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Russian opera and ballet theatre located in Saint Petersburg
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Royal Opera House
2016-08-19 14:13:21
Amazing ballet and opera settings that will make you want to travel
View over Paris, at dusk, from the Maine-Montparnasse tower ‘For I assure you, without travel, at least for people from the arts and sciences, one is a miserable creature!’ stated Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . For generations, composers and choreographers have been inspired by exotic settings around the world to create their art. Use our destination guide to plan your holiday to the places that inspired the great stories, characters, music and dance this Season. And if you can’t get away for a physical holiday then escape to a magical destination by watching a performance at the Royal Opera House. Rhineland, Germany Middle Rhine River, Germany Vincenzo Bellini ’s Norma is set amongst the Druid temples and sacred groves of Roman-occupied Gaul . Your local travel agent may look at you strangely if you try to book a trip to Gaul, considering it hasn’t existed since the fifth […]
2016-05-30 15:00:41
Evensong
When Neil Shicoff celebrated the 40th anniversary of his 1975 stage debut as Ernani in Cincinnati, no one had any idea that it would, essentially, mark the end of his career. In 2014 he added the roles of Canio (at Wiener Staatsoper) and Calaf (at Volksoper Wien) to his repertoire to great acclaim. Indeed, speaking with him just a few months between those debuts, we talked about other roles which he was considering. He also discounted the idea of managing an opera company after the bizarre situation where he was considered by the press and public to be the de facto successor to Ioan Holender as Intendant of Staatsoper, and was shaken by the unexpected decision by the Austrian government in 2007 to give the job to Dominique Meyer Shicoff was so upset by the decision that he withdrew from a new production of Benvenuto Cellini at Salzburg that […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2015-01-12 12:35:40
Just in: Towering Russian singer has died
We’re getting reports of the death of Elena Obraztsova. The great mezzo-soprano was 76. She was having medical treatment in Germany. Born in Leningrad during the siege, Elena came to attention in a 1963 Boris Godunov at the Bolshoi. She performed and recorded extensively abroad with Karajan and Abbado, for whom she opened the 1977 La Scala season in Don Carlos. In 1978, she filmed Carmen opposite Plácido Domingo in a Franco Zeffirelli TV production. In 2007 Obraztsova she became artistic director of opera at the Mikhaylovsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, resigning after a year though maintaining her links with the theatre.
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