Domingo Conducts Holdridge’s New Ope... Opera Today Dulce Rosa, a brand new opera, had its world premiere Friday night, May 17, 2013 at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica, California. It was produced by Los Angeles Opera, but staged in the smaller theater. 2 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Verdi’s Falstaff at Glyndebourne Opera Today Richard Jones’ 2009 production of Verdi’s Falstaff translates the action from the first Elizabethan age to the start of the second. 2 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Gareth John, Wigmore Hall Opera Today Baritone Gareth John is rapidly accumulating a war-chest of honours. Winner of the 2013 Kathleen Ferrier Award, he recently won the Royal Academy of Music Patrons’ Award and was presented the Silver Medal by the Worshipful Company of Musicians. 3 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

La bohème at ENO Opera Today This second revival of Jonathan Miller’s La bohème was the first time I had caught the production. 3 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Rolando Villazón: Verdi (International Ope... Opera Today It’s Verdi’s bicentenary year and Rolando Villazón has two new CDs to plug — titled somewhat confusingly, ‘Villazón: Verdi’ and ‘Villazón’s Verdi’, the latter a ‘personal selection’ of favourite numbers performed by stars of the past and present. 3 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Brahms Third in San Francisco Opera Today Nicola Luisotti and the San Francisco Opera Orchestra climbed out of the War Memorial pit, braved the wind whipped bay and held spellbound an audience at Cal Performances’ Zellerbach Auditorium at UC Berkeley. 3 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Ariane et Barbe-Bleue on Blu-Ray Opera Today Paul Dukas’ Ariane et Barbe-Bleue, first heard in 1907, once seemed important. Arturo Toscanini conducted the Met premiere in 1911 with Farrar and later arranged some of its music for a 1947 recording with his NBC Symphony. 4 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Glyndebourne: Ariadne auf Naxos Opera Today Utterly mad but absolutely right — Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos started the Glyndebourne 2013 season with an explosion. Strauss could hardly have made his intentions more clear. Ariadne auf Naxos is not “about” Greek myth so much as a satire on art and the way art is made. 5 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Paris Opera Awards 2013 Opera Today http://www.paris-opera-awards.fr/parisoperraawards-9480.html 7 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Michele Mariotti conducts La donna del lago Opera Today Rossini’s La donna del Lago at the Royal Opera House boasts a superstar cast. Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Flórez are perhaps the best in these roles in the business at this time. Yet the conductor Michele Mariotti is also hot news. 7 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story