IL TROVATORE OPERA COVERAGE

Canadian Opera Co. Wraps 2012-13 Season with 90% Attendance

The Canadian Opera Company has closed another successful opera season by recording an average attendance of 90% for 2012/2013. A total of 114,133 patrons attended the 61 performances of the company's... (more...)

Angela Meade to Star in Cincinnati Opera, Caramoor and Bravo! Vail This Summer

Angela Meade - who earlier this month added Washington National Opera's Artist of the Year honor to her 2012 Beverly Sills Artist Award and her 2011 Richard Tucker Award - is looking forward to a star... (more...)

Sarasota Opera Appoints Stacy Ridenour as Director of Development

Sarasota Opera's Executive Director Richard Russell has announced that the company has appointed Stacy Ridenour as its new Director of Development in an executive search process guided by Arts Consult... (more...)

Long Beach Opera to Stage Ernest Bloch's MACBETH, Beg. 6/15

An overwhelming lust for power, a manipulative wife, and witches' prophecies spur a Scottish general onto a tragic path of betrayal, murder and madness. Long Beach Opera (LBO) closes its 2013 season w... (more...)

BWW Reviews: 'And the Winners Were...' A Report Card for the Metropolitan Opera's 2012-2013 Season

The regular season just ended for the Metropolitan Opera--all that's left is a series of HD rebroadcasts on Lincoln Center Plaza and a couple of low profile concerts in New York City parks--and it's t... (more...)

Joshua Benevento, Melanie Goerlitz and Liora Michelle Perform at Enrico Caruso Room Tonight

Tenor Joshua Benevento, who joined the Metropolitan Opera Chorus this season, will perform operatic arias with sopranos Melanie Goerlitz and Liora Michelle at the Enrico Caruso Room in Little Italy's ... (more...)

Verdi's JERUSALEM and More Set for Sarasota Opera's 55th Season

Sarasota Opera has announced its 2013 - 2014 Fall and Winter programming which will mark the company's 55th consecutive season of performing grand opera on the Florida gulf coast. Highlights will incl... (more...)

Joshua Benevento, Melanie Goerlitz and Liora Michelle to Perform at Enrico Caruso Room, 5/7

Tenor Joshua Benevento, who joined the Metropolitan Opera Chorus this season, will perform operatic arias with sopranos Melanie Goerlitz and Liora Michelle at the Enrico Caruso Room in Little Italy's ... (more...)

BWW Reviews: Houston Grand Opera's IL TROVATORE is Spellbinding and Spectacular

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The Met: Live in HD 2013 Summer Encores Begin June 19

Beginning Wednesday, June 19, the Met will present Summer Encores, featuring select performances from the groundbreaking Live in HD series, in more than 400 movie theaters across the United States. Th... (more...)

DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES to Return to the Met on 5/4

Dialogues des Carmelites, Poulenc's opera about a group of nuns whose faith is tested under the Terror of the French Revolution, will return to the Met repertory on May 4 for the first time since 2002... (more...)

BWW Reviews: HGO's TRISTAN AND ISOLDE is Immaculately Profound, Riveting, and Unforgettable

The 2012-2013 season at Houston Grand Opera (HGO) has been filled with stunning performances of astounding operatic talent; however, their current production of Richard Wagner's TRISTAN AND ISOLDE may... (more...)

2013 Sarasota Youth Opera Camp Set for Sarasota Opera House, 6/10-28

Enrollment is now open for young people ages 8 -18 for Sarasota Youth Opera's 2013 Summer Camp to be held June 10 - June 28, 2013. The annual three-week program will run Monday thru Friday from 9 a.m.... (more...)

Angela Meade Leads I LOMBARDI at Avery Fisher Hall, 4/8

In honor of this year's Verdi bicentennial, there will be a number of upcoming opportunities to hear her perform the great Italian composer's music. The first of these takes place this Monday, April 8... (more...)

Michael Mayer's RIGOLETTO Returns to the Met 4/13

Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer's critically acclaimed new production of Verdi'sRigoletto, which moves the opera's tragic events from a decadent 16th-century Italian court to the glitzy, dep... (more...)

The Met Celebrates Wagner's Bicentennial With Three Complete Cycles of Der Ring des Nibelungen in May

The Metropolitan Opera will commemorate the 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner's birth with three complete performances of his epic four-opera masterwork, Der Ring des Nibelungen. The Ring cycles wil... (more...)

David Daniels and Natalie Dessay Will Lead The Met's GUILIO CAEARE

David Daniels and Natalie Dessay will sing the leading roles of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra inDavid McVicar's production of Handel's Giulio Cesare, which premieres at the Met April 4. Baroque speciali... (more...)

HGO's Spring 2013 Season Features TRISTAN UND ISOLDE, IL TROVATORE and Mariachi Opera

Spring will bring a trio of striking productions to Houston Grand Opera, starting with the return-by-popular-demand of the world's first mariachi opera - Cruzar la Cara de la Luna ('To Cross the Face ... (more...)

Piotr Beczala Sings First Met Performances in Title Role of Gounod's FAUST Tonight

Piotr Beczala will sing the title role in Gounod's Faust for the first time at the Met beginning tonight, March 21, opposite Marina Poplavskaya as Marguerite, a role she sang in the 2011 premiere of D... (more...)

Canadian Opera Company to Close 2012-13 Season With DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES

The Canadian Opera Company closes its 2012/2013 season with a production of Francis Poulenc's operatic masterpiece, Dialogues des Carmelites, described by Variety as "subtle, yet gut-wrenching." Inte... (more...)

Sarasota Opera Announces 2013-14 Season

Sarasota Opera Announces its 2013-14 Season (more...)

BWW Interview: From Butterfly to Little Sparrow, Soprano Patricia Racette Soars

Expect the unexpected from cabaret stylist Patricia Racette. Yes, I said 'cabaret.' If you've only heard her at the Met or San Francisco Opera as Tosca or Madama Butterfly, you'll probably find her pe... (more...)

Piotr Beczala to Sing First Met Performances in Title Role of Gounod's FAUST, 3/21

Piotr Beczala will sing the title role in Gounod's Faust for the first time at the Met beginning March 21, opposite Marina Poplavskaya as Marguerite, a role she sang in the 2011 premiere of Des McAnuf... (more...)

Regional Opera Company of the Week: Arizona Opera

Arizona Opera was originally known as Tucson Opera Company and founded in 1971 by a group of opera enthusiasts. The inaugural season was two performances of The Barber of Seville by Rossini in Tucson... (more...)

HGO's Spring 2013 Season to Feature TRISTAN UND ISOLDE, IL TROVATORE and Mariachi Opera

Spring will bring a trio of striking productions to Houston Grand Opera, starting with the return-by-popular-demand of the world's first mariachi opera - Cruzar la Cara de la Luna ('To Cross the Face ... (more...)