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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Opera Lyra in Ottawa
A few days back, whilst reading comments in a New York based blog, it was impossible not to notice one particularly giddy yet mean spirited addition regarding a small company’s season announcement. Curiously COMMANDOpera had received that very same announcement earlier in the day and wasn’t going to do anything with it as the venue truly is not representitive of what COMMANDOpera covers. Forget about [...]
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Sunday Matinee Haitian Rara
For todays Sunday Matinee of music which has zero to do with opera, Haitian rara is the feature. Rara is a form of festival music used for street processions, typically during Easter Week. The music centers on a set of cylindrical bamboo trumpets called vaksen (which may also be made of metal pipes), but also [...]
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L’elisir d’amore Review Chicago
The performance begins with conductor Bruno Camponella handling the overture in a simple manner with no particular weight or distinction. And so we begin with Nemorino’s aria ‘Quanto e bella” which is cautiously approached by Mr Filianoti. And now to ‘Della crudele Isotta’. Miss Cabell weaves the story of the elixir with great surety. [...]
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Mr. Javier Camarena L’eroe Nobile
Opera owns a unique property of magnifying the emotions of life exponentially. It is this art form which has made a wasteland of my private life, because opera had acquainted me with romance and love in its deepest form. Something I was never able to find or acheive with any woman I knew intimately. I finally arrived to the notion it was [...]
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Macbeth Opens Lyric Season!!!!
COMMANDOpera has confirmed early EARLY this morning with the highest tiers of the theatre, the Lyric Opera of Chicago season opening new production will be the violent Verdi masterpiece Macbeth. Further, COMMANDOpera has been invited to and accepted an invitation to attend the glamorous opening night; one of the most prestigious red carpet events on the globe. Crew Mantle [...]
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A Question of Time for L’elisir
Photo credit: Dan Rest Tomorrow night which is Saturday January 23rd, The Opera Lyric of Chicago will be broadcasting the opening night prima of their run of Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore. The direct link to the Lyric Opera’s broadcast calendar is found here. Not only is this broadcast available to local audiences, but if you click here the Lyric Opera has [...]
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The Dallas Opera
Photo Credit: Karen Almond The very name of this theatre, The Dallas Opera has a significance which runs extremely deep to anyone and everyone who has followed opera since the post war period. In 1957, civic leaders worked diligently to found a resident opera company in Dallas, including Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. Miller, Jr., Dallas [...]
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COC CARMEN Excellence!
The Canadian Opera Company has JUST NOW broken the news the sensational Georgian mezzo soprano Miss Anita Rachvelishvili who SHOT to international fame triumphantly as Carmen at the December 7th season prima of the Teatro alla Scala last month will make her NORTH AMERICAN debut with the COC. Miss Rachvelishvili will take part as Carmen in [...]
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Cosi fan tutte at the Royal Opera
The Royal Opera House will commence a six day run of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte on the evening of Friday January 29th. The production is the Jonathan Miller contemporary staging of the work which owns something of a biker theme. This would not be to the taste of COMMANDOpera, however it is not to suggest the update may [...]
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Turn of the Screw in Houston