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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-12-19 16:22:40
Locke’s List for 2023: Notable Operatic Recordings Plus
[…] by the internationally renowned soprano Nicole Cabell. In February, the work will be given three performances, with the dialogue in English (and with surtitles), by Boston Lyric Opera at the Huntington Theatre. Nineteenth century: Some unfamiliar yet often very engaging early nineteenth-century operas got first (or first adequate) recordings, including Meyerbeer’s early Jephtas Gelübde (Jephthah’s Vow, 1812), Cherubini’s 1813 Les Abencérages (of which one tenor aria was previously familiar to opera lovers, from a Roberto Alagna recording), and Il proscritto, an 1842 opera by an important contemporary of the young Verdi, Saverio Mercadante. The Mercadante opera has won the award for best recording of a complete opera at the International Opera Awards. Auber’s Le Philtre (1831), a work whose libretto, adapted to Italian taste, would be set by Donizetti as the still widely loved L’elisir d’amore. Auber’s work is particularly fascinating for this reason, since opera lovers can hear another […]
Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2023-12-01 13:01:31
Royal Opera House, LondonDamiano Michieletto’s 2015 pairing of the two short operas returns for its third revival with a superb cast including Roberto Alagna, and carefully if sometimes solidly paced by Daniel OrenItalian neorealism of the 1950s and 60s lurks behind Damiano Michieletto’s 2015 Covent Garden
2023-09-20 18:16:00
San Francisco Opera Opening Concert
Aleksandra Kurzak and Roberto AlagnaSFO opening night concertPhoto: Cory Weaver/San Francisco OperaStarting in 2021, San Francisco Opera switched from programming an opera for opening night to programming a concert. The last two years were great; 2021 featured the dynamic duo of Rachel Willis-Sørensen and Jamie Barton in a richly varied and delightful program; last year featured a bunch of different singers doing their thing, mostly marvelously. This year, we got returning soprano Aleksandra Kurzak and, in what Matthew Shilvock termed "a long overdue debut", Kurzak's husband, tenor Roberto Alagna.Alagna, you might or might not know, has been making headlines since the mid-1990s: the tragedy of his first wife's early death, leaving him a widower with a small daughter; his romance with soprano Angela Gheorghiu and their marriage on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera house, with officiant Rudy Giuliani, back in the days when Giuliani was hated for fewer reasons than now; the tempestuous […]
2023-09-08 18:25:00
[…] loud). Not to mention, the orchestra section is very big and you can be very far from the stage if you sit there!And I've also found the sound in the back of the balcony extremely immediate (the singers sound as though they are ten feet away) but also a little harsh and blarey. Definitely don't sit near the walls in the Grand Tier and Dress Circle!That said, you can stream tonight's open concert, with Roberto Alagna and Alexandra Kurzak. Details are on the SFO web site.
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