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2023-10-22 08:32:24
Pacific Opera Victoria in Canada has promoted its... The post Opera’s new chief conductor is its former chorus director first appeared on Slippedisc. The post Opera’s new chief conductor is its former chorus director appeared first on Slippedisc.
2021-09-30 02:17:13
Pacific Opera Victoria and Vancouver Opera Present a Free Broadcast of the Family Opera, the Flight of the Hummingbird
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021, VANCOUVER, B.C. – In recognition of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Pacific Opera Victoria and Vancouver Opera will re-release a free broadcast of the family opera The Flight of the Hummingbird online September 30, 2021, at 9:00 a.m. PDT. The opera will be available to watch online until October 7, 2021. The [...]
2020-12-04 14:10:15
Like many people, this year left director Carson Gilmore with time on his hands. Gilmore is a stage and film director specialising in opera (his most recent project was Gluck's La Corona as part of a Gluck double bill with Pacific Opera Project). Gilmore's lockdown project has been to combine his interests in opera and film to create a series adaptations of opera arias on video which combine opera, experimental film, and music video, while creating an excellent musical record of the singers' efforts. The first film has just been released, filmed in a COVID-safe way, and it doesn't pull any punches. Gilmore uses Cleopatra's aria 'Morte col fiero aspetto' from Johann Adolf Hasse's 1725 serenata, Marc'Antonio e Cleopatra on of the works that effectively made Hasse's name in Italy. When it was premiered in Naples the work featured two of the greatest singers of the day, both cross-dressing, castrato Farinelli […]
All the conducting master class
2020-11-15 22:14:59
original article on LA Times By JESSICA GELTSTAFF WRITER NOV. 11, 20209:08 AM Further proof that the automobile has emerged as an unlikely savior of arts and culture in Southern California: Pacific Opera Project will become the second opera company in the region to stage a drive-in production when it opens “Covid fan Tutte” on Saturday. Based […]
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