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Monthly Archives: March 2010
Brunch with Miss Brenda Harris
It is something to actually sit down and do brunch with an artist of the magnitude of Miss Brenda Harris. This is no Hollywood type confection with a light wieght and exceedingly colourless vocal instrument so oddly favoured by some houses today. Miss Harris is the real deal. A well oiled vocal instrument which has unabashedley reached [...]
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Stunning Macbeth Video Surfaces
Act 1 Mr Greer Grimsley and Miss Brenda Harris Opera Lyra Prima Act 2 Mr. Greer Grimsley and Miss Brenda Harris Opera Lyra Prima COMMANDOpera has found these two pirate video’s of the SENSATIONAL Macbeth prima from Ottawa. March 28 2010. COMMANDOpera has further uploaded them, so that if they are removed COMMANDOpera will break [...]
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Macbeth Reviewed
The above photograph arrives courtesy of the local Ottawa newspaper. COMMANDOpera arrived at the theatre to the not unexpected sight of numerous older men in kilts with their sturdy wives, some more femininely attired in their own respective clan colours than others. Ottawa is home to a significant Scots community who were determined to come out and do [...]
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Macbeth Vittorioso
COMMANDOpera has just returned from The National Arts Centre in Ottawa which hosted the Opera Lyra prima of Macbeth. Mr. Greer Grimsley owned the evening. His intense portrayal of Macbeth is singular and without parallel. Mr. Grimsley’s use of gesture’s: the way he would rub his neck or tug on his collar, or caress Lady Macbeth was the fine art of a great [...]
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Miss Brenda Harris Confirms
Soprano Brenda Harris whose STUPENDOUS assumption of Lady Macbeth prima’s this evening, has finally agreed to a full on interview with COMMANDOpera. This exclusive interview will take place tomorrow, the day after the prima. COMMANDOpera is mindful of the difficulty of conducting an interview with this artist the same day the critical review of Macbeth will go live [...]
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Mr. Greer Grimsley on Macbeth
COMMANDOpera had the opportunity to meet with Mr. Greer Grimsley earlier this week to discuss Macbeth which the artist will be essaying this evening in Ottawa. The interview was conducted just before COMMANDOpera attended the final dress rehearsal, which stunned this most seasoned arbiter of Macbeth (be advised, it is virtually impossible to move this writer and only occurs IF [...]
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SENSATIONAL MACBETH in OTTAWA
COMMANDOpera attended the final dress rehearsal of Macbeth in Ottawa last evening as a prelude to the actual prima which takes place tomorrow night. Macbeth is an opera which has already been defined in great detail at COMMANDOpera recently given it’s esteemed position in the pantheon of this collector. The fact this work is rarely [...]
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Macbeth: Fatal Mia Donna
This Saturday evening COMMANDOpera will take in and review the Opera Lyra Ottawa production of Giuseppe Verdi’s Macbeth which stars Mr. Greer Grimsley as Macbeth alongside Miss Brenda Harris as his Lady. COMMANDOpera would advise this works ranks amongst the top five in personal favour, and thus one is acquainted with every note intimately. Influenced by his friendship in [...]
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Pikovaya Dama at the Mariinsky
The Mariinsky is currently presenting a run of Mr. Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Pikovaya Dama aka The Queen of Spades. What makes this particularly interesting is the inclusion of noted stage director, Mr. Yuri Temirkanov. The rising Russian Soprano Miss Elena Popovskaya as Liza heads an all star cast. This artist is making quite a name for herself [...]
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Moby-Dick Premiere in Dallas