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Mitridate, re di Ponto review — a fine cast bring Mozart’s messy drama to life

The Times/The Sunday Times 02 Jun 2023
★★★★☆ ... Yes, the situation is a hot emotional mess ... Granted, this 1770 opera seria needs to come with an advisory warning. Mozart was onlySponsored. Related articles. FIRST NIGHT . OPERA ... Neil Fisher. FIRST NIGHT ... OPERA. Rigoletto — university-themed Verdi flunks out ... .
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RPT: OPINION - AI Unlikely to Replace Humans in Creating New, Beloved Art Masterpieces

Urdu Point 01 Jun 2023
"Certainly, on one hand, inputting all existing classical music (symphonic, instrumental, for chamber ensembles, opera, ballet and so forth) into a computer and then give it the task of coming up with a new sensational composition the likes of Beethoven's 5th symphony or Verdi's opera masterpiece Aida is a fascinating idea.
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Michael White’s classical news: The Bevan Family Consort; Princess Ida; Il Trovatore; Sāvitri; The Holst Singers

Islington Tribune 01 Jun 2023
Verdi’s Il Trovatore is one of the blockbusters of 19th-century Italian opera ... A challenge for directors but a gift for glorious voices, there’s a new production running at the Royal Opera House June 2-July 2 that looks good ... • With no shortage of opera in London this week, the ...
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Barbara Rose Shuler, Intermezzo: Celebrating New Beginnings

Monterey Herald 01 Jun 2023
Other notable works include the opera “The Blackened Man,” a prizewinner in the International Verdi Opera Competition; the oratorio Saint Cuthbert; a setting of Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale” for the Hertfordshire Chorus; and his highly acclaimed “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” for Opera Holland Park.
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Rigoletto review – Verdi’s jester locks horns with the Bullingdon Club

The Guardian 31 May 2023
Opera Holland Park, London In an engaging but problematic staging, the Duke’s court is relocated to interwar Oxford, with Alison ... The fear that runs through Verdi’s opera is immediately evoked; the life-or-death high stakes, not so much.
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OPINION - AI Unlikely to Replace Humans in Creating New, Beloved Art Masterpieces

Urdu Point 31 May 2023
"Certainly, on one hand, inputting all existing classical music (symphonic, instrumental, for chamber ensembles, opera, ballet and so forth) into a computer and then give it the task of coming up with a new sensational composition the likes of Beethoven's 5th symphony or Verdi's opera masterpiece Aida is a fascinating idea.
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Rigoletto review — university-themed Verdi flunks out

The Times/The Sunday Times 31 May 2023
★★☆☆☆. The decadent court of Mantua moves closer to home in Cecilia Stinton’s production of Verdi’s revenge tragedy, which opens the Opera Holland Park season ... .
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Italy's La Scala to open new season with Verdi classic

Reuters 29 May 2023
MILAN, May 29 (Reuters) - Milan's La Scala theatre will kick off its 2023-24 season in December with Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Don Carlo" and plans to step up efforts to burnish its green credentials ... Verdi's works have been performed at La ...
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Original production dazzles at China Opera Festival

Shenzhen Daily 29 May 2023
Alongside Western operas, including Wagner’sDer fliegende Hollander” and Verdi’s “La Traviata,” and such Chinese operas as “The White-Haired Girl,” “The Love Ballad of Kangding,” and “Li Qingzhao,” Shenzhen’s production “The Pioneers” stood out by telling a contemporary ...
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The Times view on Jeremy Paxman: Grand Inquisitor

The Times/The Sunday Times 29 May 2023
Jeremy Paxman conveys encouragement as well as fair-mindedness to nervous students ... In Verdi’s opera Don Carlo, the Grand Inquisitor strikes terror into the heart of even so exalted a figure as King Philip II of Spain ... Related articles ... .
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Adele Thomas: ‘I was too common for opera’

The Times/The Sunday Times 28 May 2023
... Verdi aria on the Tannoy. “I’m not a typical opera director,” she remarks ... first Verdi’s Il trovatore (a co-production with Zurich Opera) at the ROH, then Handel’s Semele at Glyndebourne.Sponsored ... How the 8ft Irish Giant became an opera star.
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Stellar Program Chosen For Brevard Music Center Season

The Tribune Papers 26 May 2023
You will be able to find Broadway legends such as Patti LuPone and Audra McDonald, a number of chamber ensembles and symphony orchestras performing, Bela Fleck with a Blue Ridge Banjo Concert, the Janiec Opera Company singing Verdi’s La Traviata or Sondheim’s Into the Woods, a ...
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Michael White’s classical news: Along the Road; St Marylebone Festival; Opera Holland Park; Kenneth Leighton

Islington Tribune 25 May 2023
It’s that time of year when country-house opera comes to London, courtesy of Opera Holland Park whose season starts May 30 with a new production of Verdi’s Rigoletto ... • One of the world’s most celebrated organists, Olivier Latry, comes to the Royal Festival Hall on May 31, performing mighty repertoire including transcriptions of Wagner operas.
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Bo van de Graaf: Shinjuku

All About Jazz 25 May 2023
Saxophonist and composer. Bo van de Graaf. saxophone, alto ... His Dutch ensemble, I Compani, has been active for almost thirty years ... He fashioned a fascinating jazz-opera based on Verdi's Aida (BV Haast Records, 2001), and a big band, Latin jazz tribute to food- themed multi-media. On his release, Off the Record ... Archie Shepp. saxophone, tenor. b.1937 ... ">.
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'Just Because' : New Orleans singer-pianist Jon Cleary gets to the bottom of 'a great melody'

The Advocate 25 May 2023
When Jon Cleary was 18 years old, he made his first trip to the city from which his favorite music came ... 8 p.m. Sunday. Chelsea’s Live!, 1010 Nicholson Drive. $20. chelseaslive.com and joncleary.com ... On further examination, he found that “A Little Word” duplicates the lilting tune in “Caro nome,” an aria in Giuseppe Verdi’s 1851 opera, “Rigoletto.” ... .

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