The terrifying night in the museum. Antonio Vivaldi´s opera “Motezuma”, a 285 years old opera-excavation at the theatre in Ulm, Germany.
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Hamburg Pamina cannot fly!
Pregnant Pamina cannot fly! Soprano Julie Fuchs was suspended from the title role of Pamina from the new production of the “Magic Flute” by Hamburg State Opera house.
Happy Easter to all!
Dear friends all over the opera world! Photo: Scene from 2017 production of “Parsifal” by Richard Wagner Opera Views would like to wish you peaceful and happy Easter celebrations full of music, beautiful singing, thoughtful meditation and reflection as well as time for yourself, your mind and spirit! Our friend of Russian and Greek Orthodox confession still have a…
A laugh through tears
Oxana Arkaevas our-of-the-road recital performance in the Podium of Theatee in Ulm By E. Pluta, March 28th, 2018 Armed with a suitcase, acting like a bum, an old woman hobbles onto the empty stage and begins with the wistful retrospect of the old Countess of Queen of Spades, remembering an aria (from Gretry) from her…
Buon compleanno, Signora!
One of the greatest Sopranos of our time Ms Mirella Freni turns 83 today!
Update: Porgy and Bess in Budapest!
“According to Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc.: The Hungarian State Opera did not receive permission to produce Porgy And Bess with a cast of Hungarian singers. “The manner in which this production of Porgy And Bess is being produced is unauthorized and is contrary to the requirements for the presentation of the work.”
Happy Birthday Maestro!
Happy Birthday Plácido! We wish Plácido Domingo, who celebrates today his birthday all the best, great new roles and productions as well as a new great discoveries of young and promising talents and personalities!
Editorial: Does the color really does not matter?! – Budapest’s Porgy and Bess are now white!
“Porgy and Bess is a folk tale. Its people naturally would sing folk music. When I first began work in the music I decided against the use of original folk material because I wanted the music to be all of one piece. Therefore I wrote my own spirituals and folksongs. But they are still folk music – and therefore, being in operatic form, Porgy and Bess becomes a folk opera.”
A true master, a real magician of the sound and dynamics intensity.’
Jansons was born in 1943 in Riga, as the son of the Latvian conductor Arvīds Jansons. His mother Iraida, a Jewish singer, gave his birth in a hiding place escaping the terror of Riga Ghetto, where her father and brother had died.
The singer has to be able to create a space, a particular atmosphere around the personage he is singing!
German Baritone Johannes Martin Kränzle is particularly known for his intense artistic interpretations of complex operatic characters and is regarded as one of the leading baritones of his generation.
Editorial – Tosca will jump anyway!
Bryn Terfel steppes down form singing Scarpia at the MET
Editorial – Do #theytoo ?!
By Opera Views, December 9th, 2017 No criminal charges against Levine! Days after the James Levine´s story about alleged sexual misconduct has broken out, an aching, gnawing feeling of sadness and anger has settled in the heart. One question persistently comes up: Is this over now? I mean this conductor-icon-power plays. Is this a beginning of the new…
Editorial – Sex and the Opera!
In NYC there is not only “The Sex and the City” , but the “Sex at the Opera”! The MET suspends James Levine on account of sexual misconduct!
Bayreuth Triangle – Part 3 – “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg”
Sudden knowledge strikes like lightning and makes one freeze: all this Nazi anti-Jewish propaganda was built on nothing but the air! A frightening realisation, considering its high human cost. At such a moment one can physically feel and realise a power of the theatre.
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (1962-2017)
A sad news arrived this morning. Dmitri Hvorostovsky, world-renowned Bariton passed away on November 22nd in London surrounded by his family.
Bayreuth Triangle 2017-Part 2 – Parsifal! Do not let this chalice pass me by!
This last opera by Richard Wagner was specially composed adapting to the unique acoustics of Festspielhaus and exhibits composer’s message of universal love and eternal freedom. During the last “Parsifal” performance in August 1882 composer himself took the button and conducted the show from the transformation scene till the end. Soon afterwards he travelled to Venice, where on 13. February, the heart attack has terminated his life.
Singers, Staging, Orchestra 