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‘Aida’ Review: An Intimate Rendition of an Opera Classic

The Harvard Crimson 03 Dec 2024
The Boston Lyric Opera’s staging of the classic opera “Aida,” with music by Giuseppe Verdi and an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, was a constricted yet intimate performance that shined a spotlight on its strong cast.
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Rigoletto: Sublime singing cannot save a silly opera that’s stuck in the past

Irish Independent 02 Dec 2024
... over the cracks in this production of Giuseppe Verdi’s 1851 opera.
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From the archive: The genius of Giacomo Puccini

The Times/The Sunday Times 30 Nov 2024
... a place among the greatest of the world’s artists — indeed, his work may hardly be entitled to the word great as it is used of the operas of Gluck and Mozart, of Wagner and Verdi.
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Claremont Symphony Orchestra concert to feature music by Verdi, Wagner and Mendelssohn

Daily Bulletin 29 Nov 2024
1, of music by Giuseppe Verdi, Franz Doppler, Richard Wagner and Felix Mendelssohn ... On the program are two opera overtures, those to “La Forza del destino” by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) and to “Tannhäuser” by Richard Wagner (1813-1883).
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Venice theatre’s Otello in ‘blackface’ row

The Times/The Sunday Times 27 Nov 2024
The choice was made by Fabio Ceresa, whose version of the Verdi opera opened at La Fenice in Venice on Saturday ... World ... ‘Opera has really dumbed down since the 17th century’ ... Royal Opera director defends work with banned Russian soprano ... .
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Jeanine Tesori’s new opera ‘Grounded’ is a call to moral accountability

People's World 27 Nov 2024
Tragic operas such as Verdi’s Macbeth, Aïda, La Forza del Destino, not to overlook Prokofiev’s War and Peace and Berg’s Wozzeck, treat war as an inevitable result of human ambition while showing a ...
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A brief look at Giacomo Puccini’s social views on his death centennial

People's World 25 Nov 2024
Verdi’s engagement with political and social issues, both in his operas and his personal life (he was a member of Italy’s first parliament after unification), placed him at the heart of the revolutionary changes transforming Italy.
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Dana Gioia on the Opera, From Tosca to Sweeney Todd

The American Spectator 25 Nov 2024
... Wagner, Gaetano Donizetti, Richard Strauss, and Gioachino Rossini,” with Verdi, Puccini, and Mozart far out ahead of the others — the librettists of the most popular operas are also a select group.
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Opera Singer Loyal To Putin Has Performances Canceled In Naples

Radio Free Europe 22 Nov 2024
The Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Italy, has canceled appearances by opera singer Ildar ... She had led a campaign to keep Abdrazakov from performing in productions of Verdi’s Don Carlos and Attila operas.
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Opera star will be grand marshal of Thomasville Christmas parade

The Lexington Dispatch 22 Nov 2024
Livengood rose to fame on the opera scene as a winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions, going on to make her critically acclaimed Met debut in Verdi’s “Louisa Miller” in 1991.
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Opera Western Reserve stages ‘La traviata’

The Vindicator 21 Nov 2024
Ledesma has played heroes and villains in the operas of Puccini and Verdi as well as roles in new Spanish-language works, and he has performed with New York City Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera and San Diego Opera.
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Venice's La Fenice opera house cancels opening night due to strike

Hindustan Times 21 Nov 2024
Venice's La Fenice opera house cancels opening night due to strike ... It was due to open its 2024-25 season on Wednesday with Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Otello", directed by South Korean Myung-Whun Chung.
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Adèle Hugo: Mélodies sur des poèmes de Victor Hugo review – a daughter’s voice uncovered

The Guardian 21 Nov 2024
... monologue for the student Jean Prouvaire from Les Misérables, and Laurent Naouri, who leads the Dijon Opera chorus in a Hymne des Transportés that seems to be channelling Verdi’s Va Pensiero.
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You can't miss the 2025 Fiat 500e Giorgio Armani edition

Canoe 21 Nov 2024
... Studio, meanwhile, offers the “pure acoustics and beautiful tones of a real recording space”; while Giuseppe Verdi Opera House, Pisa creates “a theatre setting, enjoying a live performance.”.
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The Middle East’s most laid-back city break (with no crowds)

The Times/The Sunday Times 21 Nov 2024
Orchestras, ballets and classical operas are held throughout the year — this season is Verdi’s La Traviata and Simon Boccanegra. Operas are performed in their original languages with English and Arabic subtitles (from £10pp; rohmuscat.org.om).

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