Utah’s own Wendy Bryn Harmer has performed on some of the biggest opera stages in the world, including the Metropolitan Opera ...
“He really admired Napoleon [Bonaparte],” Tara Faircloth, the stage director for the Utah Opera ’s upcoming production of ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Memorable performances included a pair of Strauss operas, a suave villain, a star soprano in “Fidelio” and a new conductor in “Le Nozze di Figaro.” Credit...Metropolitan Opera ...
4 Video: Bellini’s I PURITANI at the Metropolitan Opera Not really: Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen, who’s shown herself indispensable in roles from Tchaikovsky’s QUEEN OF SPADES to Strauss’s ARIADNE ...
If “operatic” is a synonym for “big,” Herman Melville’s sprawling novel “Moby-Dick” should be ideal source material for the stage. Jake Heggie’s 2010 operatic treatment certainly took up a lot of ...
Condensing Melville’s vast and discursive work into a three-hour opera may have seemed as foolish as Captain Ahab’s increasingly desperate voyage to find the whale that maimed him, but Heggie and ...
Beethoven’s “Fidelio,” a timeless monument to love, life, and liberty, will be shown March 15 at the O’Shaughnessy Center in Whitefish as part of The Met: Live in HD program. Sung in German with ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick The Met, a magnet for star singers, flexed its muscles to stack the cast of Beethoven’s only opera, with Lise Davidsen in the title role ...