Henri Cain

Merola Opera Program Continues Summer Festival Season With Schwabacher Summer Concert

Bay Area audiences are invited to revel in the passion and melody of classic opera, as the young artists of the 2024 Merola Opera Program perform extended scenes from Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia, Gounod's Faust, Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, Massenet's Cendrillon, Puccini's La bohème, and Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos.

BWW PREVIEW: CENDRILLON - My First Real Opera, My First College Show

BWW PREVIEW: CENDRILLON - My First Real Opera, My First College Show

BWW Review: Big Nose, Big Heart, Big Performance from Roberto Alagna as Met's CYRANO

I first heard tenor Roberto Alagna in the days when he was being touted as “The 4th Tenor”—chutzpah that only a record company could come up with, placing him in the hallowed company of Carreras, Domingo and Pavarotti. Fast forward more than 20 years and he's still here. As Cyrano, the soldier-poet with a nose that embarrasses him, in Francesca Zambello's attractive production, Alagna was wonderful—perhaps the best I've ever seen him.

Seattle Opera Presents Don Quichotte, Opens 2/26

One of literature's most memorable characters comes to life in Seattle Opera's premiere of Jules Massenet's Don Quichotte, opening on February 26, 2011, and running for eight performances through March 12.