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2024-03-21 10:00:57
On this day in 2008 soprano Angela Meade made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Elvira in Ernani
2024-01-24 07:29:00
Norfolk-based arts writer, Tony Cooper, enjoys a musical heritage tour to Leipzig, a relaxing and inviting city to visit awash with so much musical history.
[…] with her four ‘ladies-in-waiting’ identically dressed. Get the picture? Harbouring a dramatically, rich-sounding authoritative voice with a stage presence to match, Chevalier, who made her début at the Salzburg Festival in 2019, was a member of Komische Oper Berlin from 2012 to 2017 where I witnessed her in action for the first time delivering a resolute and driving performance of Cunegonde in Bernstein’s Candide. Other notable roles at Komische include the title-role in Handel’s Semele, Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte) and Tytania (A Midsummer Night’s Dream). The Bavarian-born baritone, Franz Xaver Schlecht, delivered a rich-textured performance of James Stewart, Earl of Moray with Icelandic tenor, Sven Hjörleifsson as James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell and English-born tenor, Rupert Charlesworth (Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley) greatly enhancing the production with truly rewarding performances while South Korean bass, Sejong Chang, cast as the Mary’s ‘lovable’ poet, David Riccio, turned up as a rock […]
2023-09-30 08:32:00
What is essential is that you have to be passionate about the work: Canadian baritone Étienne Dupuis, Don Carlo in the Royal Opera's revival of La Forza del Destino on his clutch of Verdi roles
[…] Last year, he had huge success as Rodrigue in the Metropolitan Opera's first production of Verdi's Don Carlos in the original French. Étienne appeared in the Ravel double bill of L’Heure Espagnole and L’Enfant et les Sortilèges at the Glyndebourne Festival in 2015. We caught him in 2019, in the title role of Mozart's Don Giovanni in Ivo van Hove's new production for the Paris Opera at the Palais Garnier with Nicole Car as Donna Elvira [see my review].Born in Montreal, Étienne completed his vocal studies at McGill University and as a member of l’Atelier Lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal. His European appearances included several roles at the Deutsche Oper Berlin where in 2015 he sang the title role in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin with soprano Nicole Car as Tatyana, and they subsequently married.Étienne Dupuis (Photo: Dario Acosta)Étienne's Covent Garden performances as Don Carlo in La Forza del Destino were his […]
2023-03-22 11:44:41
On this day in 1990 soprano Karita Mattila made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Donna Elvira in a new production of Don Giovanni.
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