For the primary time in years, the Wagner Music Competition started on the finish of final week in Bayreuth, Bavaria, with out former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who excused herself to attend. The viewers watched a brand new manufacturing of the opera Tristan and Isolde beneath the baton of Semjon Byčkov, chief conductor of the … Read more
77 The nice Peruvian tenor Iván Ayón Rivas returns to Peru to current a rare live performance on the nation’s premier stage, The Municipal Theater of Lima (Jr. Ica 377 – Cercado de Lima)in tribute to the Italian composer, Giacomo Puccini, commemorating the centenary of his demise. Acknowledged for his expertise and prodigious voice, he … Read more
With 20 years {of professional} profession, which ends in 2024, the Mexican tenor Javier Camarena (Xalapa, 1976), some of the necessary singers on the worldwide operatic degree, acknowledges that he’s in a transition stage in vocal and creative phrases. I am 48 years outdated and I am already feeling my age.admits the acclaimed performer in … Read more
Review Opera © Bernd Uhlig Andrea Breth’s cinematic direction van The turn of the screwraises more questions than it answers. Good choice. Because as a spectator you involuntarily color the dramatic white space with your own horror images: a nightmare like a connect-the-dots puzzle. The turn of the screw Andrea Breth Until May 14 in … Read more
The National Opera Orchestra of Montpellier announced on Tuesday that the African-American conductor Roderick Cox has been appointed to the position of music director, succeeding the Dane Michael Schonwandt who held this position between 2015 and 2023. “This young American conductor of great talent will accompany us brilliantly (…) towards one of our great goals: … Read more
He recently sang at the Vienna State Opera, in a month he will debut at the National Theater in Prague, and then he will finish the season at La Scala in Milan. Bass-baritone Adam Plachetka has been traversing the world and the Czech opera scene for 20 years. “Thanks to the pandemic and I had … Read more
The new production of Antonín Dvořák’s most famous opera, which premieres this Friday, March 8, at Prague’s National Theater wants to emphasize the deeper level of the story and focus on the psychological development of the heroine. Rusalka, directed by the creative duo Skutr, also focuses on the clash between the human world and the … Read more
Popular wisdom (what a thing) advises against traveling by boat or getting married on Tuesdays. Although the saying doesn’t say it, it seems that it is not very advisable to go on a cruise if you have done some work in Auschwitz. Anna Lisa Franz, young wife of a German diplomat, is on her way … Read more
No great historical figure escapes it. The public places it on a pedestal and it becomes a monument to inertial worship. Saturday’s 200th anniversary of Bedřich Smetana’s birth is an opportunity to demystify his legacy and remember what he actually means to Czech culture. “For people, it is a myth that we either condemn or … Read more
A year after the death of King Přemysl Otakar II. takes place in Brandenburg in Bohemia, the revival of which was presented by the Moravian-Silesian National Theater this Thursday. Bedřich Smetana’s first opera brings the audience closer to the atmosphere of the 13th century, when Brandenburg Margrave Ota Brandenburg invaded Bohemia, completely devastated it and … Read more