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Monthly Archives: March 2010
Parsifal at Parsifal’s
COMMANDOpera today received the first of a series of photographs for the explosive Calixto Bieito Parsifal which is having it’s prima in Stuttgart this Saturday. Some of these photographs have been released jointly to COMMANDOpera and another venue: Parsifal’s. Parsifal’s is a venue which celebrates all things operatic which are Greek, and given the historical [...]
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Mr. Zoran Todorovich
Photo Credit: Mr. Dirk Schelpmeier. Mr. Zoran Todorovich is a Tenor who has been in the headlights of COMMANDOpera for some time now. On the front page of Mr. Todorovich’s website is this excerpt from a reviewer in Israel: ‘ A big tenor was born“Ladies and gentlemen: It’s over.” The tenor type which is small, [...]
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Lyric Opera Re Dux
Beginning on Saturday, May 15, and continuing every Saturday through July 3, The Bucksbaum Family Lyric Opera Broadcasts of the 2009 2010 Lyric Opera of Chicago season will be rebroadcast internationally by The WFMT Radio Network and heard locally on 98.7WFMT. The broadcasts are on the following Saturdays: Faust / Gounod: May 15 / 4 [...]
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Who Shot J.R. 30 years ago
It was 30 years ago today that the infamous ‘Who shot J.R.’ episode aired. The evening soap opera was catapulted to becoming an overnight sensation after the episode, and over 320 million viewers around the world tuned in to find out who did it the following season. As one recalls, the show was broadcast at 9 P.M. EST. [...]
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Norma at La Monnaie de Munt
Norma will be given two concert performances. First, on March 27th at La Monnaie and at The Palace of Fine Arts on April 2. This pair will be under the baton of Mr. Julian Reynolds. The Norma of the production is the everlasting Miss Edita Gruberova who is still in excellent voice. Miss Gruberova has [...]
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The Gays in Opera
If only it were so. The above takeoff on The Bayeux Tapestry is an amusing way to touch on a topic which is not discussed in Opera circles. Not however because it is a given that gays have always existed as a force within perhaps this most ornate of any musical art form. The reality of the matter [...]
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COMMANDOpera advises Twitter
COMMANDOpera has been utilising the social media twitter since December 7th of last year. The by product of being unable to ‘live blog’ a performance for readers as the WiFi signal was seriously compromised. Here is the link: http://twitter.com/commandopera for those who would like to know immediately the headline of all articles as they go live. Since that time [...]
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Dialogues at the Julliard
COMMANDOpera received this notification in the mail regarding a run of performances which normally this would not excite COMMANDOpera if not for the participation of the commanding woman pictured above, conductor Anne Manson. COMMANDOpera immediately felt the necessity to write after reading her biography to write on the upcoming run because this is a conductor New Yorkers may particularly want [...]
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The Greer Grimsley Macbeth
COMMANDOpera has just concluded a face to face interview with the internationally acclaimed Bass Baritone, Mr. Greer Grimsley. Unusually there will be no published article on the artist at this point. The bulk of the conversation revolved around Mr. Grimsley’s thinking on Macbeth. Now Verdi’s Macbeth is the other opera which resonates with operaphiles deeply: the other [...]
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Il Turco at The Royal Opera House