Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro is in the soprano’s DNA, but she’s never thought about directing it. Creating her own production has been daunting and fascinating – and her son’s building blocks even hel…
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‘A Pavarotti rebirth’: the Samoan tenor taking over the world’s most gilded opera stages ⊕
Born on a tiny, impoverished South Pacific island, Pene Pati remembers going to school without food. Now he is performing in operas at La Scala and the Met
Along roads of scarlet hibiscus and exuberan…
19 days ago
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen album review – Luisi has a keen sense of the operatic architecture ⊕⊕
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Captured live in concert performances, Fabio Luisi’s clear-sighted command and strong orchestral playing make this Wagner set freque…
41 days ago
Giving and misgivings: opera managers must choose their poison ○
Opera needs big money: opera chiefs need big donors. New York’s Metropolitan Opera has just lost a $200m investment, but should it have accepted it in the first place?
Opera’s stories of power aren’t …
3 months ago
Lise Davidsen and James Baillieu: Live at the Met album review – electrifying renditions make the momentous intimate ⊕
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Davidsen/Baillieu
Recorded in New York in 2023, the soprano sings Strauss, Wagner, Grieg and more to thrilling effect, her sincerity and passion matched perfectly on piano
Lise Davidsen and Jame…
4 months ago
New York’s Met Opera announces ‘necessary’ layoffs and pay cuts ⊖⊖
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‘Cost-cutting’ announcement comes amid uncertainty over deal struck with Saudi Arabia to perform in Riyadh
New York’s Metropolitan Opera has announced a round of layoffs, pay cuts and program reductio…
6 months ago
From the Met to maximum security: Joyce DiDonato is on a mission to bring opera to the people ⊕⊕
The celebrated American mezzo-soprano has graced the world’s top opera houses, but is equally passionate about performing to first-timers – and inmates
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9 months ago
‘No Russian words from my lips, no Russian music from my hand’: the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra hit the UK ○
With apps giving them air-raid warnings, the Kyiv-based musicians now see themselves as soldiers and their instruments as weapons. So what will they play when they arrive in Britain this month?
‘Peopl…
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