism called Samuel Beckett’s Land doesn’t exactly scream to be adapted musically, but the world of opera, where tragedy and comedy coexist, is where at least one of his plays fits perfectly. Beckett’s masterfully written “Endgame” opera “Fin de Partie” is having its French premiere. April 28 at …
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[ad_1] As the longest strike in company history turns into the worst global pandemic in a century, taking over the directorship of the Paris Opera a year ahead of schedule could reasonably have shaken Alexander Neef. But if it did, it doesn’t show. This German impresario, who dresses elegantly and speaks carefully, would not be …
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[ad_1] PARIS: There is never anything too normal in opera. After all, no other art form demands such an extreme suspension of disbelief. However, after the disruptions caused by the strikes and the Covid-19 pandemic, the biggest goal of the Paris Opera, which announced its program for the 2022-23 season this week, was normalcy. “An …
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