Washington National Opera to Mount New Production of LA BOHEME, 11/1
(WASHINGTON, D.C.)-Washington National Opera (WNO) continues its 2014-2015 season with a new production of one of the most enduring classics in all of opera: Giacomo Puccini's La boheme, November 1-15 in the Kennedy Center Opera House. Updating the story to post-World War I Paris, this brand-new production by Jo Davies features original stage direction by Peter Kazaras, both in their WNO debuts. WNO Music Director Philippe Auguin leads the WNO Orchestra in interpreting some of opera's most famous melodies. A special November 14 performance features casting by current singers and alumni of WNO's Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program.
DON GIOVANNI, MADAMA BUTTERFLY and More Continue Cape Town Opera's 2013 Season
Cape Town Opera opened its 2013 season in April to rave reviews with Verdi's Otello, an international collaboration between Cape Town Opera and five major Australian and New Zealand opera companies, set to tour for five years. Next on the calendar were two short operas from South Africa and Sweden, entitled TWO:30, staged in Cape Town and in Stockholm to critical acclaim.
DON GIOVANNI, MADAMA BUTTERFLY and More Continue Cape Town Opera's 2013 Season
Cape Town Opera opened its 2013 season in April to rave reviews with Verdi's Otello, an international collaboration between Cape Town Opera and five major Australian and New Zealand opera companies, set to tour for five years. Next on the calendar were two short operas from South Africa and Sweden, entitled TWO:30, staged in Cape Town and in Stockholm to critical acclaim.
Robert Spano to Lead the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in NYX, 10/ 27 & 29 & 11/5
Music Director Robert Spano will lead the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in the U.S. premiere of Esa- Pekka Salonen's Nyx October 27 and 29, 2011, at 8:00 p.m. in Atlanta Symphony Hall at the Woodruff Arts Center. The program will also include Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy and Rachmaninov's The Bells. Soprano Tatiana Monogarova, tenor Sergey Romanovsky, bass Denis Sedov, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus will join the Orchestra for The Bells. Ms. Monogarova and Mr. Romanovsky will make their Atlanta Symphony debuts with these performances.
Robert Spano to Lead the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in NYX, 10/ 27 & 29 & 11/5
Music Director Robert Spano will lead the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in the U.S. premiere of Esa- Pekka Salonen's Nyx October 27 and 29, 2011, at 8:00 p.m. in Atlanta Symphony Hall at the Woodruff Arts Center. The program will also include Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy and Rachmaninov's The Bells. Soprano Tatiana Monogarova, tenor Sergey Romanovsky, bass Denis Sedov, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus will join the Orchestra for The Bells. Ms. Monogarova and Mr. Romanovsky will make their Atlanta Symphony debuts with these performances.
Photo Flash: Houston Grand Opera Presents QUEEN OF SPADES
One man's obsession with a lucky card trick turns the fates of three in Tchaikovsky's vibrant melodrama. Russian tenor Vladimir Galouzine returns to HGO as the tormented Herman, internationally renowned soprano Tatiana Monogarova makes her HGO debut as his beloved Lisa, and Vasily Ladyuk is the dashing Prince Yeletsky.
Houston Grand Opera to Present THE QUEEN OF SPADES, 4/16-5/1
A haunting tale of obsession, the internationally acclaimed Richard Jones production of
Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades opens Houston Grand Opera's (HGO) 2010 spring repertory.
Performances run April 16 - May 1, 2010 in the Brown Theater of the Wortham Theater Center.
Opera News calls Richard Jones's production of The Queen of Spades, originally created for
Welsh National Opera 'telling theatricality.' London's Observer wrote 'Once every few seasons, a
production gets pretty much everything right. This is one ... dramatically spine-chilling, visually spare and coherent; it was the kind of theatrical experience which changes the way you look at life.'
Houston Grand Opera to Present THE QUEEN OF SPADES, 4/16-5/1
A haunting tale of obsession, the internationally acclaimed Richard Jones production of
Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades opens Houston Grand Opera's (HGO) 2010 spring repertory.
Performances run April 16 - May 1, 2010 in the Brown Theater of the Wortham Theater Center.
Opera News calls Richard Jones's production of The Queen of Spades, originally created for
Welsh National Opera 'telling theatricality.' London's Observer wrote 'Once every few seasons, a
production gets pretty much everything right. This is one ... dramatically spine-chilling, visually spare and coherent; it was the kind of theatrical experience which changes the way you look at life.'
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