TOSCA Returns to the Royal Opera House in February
by Stephi Wild
- Jan 16, 2024
This February, The Royal Opera’s Tosca returns to Covent Garden. Jonathan Kent’s staging receives its 14th revival since its premiere in 2006 and this year will showcase debut performances from several artists new to the Royal Opera House stage.
International Opera Awards 2023 Shortlist Revealed
by Stephi Wild
- Oct 11, 2023
The International Opera Awards has announced the shortlist for this year's Awards, which will be held at Teatr Wielki, Polish National Opera, Warsaw on Thursday 9 November.
Review: Oh Goddess, Bellini's NORMA Returns to the Met
by Richard Sasanow
- Mar 10, 2023
You’ve got to admit that the Met had a lot of guts to dedicate this season’s performances of Vincenzo Bellini’s NORMA (libretto by Felice Romani) to the memory of Maria Callas on the 100th anniversary of her birth. Hers was simply one of the most legendary portrayals of the role, by a fabled singer. Period. But Yoncheva--and her costars--pulled off the performance with aplomb and made the Met audience very happy indeed.
Sonya Yoncheva to Star in Bellini's NORMA at the Met in February
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Jan 23, 2023
After her highly acclaimed performances as Fedora earlier this month, soprano Sonya Yoncheva will return on February 28 for her Met role debut as the fearless title priestess of Bellini’s scorching bel canto drama Norma.
New Production Of Giordano's FEDORA Marks 150th The Met: Live In HD Transmission
by A.A. Cristi
- Jan 10, 2023
Following its Met premiere on New Year's Eve, David McVicar's critically acclaimed new production of Giordano's Fedora, starring soprano Sonya Yoncheva and tenor Piotr Beczała, is broadcast live to selected cinemas across the UK on Saturday 14th January, at 5.55pm GMT, as part of The Met: Live in HD series.
Giordano's FEDORA Gets Encore Screening at The Ridgefield Playhouse on January 22
by A.A. Cristi
- Jan 5, 2023
The Met's 2022–23 season of live movie theater transmissions continues at The Ridgefield Playhouse. The first screening of 2023 is an Encore in HD presentation of Umberto Giordano's Fedora on Sunday, January 22, 2023 at 12:30pm as part of the FirstLight Home Care Classical Series, underwritten by Liz & Steven Goldstone, and Sabina Slavin, with support from Whistle Stop Bakery.
Review: Met Audience Tips Its Hat to FEDORA on New Year's Eve
by Richard Sasanow
- Jan 1, 2023
Musicologist Joseph Kerman is probably most widely remembered for calling Puccini’s TOSCA “a shabby little shocker.” I wonder whether he’d have something similar to say about Giordano’s FEDORA, which brought the Met audience to its feet on New Year’s Eve?
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