| 单词 | opera house |
| 例句 | Orchestras and opera houses thrived under the Nazis, supported by generous state funding. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z They could also buy their way into opera houses, most of which were nevertheless built, owned and controlled by rich patrons, chiefly for their own benefit and that of their friends and hangers-on. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z For a good part of the eighteenth and all of the nineteenth century, the populist, light, tuneful Italian style of opera was what most people went to an opera house for. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He nudged Rick forward and, together, the two of them ascended by elevator to the roof of the opera house. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The building in the trees with its ornate facade lit by floodlights might have been an opera house. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He subsequently moved to Venice, which soon became as obsessed with opera as it had traditionally been with carnivals, and the world’s first public opera house, San Cassiano, opened there in 1637. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “Oh, so Phil accompanied you back to the opera house. We didn’t know that; our communications broke down about then. We knew just that she had been killed; we naturally assumed by you.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now,” he declared, “is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera house.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z A vast promenade, mausoleum, acropolis, planetarium, library, opera house—everything marble and granite, everything profoundly clean. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z There were restaurants, advertised as cafés, and opera houses and polo grounds. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z And there is no opera house in the world more exclusive than Bayreuth. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The gallery is in a fancy part of Paris, close to the stock exchange and the opera house. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Kraków was not only a historic city but also a cosmopolitan and glittering cultural center, full of theaters and cafés, an opera house and nightclubs. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z A lot of people in our generation and beyond don’t believe that an icon — some opera house, one great design — can trickle down and solve the larger problem. Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee on the Chicago Architecture Biennial and how 'newness becomes a disease' 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Hrusa is not the first relatively lesser known option to become the opera house’s music director. Jakub Hrusa Set to Lead Royal Opera House 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z Appearing at a major opera house in one’s late 60s is highly unusual; making a debut at that age, breathtakingly so. Giuseppe Taddei, Latecomer to the Met, Dies at 93 2010-06-04T05:43:00Z They didn’t distract too much at the time from his “real” operatic work, and once that heady era was over, he smoothly returned to the opera house. Pavarotti Captured the Sublime and Vulgar Sides of Opera 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z "When relationships break apart, it is rarely just the fault of one person," he said in his office nestled within the marble-clad halls of the opera house. Vienna State Opera, ditched by star conductors, soldiers on 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z She may have been hindered by her voice, which, though almost universally praised for its purity, was not as immense as large opera houses can demand. Phyllis Curtin, American Soprano Who Championed New Music, Dies at 94 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z In "Einstein on the Beach," Philip Glass and Robert Wilson began with a blank operatic slate while embracing the technology available in an opera house. Monteverdi's 'L'Orfeo,' the first modern opera, has lessons for digital age 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z He said opera houses should be burned, but basically he was trying to turn the musical world into something more progressive than what it was. 2010-01-08T21:25:00Z “I think I have the experience to take over an opera house, of course,” he said with a characteristic mix of self-deprecation and quiet confidence, “but it doesn’t depend on me.” On Deck,The Met?s Pinch-Hitter 2011-04-21T13:39:32Z It could be a kind of laboratory, or maybe the fitting room of a celestial opera house. Review: In ‘Written on Skin,’ George Benjamin Creates an Unusual Love Triangle 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z Speakers from all over the country were invited to lecture on subjects ranging from Russian wooden churches, European opera houses and modernist poetry to the Soviet-Afghan war. Ian Constantinides 2013-05-28T16:45:12Z “Sweeney Todd” has been produced in opera houses around the world. Perfectionist. Genius. Icon. That was Stephen Sondheim 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Mr. McVicar’s production of “The Magic Flute” will also play the opera house Feb. 23 to March 11 with Anna Siminska in the taxing role of the Queen of the Night. Performance Guide 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z But the Kennedy Center Honors bring no such pressures, and Michaels said he intends to sit back in the special honorees box at the opera house and see what surprises the organizers have in store. Bette Midler, Berry Gordy among new Kennedy Center honorees 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z Her best-known British building was the Olympic aquatics centre, while other projects include the Guangzhou opera house in China and the BMW Central building in Leipzig. Design Museum sells Thames-side home to architect Zaha Hadid 2013-07-08T23:02:00Z Opera, singing and conducting at major opera houses around the world. Placido Domingo staying with Los Angeles Opera through 2019 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z I do not often blush while sitting in the darkness of an opera house. Review: A Stylishly Blood-and-Guts Tenor in the Met Opera’s ‘Werther’ 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Of course, the music was dark, rich and mysterious – it's an organ performed at an opera house! Farewell to “The Phantom of the Opera,” which welcomed outcasts 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z "Three-quarters of all opera houses are using reserves to support their work," Berry said. Hit "Butterfly" gets loving touch in vital ENO revival 2013-10-25T12:13:24Z It's famous for its traditional English-style hamper picnics on the beautifully manicured lawns and at tables on the exterior balconies of the opera house. Trip Tips: Mozart to Masekela, summer festivals for all tastes 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z In November, the state of Baden-Württemberg, of which Stuttgart is the capital, announced an initial budget estimate to renovate and extend the city’s opera house and build an interim theater. Budget Blowouts and Delays Blight Germany’s Major Arts Projects 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z The opera house is one of the few places left where audiences can regularly hear pure human voices unmediated by electronics. Arts & Leisure Preview: The Valhalla Machine 2010-09-17T16:10:00Z Many leading conductors have balanced work between opera houses and symphony orchestras, readily transferring techniques and styles between the two genres and repertories. Gustavo Dudamel Hasn’t Conducted Much Opera. That’s OK. 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z The pandemic hit during rehearsals for Frost’s adaptation of Forensic’s work at the opera house in Hanover, Germany. Forced Online, an Opera Festival Searches for Intimacy 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z Lewek said together with other mothers she was preparing a list of best practices to improve equity for pregnant artists and parents in opera houses. What Opera Singers Gained, and Lost, Performing While Pregnant 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z It’s always difficult from an audio recording to accurately assess a voice’s carrying power in the opera house. CD reviews: Hitting high notes in the opera canon 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Bychkov's trademark qualities are a long and supple sense of line – especially evident in his work in the opera house – and a controlled dynamic approach. Prom 34: BBCSO/Bychkov – review 2012-08-09T16:06:12Z State financing to the opera house was cut by 7 million euros in 2012, and no additional support is expected this year, La Scala said in January. Crisis forces Italy's La Scala to cut back on productions 2013-05-23T16:37:22Z “Once the commission contracts are complete,” Mr. Potter said, “we will be making presentations to leading American opera houses with an ongoing interest in new works.” An Opera About Little Rock Integration, With Libretto by Henry Louis Gates Jr. 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z At a traditional internal presentation of New Year’s wishes, Mr. Lissner gave a short speech to about 70 orchestra and technical staff members in an upper foyer of the opera house. Philippe Jordan, a Conductor Who Excels at Juggling Jobs 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z My agent says in 30 years he never heard this in an opera house.” The Great Tenor Hope (Just Ask Him) 2010-10-14T16:47:00Z Ms. Thompson, 52, said she plans to go back to the opera house as soon as there’s a deal. The Met Opera’s Musicians, Unpaid Since April, Are Struggling 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z Screen thesps are thus not required to operate at a high volume – making a performer such as Nicolas Cage something of a rarity, and loud acting – beyond the stage or opera house – a dying art. Clip joint: films that feature yelling 2013-03-28T10:00:09Z One of the program’s goals is to bring in people who could one day replace this opera house’s ever-graying audience of donors or subscribers. Lincoln Center Works to Attract a Younger Audience 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Contracts for the opera house’s unions expire on July 31, and the opening talks have been contentious. Met Opera Tax Filing Reveals Pay for Gelb and Angers Unions 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Yet it was impossible for Ukrainians to work in Western opera houses and not cross paths with singers from Moscow or St. Petersburg, she said. A Year Into War, Russian Artists Still Must Navigate a Tricky Path 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z This is especially true in ballet, where that shift tends to be particularly pronounced; movements that seem outsize in a studio barely register in a cavernous opera house. Dance Review: Miro Magloire and His New Chamber Ballet at City Center 2012-02-13T22:39:23Z When he later became a director of concert and then opera houses, he realized the purpose of his singing. Director of Salzburg Fest heads to La Scala 2013-06-05T22:54:08Z Mr. Gelb said he would move the students down from the highest reaches of the opera house. Metropolitan Opera Faces a Slide in Box-Office Revenues 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Along with nuts-and-bolts information about Met productions, Opera News, with a circulation of 100,000, features articles about singers and other opera houses, and includes reviews of recordings and performances from around the world. Metropolitan Opera Reverses Itself on Review Ban 2012-05-22T21:31:23Z Those questions remain worrying and unanswered; in the meantime, the opera house is presenting three “Live from Covent Garden” events performed in an empty house, two of which are pay-per-view. A Dance Theater of Harlem Classic With a Shot of Rhythm and Blues 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Even an iconic opera house like La Scala must create programming to build the audience of tomorrow. La Scala Woos a Younger Audience 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z This pushed the theater below 50th position in the world opera house rankings. Russia's Bolshoi Theatre set for grand reopening 2011-10-25T14:46:55Z In Warsaw, the Polish National Ballet is offering shelter to about 30 Ukrainian dancers in its opera house and the opportunity to join the ballet’s company class. Ukrainian Dancers Find Shelter Abroad as War Rages at Home 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Lincoln Center used to look and feel like a citadel of culture, with imposing concert halls and opera houses buttressed by travertine walls and columns. Critic?s Notebook: A Citadel of Culture Shows a Friendlier Face 2010-12-31T22:50:05Z As he spoke, workers fixed up the front of the opera house. The Met Prepares for Opening Night 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z I have not seen many full, fancy productions of the work in opera houses that match the creativity of this one. Mostly Mozart, Mostly Improved 2013-07-26T20:05:06Z Now, theaters and opera houses around Europe are scrambling to offer help, shelter or work. Ukrainian Dancers Find Shelter Abroad as War Rages at Home 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z He also pointed out that he had been at the Met for 40 years, lived in New York and had a reliable music staff at the opera house. Levine to Leave Boston Symphony 2011-03-02T23:29:59Z As Longborough proves, all you need is a conductor who knows his Wagner inside-out – well, alright, that and an opera house in your garden. Two conductors fight it out in the Wagner ring 2010-08-02T11:38:00Z There is little about the opera houses, the financial structure of patronage that has always been necessary to support this expensive art form, and very little about individual singers. A History of Opera by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker – review 2012-12-13T07:53:01Z Having artists at the opera house publicly question the quality of the product is unlikely to help ticket sales. Labor Struggles at Metropolitan Opera Have a Past 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z The jewellery I wear on stage in the opera house is not real, but the bling-bling I wear in concerts? Anna Netrebko: 'I can make Manon ... bad' 2010-06-17T21:10:00Z The opera house — all silvery twists and curves — is the aesthetic opposite of the squarish museum. Arts Playground Sprouts in China 2010-08-03T14:27:00Z So it will only be a high-tech rebel elite that is free, these clever rats running around the opera house. Julian Assange’s latest wake-up call 2013-04-30T17:42:00Z But until the mid-20th century, most began as opera house “répétiteurs”: coaches who teach singers their roles at the keyboard and play for rehearsals. Antonio Pappano, a Conductor of the Old School, Makes His Carnegie Debut 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z On a recent morning, the stage director Àlex Ollé was supervising a chorus rehearsal for Richard Wagner’s “The Flying Dutchman” in an upstairs room of the opera house here. From Street Theater to Wagner on the Opera Stage 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z And the better the resolution, the better for scrutinizing opera singers in the kind of detail unknown to spectators in the opera house. 2010-01-13T05:54:00Z On Monday, at an opera house in Barcelona, a string quartet played to an audience of 2,292 potted plants. Everything is fine and normal. Just ask the mannequin at the next table. 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Ms. Netrebko made the donation on Sunday in St. Petersburg, giving a check for a million rubles — roughly $18,500 — for the opera house in Donetsk. Donation to Ukrainian Opera House Puts Netrebko in a Political Spotlight 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Domingo was speaking at Madrid's opera house alongside one of the doctors who treated him. Domingo leaves hospital after clot 2013-07-15T09:38:44Z “I told Terry that if he would like, I would take some of his ashes to opera houses that I visited in the future,” Mr. Kaiser wrote. Opera Lover Apologizes for Scattering Ashes and Silencing the Met 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z As important, it establishes the opera house and its grounds as part of the public realm — something that belongs to everyone, not just elite opera fans. Architecture Review: Chinese Gem That Elevates Its Setting 2011-07-05T21:43:47Z Mr. de Caluwe, who also plans to reduce the number of productions at the opera house and cut an annual Baroque opera staging unless circumstances change, said he was still fighting to maintain his budget. Dance Leaders Deplore Cuts in Belgium 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z People who came to experience top-notch singers at the best opera house in the world. Opera Lover Apologizes for Scattering Ashes and Silencing the Met 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Now that opera houses are back in business, it’s rare for two in-demand singers to be in the same place, but Perez said they hope to make it happen before September. For soprano Ailyn Perez, new opera roles and new marriage 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z But Mr. Homoki went on to note that the opera house’s “decisive condemnation” of Mr. Putin and his actions was “not compatible with Anna Netrebko’s public position.” Valery Gergiev, a Putin Ally, Fired as Chief Conductor in Munich 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z “If talks had dragged on any longer it may have been impossible to prepare the opera house for a September opening.” The Fate of the Met Opera’s Fall Season Lies in Its Orchestra Pit 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z As Miss Williams, who died on Sunday at 92, well knew, it was a beacon that lighted the way to American opera houses for other black women, Miss Anderson included. Camilla Williams, Opera Singer, Dies at 92 2012-02-02T22:51:38Z It’s a triumphant return to the opera house where Ms. Goerke trained as an insecure young artist in the 1990s. A Soprano Survived a Vocal Crisis. The Met Found Its Brünnhilde. 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Instead she chooses to favour a cute little opera house. Ceclia Bartoli: the limitations of being a mezzo 2010-12-23T22:00:04Z “I thought he kind of hit the nail on the head, as a composer who could write pieces for today that audiences in large opera houses would take up,” Mr. Gockley said. David Gockley, Opera Impresario, Hangs Up His Cloak 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z The mezzo roles in the opera house are wonderful in many ways, but on their own they are just not musically satisfying. Janet Baker: A life in music 2012-07-13T21:54:02Z But even if City Ballet agreed to coexist with what many consider a competitor, such a move would only transfer the vacancy from the Koch Theater to the opera house. With City Opera Leaving, Koch Theater Has a ?Vacancy? Sign 2011-07-12T12:00:00Z He moved to the opera 11 years ago at a time of artistic and financial disarray and succeeded in stabilizing — and popularizing — what has long been seen as one of the world's top opera houses. Opera official to head troubled BBC 2012-11-22T23:38:04Z There was no opera house - and Zadek says that in British-ruled Palestine, singing in German, the language of much of the world's greatest operas, was prohibited. Renowned opera singer in Vienna going strong at 95 2012-12-20T12:46:04Z The Metropolitan Opera gave the premiere of “Vanessa” in 1958 and commissioned his “Antony and Cleopatra” to open the new opera house in 1966. Two Composers, Honored Silently 2011-07-30T04:00:25Z In 1987, she was named founding director of a new opera house to be built with a $50 million grant from the Japanese government. Magda Saleh, Influential Egyptian Ballerina, Is Dead at 79 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z The allegations at one of the world’s most prestigious opera houses come amid widening sexual misconduct scandals in the fields of entertainment, politics and journalism. New York Met opera suspends conductor on sexual misconduct allegations 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z Beginning in 1935 there were a number of failed attempts at downtown projects that would include, in various configurations, an opera house, sports arena, concert hall, museum and convention center. How the Music Center broke new ground for major arts institutions 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z Paid attendance in the opera house has fallen to 61 percent of capacity, down from 73 percent. Pandemic Woes Lead Met Opera to Tap Endowment and Embrace New Work 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z Piotr Beczala will sing that line at the Met, as will tenors at the vast majority of other opera houses in the world when they put on “Lohengrin,” a repertory staple for over 170 years. Wagner’s ‘Lohengrin’ Uses the Word ‘Führer.’ Keep It There. 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z The "Project Runway" alum used the Russian opera as the inspiration for his fall runway show, using a book of Russian opera houses as reference. More coincidence than conspiracy at fashion week 2013-02-10T18:35:10Z Set within the grounds of a country house in the South Downs it is recognised globally as one of the great opera houses. Win tickets to Glyndebourne and a champagne picnic for two 2013-05-10T12:30:00Z In the ensuing years, that view has led to other opera houses and other conductors pushing the orchestra to more polished performances at the expense of great singing. Behind the Scenes of ‘Tosca,’ the Messiest Production in Met History 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z It is holding talks around the city about the work and turning the lens on its own checkered racial past with an exhibition at the opera house. The Complex History and Uneasy Present of ‘Porgy and Bess’ 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z The board of the foundation has executive power and control over the opera house’s leadership, including the authority to both hire and dismiss the general manager. Deals by the Incoming La Scala Chief Cause a Stir 2014-04-16T21:38:56Z This is the place my wife, Pilar Solís-Beaumont, a lawyer and historian, and I escape to for weekends away from Madrid, where I serve as president of the Teatro Real opera house. A Noble Spanish Family Restores Its Ancestral Home 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z And he was jumping into the opera house with his customary gusto. Gustavo Dudamel’s Favorite Part of ‘Otello’ is a Quiet Prayer 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z The government is expected to soon announce cuts in spending on culture, including subsidies to La Scala and other opera houses in Italy. ArtsBeat: At La Scala, Budget-Cut Protests, Inside and Out 2010-12-07T22:30:00Z On this pile Mr. Christie built his opera house, attaching it directly to the family home. George Christie Dies at 79; Steward of His Family’s Glyndebourne Legacy 2014-05-13T04:28:58Z It’s no surprise, given the adroitness of his balance between exuberance and restraint, that he was asked to design a relief for the exterior of Charles Garnier’s opera house in Paris. Music Review: Susan Graham in a Concert Inspired by Carpeaux Sculptures 2014-04-29T20:09:02Z Too few dancers are using their eyes to address the various corners of the opera house; too many are aiming performances straight out as if at the rehearsal mirror. 4 Buzzy ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Debuts, 1 Fainthearted Production 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Unions are protesting an emergency government decree on the financing and management of the nation's 14 state-supported opera houses that they say would cut benefits and sideline bargaining mechanisms. Italian unions call opera house strike 2010-05-02T19:46:00Z In his first performance since cancer surgery, Placido Domingo will portray Verdi's hero "Simon Boccanegra," opening Friday night at Milan's famed La Scala opera house. Domingo back to work after cancer surgery 2010-04-16T11:06:00Z Historically, European opera houses were the traditional training grounds for young conductors of all kinds. Gustavo Dudamel Hasn’t Conducted Much Opera. That’s OK. 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z A lifetime achievement award was given to George Christie, former chief executive of the British opera house Glyndebourne. Frankfurt, Kaufmann, Stemme top opera honors 2013-04-22T21:52:58Z Mr. Soltesz, who was born in 1949 in Hungary, conducted at major opera houses across Europe over the past four decades. Austrian Conductor Dies After Collapsing Onstage in Munich 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z As in more traditional opera houses, there are English supertitles for help in understanding the Italian words. Review: 'Pulcinella Vendicato' is puppet opera at its magical best 2010-04-27T00:45:00Z Mehta’s storied six-decade career also saw him lead the philharmonic orchestras of New York and Los Angeles and the main opera houses of Munich and Florence. Young maestro takes baton as Israel Philharmonic's Zubin Mehta ends 50-year tenure 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Sometimes, well-known tourist sights don’t live up to the hype, but the opera house was jaw-dropping. This family of four braved a 15-hour flight for an unforgettable Australian trip. 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z The unusually eventful post-season at the Metropolitan Opera continued on Wednesday morning when some administrative offices inside the opera house were vandalized with spray paint, the police and the company said. Metropolitan Opera Offices Vandalized, Police and Company Say 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Critics have written beseechingly about the need to build a real opera house in Boston. Review: Boston Lyric Opera’s ‘In the Penal Colony,’ a Surreal Exploration of Injustice 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Europe’s top opera houses all wanted to book her, journalists wanted to interview her, congratulations flooded in from friends and family. A ‘One-in-a-Million Voice’ Arrives at the Met Opera 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z And under Mr. Levine the orchestra, which plays a lot of Wagner and Mozart in the opera house, infused Brahms’s symphonic sound with both Wagnerian richness and Mozartean clarity. Review: The Met Orchestra’s Season Concludes Under James Levine’s Soaring Baton 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z But, he added, “in Germany every little city has an opera house, and people should go to these.” 2010-01-13T05:54:00Z I said, “Look, I’ve sung in this beautiful opera house more than 40 years. Allow me to enjoy myself now!” A Third of the Three Tenors, José Carreras Exits on His Terms 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z It’s because there’s no comfortable, exciting space at the opera house to sit down, chat, have unexpected run-ins. The Met Opera Is Struggling. How Can It Fill Those Empty Seats? 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z For opera companies the situation is now much the same: increasingly, the only way to fund a new show is to co-produce it with an opera house abroad. Arts in Britain Weather a Financial Storm 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z It was a voice powerfully affecting in the quiet close-ups possible in the movies, but it wouldn’t register in the grandeur of an opera house. Charles Wuorinen Adapts ‘Brokeback Mountain’ as Opera 2014-01-24T19:26:19Z "His passing in the fullness of his career hurts," the La Scala opera house wrote in its own announcement of the tenor's death. Italian tenor Salvatore Licitra dies in Sicily 2011-09-05T18:21:10Z “It was a dream come true to be in her opera house, to perform her ballets and to be with her,” Ms. McClintock said in an interview. Marta Becket, Dancer in the Desert, Dies at 92 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z Arguably the world’s most famous opera will appear at one of the world’s most famous opera houses this month, when a new production of “Carmen” opens at the Bolshoi Theater. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z The unions say the emergency measures will reduce their salaries and benefits, weaken their bargaining power, and block the hiring of seasonal workers needed by the opera houses. La Scala strike cancels Domingo's `Boccanegra' 2010-05-04T15:00:00Z To his audience at the opera house, he described film-making as a “pilgrimage”. In conversation with Werner Herzog: 'Facts do not constitute truth' 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z Suddenly, an opera house seems as likely a place as any to see a musical rendition of the life of one of the originators of bebop. ‘Charlie Parker’s Yardbird’ at Seattle Opera offers an unlikely mash-up of jazz and opera. How well does it work? 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Landing a spot in a young-artist program at a major opera house is a ticket to a big career for emerging singers. Assaults in dressing rooms. Groping during lessons. Classical musicians reveal a profession rife with harassment. 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z As he grew, he studied the cello and helped out at the opera house as a production assistant, learning how a company operates behind the scenes. Stefan Herheim’s Glittering Collisions Have Changed Opera 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z It is a pleasant, quiet, conservative town that would be as obscure as Leamington Spa were it not for the fact that in the 1870s Richard Wagner decided to build an opera house there. A-Z of Wagner: B is for Bayreuth 2013-01-30T16:14:10Z With this production, Kosky has turned his former opera house into an inviting place to perch for an evening. Review: ‘La Cage aux Folles’ Brightens Up Berlin 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z It has been sad watching opera houses slowly kill opera over the past 20 years by focusing too much on the "concepts." Behind the Scenes of ‘Tosca,’ the Messiest Production in Met History 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z He built an opera house there, designed to host his own expansive works. Israeli orchestra set to play at Wagner festival 2010-10-05T15:23:00Z Other major opera houses and Broadway theaters hold Sunday performances, and Mr. Gelb said that the Met had seen its Friday and Saturday productions outsell weeknights in recent years as audience habits have changed. The Met Considers Naming Rights, and Other Ways Forward 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Over the 20 years they have been running their unsubsidised summer opera festival, the theatre has grown from barn to a respectable impression of an opera house. Bringing Wagner to Gloucestershire 2010-07-22T22:06:00Z Some of the minor flaws in the staging probably derive from the challenge of presenting a musical on an expansive opera house stage. Review: ‘Carousel,’ a Broadway Turn at Lyric Opera of Chicago 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z “She’s one of the two women I’ve ever known in our field who have nothing but friends,” said Matthew Epstein, a veteran artist manager and opera house administrator. Sarah Billinghurst on Her Tenure at the Met 2014-05-09T21:50:45Z A performance of "Don Quixote" at Rome's opera house was canceled Friday, with tickets being reimbursed at the ticket office. Italian unions call opera house strike 2010-05-02T19:46:00Z Mr. Stein also had cold words for his experience at the opera house. Director Says He Left Met Production in Visa Spat 2010-09-03T22:21:00Z And violence that might seem humdrum at the multiplex might seem shocking in a live theater, to say nothing of an opera house. Shock Me if You Can 2012-09-14T22:36:46Z “They talked to me about Europe, about big cities, about a career, about opera houses like Paris and London. I started to dream about this. I got this desire to leave.” Ekaterina Bakanova, an Opera Sensation Also Touched by Luck 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z The imagery suggests the ramshackle elements of an opera house and its stage. Christine Goerke as Brünnhilde in Wagner’s ‘Die Walküre’ 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z He started as a pianist and worked his way up through European opera houses as a coach and conductor: a time-honored path that has come to seem a bit old-fashioned. Fabio Luisi Is to Be Met Opera?s Principal Guest Conductor 2010-04-27T21:07:00Z But, Mr. Messina said, he considers himself lucky: As a full-time employee of a major opera house with state funding, he is still receiving a salary. In Italy, ‘Io Resto a Casa,’ but Still I Dance 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z She said it helped that both of their careers were settled when they married in 2010, allowing them to perform in the same opera houses, if not necessarily in the same operas. Villain and heroine: The real-life husband and wife onstage in 'Tales of Hoffmann' 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Sharon understands that the Metropolitan Opera, say, has pressures he doesn’t, but he still intends the Industry’s productions to be a kind of dare to traditional opera houses. Opera’s Disrupter in Residence, Heading to Bayreuth 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z So he negotiated a 99-year lease with the university, with the idea that the Met would build the opera house. Rockefeller Center’s Art Deco Marvel: A Virtual Tour 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z With many opera houses and concert halls still closed by the coronavirus pandemic for months to come, the musical action has moved online. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in November 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Yet it is entirely fair to expect more from a music director at America’s most prominent opera house. Review: The Met Orchestra’s Season Concludes Under James Levine’s Soaring Baton 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z The Met’s technology has fallen behind European opera houses, where many of the directors bringing new productions to New York are used to computerized controls that produce precise results for increasingly spectacular shows. Metropolitan Opera Embarks on $60 Million Renovation 2012-12-05T23:10:28Z Future productions at the opera house include the Moscow Ballet’s “Great Russian Nutcracker,” and the Broadway hit “Mary Poppins.” In Transit Blog: Opera House Lights Shine Again in St. Louis 2011-10-20T19:52:53Z Today an estimated 8.5 million listeners tune in for performances from the theater that is widely considered one of the best opera houses in the world. Margaret Juntwait, host of the Metropolitan Opera’s Saturday matinee radio broadcasts, dies at 58 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Over a month ago, while she was watching Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly,” a Met employee came into the opera house to tell her that she needed to leave. Never Missing a Curtain This Season, the Met Opera Takes a Final Bow 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z Many major sites are nearby, including the Louvre, the Tuileries Gardens and the inspiration for the hotel’s sumptuous design, the Palais Garnier, the historic opera house. | Check In, Check Out : Hotel Review: Hotel Ath?n?e in Paris 2011-09-30T18:55:26Z Space was found in the opera house; and in January the students and staff moved en masse on a special tram ride, shown on the evening news. The Finnish National Ballet at 100 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z I have attended many "Klinghoffer" performances, including the Brussels premiere in 1991, when the fear was not from Jewish protesters but Palestinian terrorists, and metal detectors made their first appearance at a European opera house. Met Opera's 'Death of Klinghoffer' is a compassionate feat 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z In a rebuke of Nazi oppression, “Fidelio” became the opera of choice to reopen Germany and Austria’s opera houses. Beethoven’s 200-Year-Old ‘Fidelio’ Enters Today’s Prisons 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Act II: The opera house The cleaners: Look at all these bloody flowers / Those posh blokes / Don't half like Emilia Marty. Digested opera: The Makropulos Case 2010-10-01T15:08:00Z “There was an aura and allure that went with clutching a bouquet of flowers, and something about that has remained at the opera house.” The Rules and Hazards of Presenting Flowers in Ballet 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Even the settings of the Opéra works were mostly invented: The first Paris opera house Degas came to know was on the rue Le Peletier. Review | Degas had a gift for conveying the truth — even when he was making it all up 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z But whatever the Today programme thinks, it is happening all over the country and not just in our concert halls and opera houses. The Today programme is wrong: great art happens beyond theatres 2012-11-20T17:20:36Z The Milan opera house on Friday announced the program for the 2011-2012 season that includes 13 operas - seven of those new productions - and seven ballets, two of which will be new productions. La Scala to open season with "Don Giovanni" 2011-04-15T12:46:09Z The Met’s projects outside Lincoln Center are the latest in a long line of efforts to find smaller spaces to perform intimate works that would get lost in its mammoth 3,800-seat opera house. The Met Is Creating New Operas (Including Its First by Women) 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z On the weekend of May 9, opera houses across Europe will celebrate European Opera Days, opening their doors with free concerts aiming to attract non-traditional opera audiences. What's On This Week Around The World 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z The state regulations, which do not cover the opera house, already limit the use of artwork as collateral. Bill to Stop Museums From Certain Art Sales May Die 2010-08-10T22:24:00Z In Britain, the Royal Ballet is relatively diverse, with nearly 100 dancers of 21 different nationalities, the opera house press office said. London's Ballet Black wants to take success abroad 2010-03-29T15:47:00Z Since the beginning of the 2021-22 season, it has required employees and audience members to be fully vaccinated and to wear masks inside the opera house. Scrambling but Undaunted, the Met Opera Sings Through Omicron 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z The British press interpreted this as simply buying the opera house in Covent Garden. An Appreciation: Lorin Maazel conducted himself inimitably 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z We found the bathroom a half-hour later, in the largest opera house in Italy. A Honeymoon Through Italy 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z He has been defying the gravity of age, and continuing to command the stages of the world’s leading opera houses, as a result of one of the more remarkable transformations in opera history. Plácido Domingo Defies the Gravity of Age 2014-03-07T15:00:03Z Despite his work at major American opera houses, Heggie insists that much of what inspires him today is happening at smaller opera companies. Opera is here to stay, says 'Dead Man Walking' composer Jake Heggie 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Later, he studied opera with a teacher who helped him compile a list of operatic roles to learn and opera houses where he wished to sing. Johan Botha, acclaimed operatic tenor, dies at 51 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The famed Milanese opera house will celebrate the dual bicentennial of the births of Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner, with seven Verdi productions and six by Wagner - including the entire "Ring" cycle. La Scala to open 2012-13 season with 'Lohengrin' 2012-04-20T13:11:09Z So we start with panoramic shots of the harbour bridge and the opera house before taking a helicopter ride to look for great white sharks off Bondi beach. Greatest Cities of the World and Welcome to Lagos 2010-04-30T07:00:00Z Much of the audience in the opera house on a Domingo night came not because the company was performing Verdi or Wagner, but because Domingo was singing Otello or Siegmund. Perspective | Plácido Domingo’s reputation as a performer enabled the opera world to ignore his predatory behavior 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Now it distributes performances from some 11 European opera houses. 2010-01-13T05:54:00Z I thought Jaume might start the tour with some information about the history of the opera house or its architecture, but he leads us instead to the entrance of a nearby bank. City tours for the socially conscious: A glimpse into the life of Barcelona’s homeless 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z The new performance space — the Taube Atrium Theater — is on the fourth floor of the Veterans Building, which was built as a twin of the opera house and sits across a formal courtyard from it. San Francisco Joins the Growing World of Small Operas 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z The allegations at one of the world’s most prestigious opera houses come amid widening sexual misconduct scandals in the fields of entertainment, politics and journalism. New York Met opera suspends conductor on sexual misconduct allegations 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z “Of course I was hoping,” she recalled in a recent interview at the opera house, “but I never thought it would happen.” A ‘One-in-a-Million Voice’ Arrives at the Met Opera 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z The stagehands of old opera houses in towns like Galveston and Lexington would boast that Harry Houdini had performed there. John Lithgow, on Barnstorming His Way to Broadway 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z “She could have signed up with a major vocal management immediately and start being represented and getting bookings at major opera houses,” he said. Pretty Yende Unmasks a Promising Opera Career 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z Among other things, Carpeaux would create “The Dance,” a large and exuberant sculptural group for the facade of the city’s new opera house, designed by his friend Charles Garnier. Art Review: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, a French Artist of Multiple Passions 2014-03-27T22:29:43Z The opera house has not announced a successor. Margaret Juntwait, host of the Metropolitan Opera’s Saturday matinee radio broadcasts, dies at 58 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Italy's recession has strained the finances at the country's most famous opera house, whose managers made several appeals to sponsors ahead of the opening. Barenboim's 'Fidelio' wows La Scala opera buffs at season opener 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z When I watch this with an experienced prima ballerina and male dancers in a major opera house, I enjoy the choreography’s glory while seldom concerned with its logistics. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater’s Studio Company Displays Growth 2014-02-09T22:39:56Z Forced to go it alone, Field expressed fears he'd infected her, and that, moreover, it might be one of those bugs so contagious the whole opera house would shortly be awash in vomit. Baftas 2013: 10 key talking points 2013-02-11T00:06:44Z But this year things stopped back in mid-March, when the coronavirus pandemic shuttered concert halls and opera houses worldwide. For a Music Critic, a Vacation That’s All Too Quiet 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z He was a frequent guest at opera houses throughout the world, including The Royal Opera in London and the Vienna State Opera. Italian opera singer Cesare Siepi dies at 87 2010-07-06T19:35:00Z Argentina's historic Teatro Colon opera house is reopening as the star of the country's bicentennial celebrations. Argentine opera house shines anew for bicentennial 2010-05-24T21:11:00Z That's an unwanted scenario that plays out nightly in opera houses around the world in this distracted age of cellphones. Suzan Hanson brings immediacy, authenticity to Long Beach Opera's 'La Voix Humaine' 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z Fortunately for the company, the Wuppertal theatre wants to continue its support, providing free use of the town's opera house. Pina Bausch for ever 2010-08-09T20:31:00Z The section was conceived as a compendium of witty, incisive commentary on the best of New York City’s cultural offerings—what’s going on in jazz clubs, cinemas, museums, opera houses, and Broadway theatres. The New, Improved Goings On About Town 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Bombed concert halls and opera houses in formerly Nazi territories were potent symbols of destruction and the necessity of rebuilding, but also enabled the focus to shift from Nazi atrocities to German suffering. When Classical Music Was an Alibi 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Gergiev accomplished all that and much more, including building a concert hall for the Mariinsky Orchestra and a second opera house. Valery Gergiev wants to make music, but the West brings up Putin 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Loft operas and experimental companies are springing up everywhere to present vital creative work that isn’t always being done in conventional opera houses. Perspective | In opera, small is the new grand: The revamped In Series shows the way 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z They discussed their unusual lifestyle during an interview last week at the opera house. Young, married and operatic 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Saturday's finale included the live performance, beautifully-filmed interviews with individual musicians and various pieces of artwork projected in and outside the opera house. Video | YouTube Symphony Orchestra live grand finale performance 2011-03-21T18:22:07Z The opera house also appears to be grappling with some financial pressures. Gustavo Dudamel, Star Maestro, to Resign From Paris Opera 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Earth to opera houses: Nobody goes to the opera for the PRODUCTIONS. Behind the Scenes of ‘Tosca,’ the Messiest Production in Met History 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Then there are supertitles in the opera house. Critic?s Notebook: How Opera Challenges Translators 2010-12-24T21:45:45Z After years spent building spectacular, state-of-the art opera houses in major metropolises and unheralded backwaters, China is experiencing a boom in Western-style grand opera production, opera education and original opera creation. East Is East, and West Is West, but the Twain Are Now Meeting in Opera 2010-12-31T23:22:09Z Rousing stuff at a political rally, perhaps, but not in an opera house. The Operas ‘Facing Goya’ and ‘Katya Kabanova,’ at Spoleto 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z That’s a catchier selling point than my former impression — the Australian city without a famous opera house — and made it an appealing spot to try a frugal weekend. Frugal Traveler Blog: A $100 Weekend in Melbourne 2012-04-18T14:31:05Z Ms. Netrebko has faced a wave of cancellations at leading opera houses. Anna Netrebko, Shunned in Much of the West, to Sing in Monte Carlo 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Perhaps opera houses need to ask themselves how much they are feeding the beast. Debate: have modern opera singers got the wrong attitude? 2013-03-16T18:00:02Z Though some of his up-and-out acting is better for an opera house than for a cinema close-up, the suspense with which he delayed Romeo’s first kiss on Juliet’s lips was sensational. Dance Review: Royal Ballet?s ?Romeo and Juliet? Live in New York Theaters 2012-03-25T22:09:28Z Giordano’s opera will be showing at Milan’s opera house from Dec. 10 through Jan. 5. Petals and confetti shower stage at La Scala opening 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z He said he would love to see the initiative spread to other opera houses around the world, as was the intention of the couple who conceived it. An Opera House Gives Contemporary Art a Major Role 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z "But from a major, international and publicly funded opera house, you're entitled to hope for more than that." What to say about ... the Royal Opera's Anna Nicole 2011-02-21T14:11:26Z It is rare for opera houses to expect the kind of commitment Mr. Levine made to the Met in his early years, when he seemed to conduct nonstop, eventually leading more than 2,500 performances. Yannick Nézet-Séguin to Succeed James Levine as Met Opera’s Music Director 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z And don’t worry, you’re bound to pass a certain opera house along the way. 36 Hours in Sydney 2014-01-16T17:42:54Z An air of exclusivity wafted over both places as new concert halls and opera houses were built and offerings became more lavish. Why does L.A. need its own summer classical music festival? For answers, look 6,000 miles away 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z The Italian capital's opera house says it is considering taking legal action. Luisi's Met role irks Rome 2011-09-11T19:46:03Z But “Blue” requires more than the immersive volume of an orchestra or the grand scale of an opera house. ‘Blue’ is the opera on police violence that America needs to see, but can’t 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, we can't do the 'Flying Dutchman' because of turbulences at the opera house. A new temple to Wagner on the Danube, not Rhine 2011-06-23T13:58:45Z But in his youth he was given to politically combative music-theater of a kind so brutal that it caused nights of grinding awkwardness in concert halls and opera houses. Peter Maxwell Davies?s New Opera, ?Kommilitonen!? 2011-11-12T22:15:07Z For those in the opera house the onstage drama was more than enough. Theatrical Nuance on a Grand Scale 2011-03-25T14:26:57Z I realised that if you didn't have a recording on the market, then opera houses weren't that keen on you. Sarah Connolly: from triumph to tragedy 2013-06-21T12:01:00Z Newspaper critics, he said, should not write in “a person and hateful way,” especially when theaters and opera houses were still trying to tempt audiences back after pandemic shutdowns and interruptions. He Smeared Feces on a Critic, and Lost a Job. Now, He Wants to be Heard. 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z From 15 June, cinemas and theatres reopen, and the Fenice opera house is planning a spectacular musical installation, whose details are still secret. 'It's an exciting beginning': Venice opens to tourists 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z In the immediate shock of Russia’s invasion, opera houses and concert halls had a clearer path. A Year Into War, Russian Artists Still Must Navigate a Tricky Path 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z It is one reason that Germany has more opera houses than anywhere else in the world: 78, according to the German Theater Association. Budget Blowouts and Delays Blight Germany’s Major Arts Projects 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Some opera houses have for me become sacred spaces, most notably the Theatre Royal in Wexford in Ireland where three operas are performed, as part of the Wexford festival opera, each October. Six novelists on their favourite second artform 2013-04-27T07:00:18Z Ticket sales at museums account for a smaller percentage of total income than they do at opera houses or dance companies, yet already the carnage is mounting. The Merry-Go-Round Stopped. What Sort of Art Will Emerge? 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z But he's already a star at the world's biggest opera house. Tenor Brownlee shows race no hurdle to his career 2010-04-30T10:39:00Z And the piece’s concept relied on the nature of an opera house like Frankfurt’s: a repository of the costumes, sets and institutional expertise of a centuries-long history. What Happens When Fluxus Enters the Concert Hall? 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z You seem very interested in opéra comique and operetta, traditions of music theater that many big opera houses shy away from. It’s ‘Carmen.’ But Not Like You’ve Ever Seen It. 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z Now she fills the opera house more easily, with a tone that’s simultaneously softer and stronger, less angled and more rounded. Review: A Soprano Showdown, and a Winner 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z Milan’s opera house has a busy winter season in store as two major productions appear on its stage. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z He is due to appear at the Salzburg festival and at the Verona opera house in August. Domingo treated for blood clot 2013-07-10T08:10:10Z Snohetta is best known for designing the Norwegian capital’s iconic opera house and the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York. Plans for U.F.O.-Like Home in Norway Are Rejected 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z With its lush and witty score, “Candide” has become a favorite of opera houses and conservatories, where the emphasis is on the singing. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Stripped of Illusions, but Still Glittering and Gay 2014-01-23T17:10:33Z But the opera house is in desperate need of workers to ready its complex operations if it is to reopen in less than three months. Met Opera Strikes Deal With Stagehands Over Pandemic Pay 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z The original version of the opera is getting its first production at the opera house since then, conducted by the company’s new chief conductor, Riccardo Chailly. Concerts and Dance Tuned to the Season: Global Arts Guide 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z "I'm talking to some opera houses about doing something in 2022," he complains. In a tumultuous world, conductor-composer Esa-Pekka Salonen is focusing more on the present 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z Turning the property into an arts center with an opera house seemed like a fine idea to Mr. Gascoigne and his wife, Christina. A Key to Opera’s Future May Lie in England’s Past 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z In recent years, many Italian opera houses have been better known for financial, managerial and labor tumult than for their way with bel canto or verismo. Turin Opera’s Music Director Threatens to Leave 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z He plays a central role in one of the world’s leading opera houses, has the devotion of many major singers and directs one of the top orchestras around. Levine to Leave Boston Symphony 2011-03-02T23:29:59Z Where are the British directors and the British opera houses?' Fox pop: English Touring Opera gives Roald Dahl back to the kids 2011-02-17T22:26:00Z And he noted, “I’m shaping my own opera house, which is Zurich.” Fabio Luisi Can’t Cover for James Levine in Next Met Season 2012-10-15T22:28:50Z Beard ended up marrying an aristocrat – something of a scandal – and running the Covent Garden opera house. The original three tenors 2010-10-21T21:25:00Z In this rolling Cotswolds countryside, on a narrow road northwest of Oxford, Martin and Lizzie Graham have built a modest opera house in their front garden. Review: ‘Tristan und Isolde’ Brings Thunder to the Longborough Festival 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z The new opera house was modeled on its European counterparts. ‘The Gilded Age’: What Is Fact and What Is Fiction? 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z When the plans were announced it sounded like a dubious idea, a tawdry way for a major opera house to look hip. Opera Review: ?Anna Nicole? Reimagined at Covent Garden 2011-02-18T04:59:19Z Eun Sun Kim has just begun her tenure at the San Francisco Opera, becoming the first woman to serve as music director of a major American opera house. Top Orchestras Have No Female Conductors. Is Change Coming? 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Currently, sets — shared with other opera houses — are shipped in and stored in multiple places before the final move to McCaw Hall. Seattle Opera has big plans for its new headquarters at Seattle Center 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z But in the end the construction of a new opera house, the Opéra Bastille, took priority over a large concert hall, and the decision to move ahead with the Philharmonie was made only in 2006. Philharmonie de Paris Prepares to Open Amid Controversy 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Or do we dare risk bringing the scales of justice into the opera house, with Mozart being the standard to which we are all asked to live up to? On the Met's James Levine, and the age-old debate of separating the art from the artist 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z On the other hand, any attempts to bring the opera house into Segerstrom proved downright peculiar. Asian inspiration as L.A. Philharmonic tackles 'Pelléas'; Pacific Symphony 'Turandot' 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Duende, which should have permeated the opera house, was all too hard to come by. Review: ‘Ainadamar’ Turns Lorca Into Death-Haunted Opera 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z Another factor that he cited is that the Met’s audience leans older, meaning they may be more reluctant to return to the 3,800-seat opera house. Met Opera Seeks Pay Cuts in Exchange for Pandemic Paychecks 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z Hector added, “Before I go can I have a look at your opera house?” George Christie, heir to Glyndebourne opera, dies at 79 There's newly commissioned dance at the city's opera house and, across town, builders are finishing off an £170m football stadium for next year's European Championship. Shakespeare: Stratford. London. Gda?sk? 2011-04-04T20:46:01Z Her days as a brave, and successful, last-minute fill-in are giving way to invitations to anchor new productions at leading opera houses. The Soprano Sonya Yoncheva Is Poised for Stardom 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z This was as dramatically visceral an experience of Berg’s masterpiece, completed in 1922, as you will have in any opera house. Music Review: ‘Wozzeck,’ by Philharmonia Orchestra, at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-11-20T23:07:31Z Putting together an opera on the Bowl’s limited rehearsal schedule for a single performance means a fraction of the preparation time that a production gets in an opera house. Puccini extreme: Dudamel's gloriously pessimistic 'Tosca' an indictment on the appeal of fascism 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z His father was the director of the local opera house and a former performer who later turned his hand to calligraphy. Shen Wei Revives ‘Map,’ a Work from 2005 2014-04-11T21:47:13Z News reports said stipends, which contribute between 10 and 20 percent to the total salary for the nations 5,500 opera house workers would be cut by 50 percent. Italian unions call opera house strike 2010-05-02T19:46:00Z And by the 1980s, the Bastille was a working-class area; this new opera house was conceived with a broadened public in mind. Does Paris Still Have the Ugliest Opera House in Europe? 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z This set focuses on Fleming’s imperial phase, which lasted from the mid-90s to the late aughts, and wraps her singing in the faintly present resonance of the opera house’s acoustics. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z That might seem like a no-brainer - Italian opera in Italy's most famous opera house. Conductor Chailly: Appeasing La Scala's 'gods' with Italian opera 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z They slammed the brakes on collaborations with Russia’s storied opera houses, including the Bolshoi in Moscow and the Mariinsky in St. Petersburg. A Year Into War, Russian Artists Still Must Navigate a Tricky Path 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Two U.S. opera houses immediately canceled planned appearances. Plácido Domingo to perform for first time since accusations 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z When the Met’s new rules take effect Jan. 17, people eligible for booster shots will be required to have them to enter the opera house. Met Opera to Mandate Booster Shots for Staff and Audiences 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Mr. Gelb said that audience members would be able to exchange their tickets, get refunds or donate the money to the opera house. For Those With ‘Hamilton’ Tickets, a Storm of Disappointment 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z The conflict, which threatens to silence the Met before its new season gets underway next month, is reverberating far beyond the travertine walls of the opera house. Met’s Labor Woes Divide Opera Fans as Well as Participants 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z The festival has been likened to a "mini-Bayreuth", a flattering reference to the purpose-built opera house Wagner had constructed in Bavaria in the 1870s. Conductor Adam Fischer: Wagner's music like "opium" 2012-06-21T15:12:29Z Now, at 81, Díaz, a bass-baritone who has performed for opera companies across the globe, will return to the opera house to see artists pay tribute to his career. Kennedy Center Taps Joni Mitchell and Berry Gordy for Awards 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z But for all her success in the opera house, Ms. Lewis said, it was musical theater she loved best. Brenda Lewis, Versatile American Soprano, Is Dead at 96 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z A small number of opera houses and concert halls around the world have introduced sound enhancement systems, sometimes openly, sometimes stealthily. Wearing a Wire at the Opera, Secretly, of Course 2013-06-28T19:47:55Z Judges draw up a long list and rank each artist based on whether they can “come up with a good idea” that will work for an opera house and speaks to 21st-century audiences. An Opera House Gives Contemporary Art a Major Role 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z During summers in Victorian-era opera houses, admirers of some divas would vie to keep them cool offstage by waving peacock plumes above them as they reclined on the settee. Style Invitational Week 1403: Who was that masked man? 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z No opera house phantom or hip-hop Founding Father populates this piece; the characters are all ordinary folks — nannies, firefighters, receptionists, truckers — singing about their daily routines and sacrifices. Perspective | Restaged in front of the AFL-CIO’s national headquarters, ‘Working’ the musical labors to be a vehicle for activism 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z The diva Renée Fleming treads the boards at leading opera houses and concert halls — and treads some of their boardrooms as well. How Do You Raise $3.47 Billion? Ask These Guys. 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Pappano said it "represents an end of an era, where grit, toil, vision and energy were the defining elements of a leading international opera house." London Symphony conductor Colin Davis dies at 85 2013-04-15T12:00:18Z Previous productions of “Fella,” which is often staged at opera houses, have provoked mild complaints of a disconnect between its exquisite lyrical passages and more conventional showstoppers. Theater Review: ‘The Most Happy Fella’ Is Revived at City Center 2014-04-03T23:17:30Z Ms. Bartoli will continue to appear at opera houses and concert halls around the world after taking the helm in Monte Carlo. Cecilia Bartoli Has a New Role: Head of Monte Carlo’s Opera 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z But the Met has twice as many seats as most European opera houses. Ballet Theater’s Met Season, a Mix of Sparkling Moments and Familiar War Horses 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z “It’s really important that the opera house belongs to everyone,” Ms. Herron said. The Sydney Opera House Goes Quiet. Finally. 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Gelb’s ambitious plans for the Met have led to heavy spending and growing deficits, although, like opera houses and orchestras around the country, it is also suffering from the effects of the recession. 2010-02-06T05:43:00Z Schlingensief's commitment to developing nations recently took him to Burkina Faso, where he was awarded a concession to build an opera house. Christoph Schlingensief obituary 2010-08-24T17:44:00Z The most iconic structures are its grand cantilevered opera house, completed in 1973, and the Sydney Harbor Bridge, an art deco colossus unveiled in 1932. A guide to Sydney’s flourishing small-bar scene 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Others are new to the project, including Italian conductor Gianluca Marcian, taking to the pit for the first time in a London opera house. Hit "Butterfly" gets loving touch in vital ENO revival 2013-10-25T12:13:24Z The opera house and the museum are open for business — two beautiful architectural models rising from a junkyard. Arts Playground Sprouts in China 2010-08-03T14:27:00Z Updating an opera’s action doesn’t transform it — indeed, it’s standard practice in today’s opera houses. A jazzed-up ‘Carmen’ goes where Carmens have gone before 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z But not all opera houses are the same size, so bringing a production from one to another often entails adjusting, or even rebuilding, sets, as well as reimagining some of the blocking. On the Way to the Met, a ‘Meistersinger’ Is Stranded in Europe 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z On May 24, the revolution bicentenary, the opera house reopened with a gala of opera and ballet. An Operatic Drama Performed Mostly Offstage 2010-06-16T14:30:00Z In a recent interview he said that video transmissions could be useful for providing opera for remoter areas without an opera house. 2010-01-13T05:54:00Z One group went through a sequence in the alcoves along the opera house’s side wall. Dance Review: Mark Dendy’s ‘Ritual Cyclical,’ Ensembles Worshiping 2013-07-25T19:47:21Z Opera at the Bowl is put on with far less preparation than in the opera house or even concert opera in the concert hall. Substitutes shine in 'Traviata' at the Hollywood Bowl 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z The opera house approved it, and work began. Revival of ‘Anna Nicole’ Opera Comes to London 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Both of those have been performed by the Metropolitan Opera, the great American opera house. Susan Graham, Opera’s Sweetheart, Tries Something New: Being Nasty 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z Her publicist said there was no rift between the soprano and the opera house. Soprano Netrebko pulls out of "not right" London 'Faust' 2014-02-28T16:42:21Z The horde in the spin room — a cavernous expanse that is usually the backstage of Miami's downtown opera house — makes snap decisions. Biden’s spin doctors, Beto’s flop, a sea of sweat: The madness after the Miami debates. 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z Quite erroneously sometimes the opera house is looked at as being stuck and old-fashioned. The Wind in the Willows to transfer from Royal Opera House to West End 2013-07-08T23:01:01Z Yet an opera house like WNO often struggles at the box office when it dares to put new works in its mainstage season. Opera as lively art — or not-so-lively 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Giordano’s opera will be showing at Milan’s opera house from Dec. 10 through Jan. 5. Petals and confetti shower stage at La Scala opening 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Career: Has sung at all the world's major opera houses, and released dozens of recordings and live albums. Portrait of the artist: Angela Gheorghiu, soprano 2011-07-18T21:31:00Z Running opera houses and performing at them is a lucrative combination for Mr. Domingo. 2010-01-13T22:49:00Z Police gather outside Milan's La Scala opera house on 7 December. Italy arts cut protests reach crescendo with riots at Milan's La Scala 2010-12-07T20:36:00Z Three days out from a spinal surgery, Gelb has appeared at the opera house to make a preshow speech, thanking audience members for their support. Never Missing a Curtain This Season, the Met Opera Takes a Final Bow 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z Built in 1857, it’s the oldest opera house in America still used for the purpose for which it was built. Dance Review: ?Jeu de Cartes? by the Pennsylvania Ballet - Review 2011-10-21T23:28:56Z The circuit then continues past one timeless landmark after another — the royal palace, the opera house — before pausing in Gustav Adolf’s Square, “pleasing, ever-changing, without tiring symmetry.” Stockholm as Strindberg’s Muse 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z He is a conductor who brings his wide experience in the opera house to the concert platform. NSO brilliant in performance of Britten’s ‘War Requiem’ 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z The ornate opera house was packed from the orchestra seats to the top gallery, with captains of industry and children, college students and mill workers. The night Mark Twain brought Huck Finn alive 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z Jimmy Porter could fill an opera house with his bellowing hunger for a bigger, better life and a loyal love to share it with. Theater Review: ?Look Back in Anger,? Starring Matthew Rhys 2012-02-03T03:03:00Z Showing a visitor around, Ms. Herron, the opera house executive, was keenly attuned to the many features of the building, old and new. The Sydney Opera House Goes Quiet. Finally. 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z “People in New York go to see what they want to see,” he said, not to the nearest opera house. City Opera Director Defends New Season 2011-07-12T23:00:30Z Allison said more than 1,500 nominations were received from 41 countries with the judging panel made up 10 opera experts ranging from critics and opera house chiefs to singers. Opera world stages its own awards as faces budget crunch 2013-02-15T13:38:46Z But now she's seized the chance to build a grand, 1,800-seat opera house overlooking the Pearl River in southern China. The best architecture for 2011 2011-01-03T08:00:02Z Other voices, though, are better fit for an opera house — voluminous to the point of superhuman strength, thrilling for their athleticism as much their artistry. Review: A Singer’s Immense Sound Engulfs a Recital Room 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z The Met will give its first performance back at the opera house on Sept. 11 with a special concert of Verdi’s Requiem to mark the 20th anniversary of the attacks. Met Opera Reaches Deal With Orchestra, Paving Way for Reopening 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z But in the opera house, in Verdi especially, Muti is peerless. Italian stallion Riccardo Muti is winning hearts in Chicago 2010-09-23T14:20:00Z That can be translated with the opera house for sure. Yannick Nézet-Séguin Will Shake Things Up at the Met Opera 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z His most recent appointment was in Essen, Germany, where he led that city’s opera house, the Aalto Theater, as well as the Essen Philharmonic from 1997 to 2013. Austrian Conductor Dies After Collapsing Onstage in Munich 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z Several people noisily left the opera house - which has no aisles down the center, only side exits - after Siegfried pumped Fafner full of lead. Take that, dragon: Siegfried blasts Fafner for Wagner's 200th 2013-07-29T22:39:03Z But that was a different time at this opera house. Review: ‘The Devils of Loudun’ Offers No Escape From Horror 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z But since 1976, when Houston Grand Opera brought it back to the opera house, it has often been claimed — you can almost hear the capital letters — as the Great American Opera. The Complex History and Uneasy Present of ‘Porgy and Bess’ 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z The singers wear microphones; the Glimmerglass Festival orchestra performed from the stage of the opera house, with its sound channeled into the general amplification. Glimmerglass Creates Magic in Its Own Backyard 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z When you sign that contract, you’re tied to that opera house to try your best. A Hungry Singer, Consuming His Roles 2011-04-17T00:31:06Z A magnificent voice carrying through a spacious opera house. What Shouldn’t Change About Classical Music 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z Wednesday morning’s deal appeared to signal the beginning of the final act of an offstage drama that has roiled the opera house for months. Metropolitan Opera Clears Last Hurdle in Labor Talks 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Dubai, a tourist destination synonymous with shopping malls and luxury resorts, aims to add high culture to its attractions as it opens an opera house in the shadow of the world's tallest building. Opera house adds upmarket touch to Dubai's tourist appeal 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Michael Spyres — a baritenor, that rare breed of singers, more prevalent in Rossini’s time, who nimbly span the ranges of baritones and tenors — would best be described as an opera house vocalist. Review: A Singer’s Immense Sound Engulfs a Recital Room 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Camané even ended his set with vocals and instruments unamplified, as if playing at a traditional fado house; his voice was large enough to fill the opera house. Music Review: Caman? Sings Fado at BAM in Next Wave Festival - Review 2011-12-04T23:16:02Z Despite the possibility of a lockout that would upend the Metropolitan Opera’s big fall season, exhibitions at Gallery Met, in the south lobby of the opera house, are proceeding as planned. A Renaissance Master Finally Gets a Showcase 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z This issue of editions often stirs up competing scholarly and pragmatic imperatives at opera houses. Whose Version of Rossini? Scholar Disagrees With the Met 2011-04-08T19:41:26Z And last year’s release of the performance of “Die Tote Stadt” by the Bavarian State Opera gives those not ready to return to the opera house another at-home viewing option. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Flames ripped through Kuwait's new opera house on Monday, just three months after the futuristic $770-million venue opened to the public. Kuwait's new opera house catches fire 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z But one with a significant number of moving parts takes place at the Vienna opera house and involves action in the rafters, high above the stage. ‘Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation’ (With Movie Trailer): Christopher McQuarrie Narrates a Scene 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z This weekend the musicians in the Metropolitan Opera orchestra wore buttons during performances to call attention to the fact that the opera house is seeking concessions from them in contract talks. ArtsBeat: Met Orchestra Authorizes Strike Vote if Talks Fail 2014-05-13T00:23:19Z But opera houses and concert halls are also well accustomed to personnel changes, given the frequency of illnesses and injuries that can afflict the bodies inhabited by musical artists. Europe?s Cloud of Ash Casts Pall Over World of Music 2010-04-16T23:27:00Z This isn't the first opera house built on the Arabian Peninsula, as Oman opened the Royal Opera House Muscat in 2011. Skyscraper-filled Dubai burnishes arts scene with new opera 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z "Lots of the people running opera houses in England just did not know who Dahl was." Fox pop: English Touring Opera gives Roald Dahl back to the kids 2011-02-17T22:26:00Z In a March 17 story about the historic Teatro Colon opera house, The Associated Press reported erroneously that it will reopen a day before Argentina celebrates the bicentennial of its independence. Correction: Argentina-Teatro Colon story 2010-05-21T16:28:00Z But young people must somehow get themselves into the opera house to hear it live, with natural sound. New York Times Critics Respond to Glyndebourne ‘Fat’ Reviews 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Jon Vickers, a Canadian tenor whose voice — titanic and yet delicate — was regarded as one of the finest sounds to fill an opera house in the past half-century, died July 10 in Ontario, Canada. Jon Vickers, acclaimed Canadian operatic tenor, dies at 88 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z All of the sets were constructed by us and are not a part of the opera house. ‘Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation’ (With Movie Trailer): Christopher McQuarrie Narrates a Scene 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z All of that will be perfectly evident to anyone who frequents the opera house. Music Review: ?Madama Butterfly? at the Metropolitan Opera - Review 2011-12-08T22:28:07Z There have been contrasting scenes playing out at the opera house in recent days. ‘We Are the Met’: Opera Unions Rally Against Proposed Pay Cuts 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Pop acts from the United States like Sufjan Stevens and TV on the Radio will appear at the city’s opera house for performances, as will Daniel Johns of Australia. What's On This Week Around The World 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z The result, he assured his audience, is a “classic,” worthy of world-class opera houses such as London’s Covent Garden, Vienna’s State Opera House and now, the Châtelet. Theater: Th??tre Du Ch?telet Aims to Bring Broadway to Paris 2011-04-14T14:00:04Z In 2014, she stirred controversy when she made the donation of a million rubles — then roughly $18,500 — to the opera house in Donetsk. The Netrebko Question 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Her performance earned a standing ovation and glowing reviews, followed by offers from major opera houses in Barcelona, Spain, and Dresden, Germany. Ekaterina Bakanova, an Opera Sensation Also Touched by Luck 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z That assessment was borne out during the weeklong Helsinki International Ballet Competition, which followed the ballet gala in the opera house. The Finnish National Ballet at 100 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z She has hired a crisis communications firm, lobbied opera houses and concert halls for engagements and filed a labor grievance against the Met. The Netrebko Question 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z The sequence of spaces ties the opera house into the park around it, redeeming what until now was little-used space. Architecture Review: Chinese Gem That Elevates Its Setting 2011-07-05T21:43:47Z The opera house’s acoustics are bright and clean, if a little dry, and they project young voices well. Music Review: ?Cos? Fan Tutte? at Lyric Opera of Kansas City - Review 2011-11-14T22:14:30Z From then on it was one of the success stories of the century, a delirious conquest of one leading opera house after another. Dame Joan Sutherland obituary 2010-10-11T17:56:00Z Amplified voices allow for the delivery of nuance lost in the opera house. Puccini extreme: Dudamel's gloriously pessimistic 'Tosca' an indictment on the appeal of fascism 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z But there are encouraging signs that at the opera house, as in the city, the recent surge has peaked and cases are falling dramatically again. The Met Opera Never Missed a Curtain. It Hopes Audiences Rebound. 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z To see and hear favorite productions performed by star conductors and singers, opera lovers head to Roman amphitheaters, outdoor theaters and traditional opera houses throughout Europe. Music: Europe's Operatic Summer 2011-07-01T12:30:07Z Mr. Gergiev, who is expert at shaping huge orchestral and choral forces in the opera house, was at his best in the finale. Music Review: Finding the Right Pace (and Support Crew) for a Marathon 2010-10-22T22:44:00Z Some years ago, she recalled, the company did a “Traviata” whose huge set was borrowed from another, larger opera house. Peter J. Hall, Costumer for Opera, Theater, Dies at 84 2010-06-10T05:00:00Z Bringing clean water to millions in Africa can seem a lot more important than helping an already-flush opera house build its endowment. How Do You Raise $3.47 Billion? Ask These Guys. 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z The tone was set when angry protesters gathered outside the Met last month, and some described a work that bore little resemblance to the one being rehearsed inside the opera house. Met’s ‘Death of Klinghoffer’ Remains a Lightning Rod 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z “Phantom,” now playing at the Gateway Playhouse in Bellport, is not “The Phantom of the Opera,” Andrew Lloyd Webber’s version of the same story set in the Paris opera house. | Long Island: A Review of ‘Phantom’ in Bellport, N.Y. 2012-09-01T04:29:56Z And he pushed a costly renovation of the opera house’s main theater that was finished in 2017. Daniel Barenboim, a Towering Maestro Held Back by Illness 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z The newspaper says opera houses in England, Germany and the U.S. are in talks about co-producing the piece for a possible 2013 premiere. Ian McEwan plans opera version of 'Atonement' 2010-03-19T13:45:00Z Performances are set every night of the week through year’s end at Vienna’s opera house. Opera, Ballet and More Treats for Fall: Global Arts Guide 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z The challenge of discerning the layout of a piece becomes much easier in the opera house, because an opera is a show: The plot provides narrative structure: You can’t miss it. The Concert Hall as Refuge in a Restless, Web-Driven World 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z “Will some of these new audiences gravitate to the opera house?” New faces, new ambitions as opera houses reopen 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Exploding fireworks sprayed from Sydney's iconic opera house and harbor bridge at midnight Tuesday as the world began ushering in a new year. Revelers start ringing in 2014 with fireworks 2013-12-31T13:58:40Z The lifetime achievement awards for artistic excellence will be presented Sunday night in a gala at the Kennedy Center’s main opera house after the coronavirus pandemic forced delays and major changes to last year’s plans. Kennedy Center Honors and its traditions are back once more 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z But as Mr. Bergé noted gleefully, he used that and other controversies to increase attendance at the opera house. Pierre Bergé, Transformative Fashion Executive, Dies at 86 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z But I have to be very sensitive, because actually that isn't my realm in the opera house. Mike Figgis beds down with Lucrezia Borgia 2011-01-20T22:00:02Z Grange Park Opera will open there in 2017, in a new opera house surrounded by acres of gardens and space in the main house for 150 people to dine. For Opera Fans, a Grand Day Out 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z The “architectural miracle” of the Palais Garnier opera house rose like a soufflé at one splendid end of the Avenue de l’Opéra. A Lively, Fast-Paced Account of France’s Second Empire 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z The main city, Ulaanbaatar, has an opera house and a music academy, the State University of Arts and Culture, from which Mr. Enkhbat graduated in 2009. A Busy Baritone Gets Ready for a New ‘Rigoletto’ 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z At curtain time they repair to the opera house, and at intermission — 80 minutes long — they return to the lawn, where they dine on picnics that have by long precedent included strawberries and Champagne. George Christie Dies at 79; Steward of His Family’s Glyndebourne Legacy 2014-05-13T04:28:58Z With three major opera houses in Berlin, the new staging will therefore be the fourth version in a single city. In Germany, a New ‘Magic Flute’ Is a Deadly Serious Game 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z What a curious contrast with the musical engagement of our own monarchical family, the members of which are seldom – if ever – to be seen in the Covent Garden opera house dedicated to them. The rest is power: classical music in the age of the dictatorship 2013-05-10T15:01:02Z A spokeswoman for the Dusseldorf opera house said Tuesday that members of the audience "booed and were shocked" by Saturday's opening performance. Nazi-themed opera creates scandal in Germany 2013-05-07T13:42:55Z The police also learned from an audience member about a man — Mr. Kaiser it turned out — who had mentioned spreading the ashes of a friend at opera houses around the country, the official said. Opera Fan’s Last Wish Led to Terror Scare at the Met 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z But Britain's big opera houses are lumbered with a different problem. Love opera. Don't fall into the trappings trap 2010-05-27T21:00:00Z And if consistency matters, should we now be parsing the morality of every dollar that built every opera house and museum a century ago? Perspective | Two major museums are turning down Sackler donations. Will others follow? 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z “And opera houses had boxes where people could take their mistresses. In the old Paris opera house, there are still boxes with a sofa in them.” Bar and Bathroom Lines, Molto Adagio 2014-04-18T20:59:14Z The ensemble - one of the world's best orchestras - will play Gustav Mahler's 9th Symphony at the opera house to mark the 100th anniversary of Mahler's death. Vienna Philharmonic to play benefit gig for Japan 2011-04-08T12:13:09Z If you want to see “Carmen” in 3-D, get thee to an opera house! | 'Carmen in 3D': A Feisty Singing Gypsy, Right There on Your Lap 2011-03-04T22:53:03Z Simon Yu, project architect of the opera house, called me from China. The week in architecture 2011-07-15T11:31:31Z A particular frisson comes simply from watching ballet in America’s most beautiful opera house, the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, with its marvelous décor and depths. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Nutcracker’ in Philadelphia and by Manhattan Youth Ballet 2012-12-17T22:54:57Z The Los Angeles organization becomes the latest arts organization in the country — from regional theaters to symphony orchestras to opera houses — to grapple with a drop-off in attendance in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. L.A.’s Center Theater Group Lays Off Staff and Halts Work on One Stage 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z Outside the opera house police clashed with demonstrators protesting cuts to both culture and higher education. Singers vs. director in La Scala 'Walkuere' 2010-12-12T11:01:00Z “It is one of the great opera houses of the world, and I worry about it,” Andrews said. Missing the Acts You Love? Spare a Thought for These Superfans 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z Many large orchestras and opera houses have a documented problem with the cynically termed “vision thing,” and nowhere more than in the area of contemporary music. Perspective | When artists take over programming, do audiences benefit? 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z The Teatro Colon, Argentina's foremost opera house in Buenos Aires, expressed "profound consternation" at her death. Argentine opera singer dies after stroke on stage 2013-09-03T23:12:10Z Lavish theatricals, bigger names, a glossier orchestral finish, an absence of peacocks: all these needs can be satisfied in mainstream opera houses. Madama Butterfly; Cavalleria rusticana; Pagliacci; Pierre-Laurent Aimard – review 2013-06-15T23:05:36Z At the opera house, the audience sits only in the mezzanine. Review: In This One-Man Opera, It’s All in His Head 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z It was extraordinary to look out onto the gilt and velvet balconies of the opera house, a privilege to take in one of the city’s most beautiful vistas from a soprano’s eye view. Edun, Opening Ceremony, Versus Versace and More Showed at Fashion Week 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Yet, while the pulsating lights disguise what are regular office towers, once inside, Hadid's opera house reveals itself in all its complexity, at once highly theatrical and insistently subtle. Move over, Sydney: Zaha Hadid's Guangzhou Opera House 2011-02-28T21:30:00Z LOW I certainly couldn’t afford the chopper tour, but I was hoping to find an alternative that would also let me see the bridge and opera house. A $1,000 Day in Sydney for $100 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Mr. Pita, 41, said in a recent interview at the opera house. Edward Watson and Arthur Pita Create ‘The Metamorphosis’ 2013-08-30T20:48:52Z And I walked over to see the opera house. Tenor Villazon making Met opera comeback 2013-11-22T15:45:13Z That kerfuffle died down as he took over the opera house, but the “Meistersinger” project never seemed to gain its footing. On the Way to the Met, a ‘Meistersinger’ Is Stranded in Europe 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z The Metropolitan Opera has selected Ennead Architects to design the renovation and expansion of its lobby, the opera house said on Thursday. Met Opera Names Ennead Architects to Redesign Lobby 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Do the opera houses receive too much public money? Motown sounds an orchestral warning 2010-10-08T15:43:00Z It's one of three major opera houses in the German capital. Barenboim to stay 10 more years at Berlin opera 2011-07-06T13:05:34Z He is the opera house complex’s point man in a vast renovation project aimed at bringing all those innards up-to-date. The Sydney Opera House Goes Quiet. Finally. 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z The concert was a benefit for two distant organizations: the Sheridan Arts Foundation, which maintains a vintage opera house in Telluride, Colo., and the Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis, in Miami. Music Review: Motown at the Apollo, Suspended in Time 2011-02-16T22:27:36Z The cream-colored, eight-columned ballet and opera house is admired the world over as Russia's home of the classics. Puppets, naked ladies run wild in revamped Bolshoi 2011-11-01T14:32:16Z And I will soon be leading my own opera house, where I’m sure a large part of the audience might think that way. A New ‘Aida’ Lands in the Middle of France’s Culture Wars 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z In 2014, she donated to an opera house in Donetsk, a war-torn city in Ukraine controlled by Russian separatists, and was photographed holding a separatist flag. The Netrebko Question 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Sotelo also ventures beyond classical opera by adding a component of electronic music and using a sound system made up of 35 loudspeakers spread around the opera house. García Lorca’s ‘El Público’ Is Made Into Opera at Teatro Real in Madrid 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z In any great city, the opera house will be as much a forum for confrontation with the present, the past and the future as any theatre, cinema or television channel. 'Opera has never been more alive' 2011-08-19T23:19:01Z Donors to the Met, upon whom the New York opera house relies heavily for its funding, also came under pressure. Klinghoffer opera 'must be performed' 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z It's an empty space every bit as valid as a velvet and gilt opera house, and maybe even a little bit more magical. The National Theatre goes pop-up 2011-07-27T11:43:27Z In the opera house he is one of the most memorable presences on the scene right now. Music Review: Iestyn Davies at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-12-17T01:09:20Z In 2008 Dubai announced plans to build a series of cultural projects including libraries, theaters, museums and an opera house. ArtsBeat: Dubai to Build Modern Art Museum and Opera House 2012-03-22T15:40:22Z "It's the best opera house in the world, I think," he said. Luisi appointed Met's principal guest conductor 2010-04-27T23:37:00Z “That’s not the Met Opera,” said James J. Claffey Jr., president of Local One of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, which represents Met stagehands, pointing over to the opera house. ‘We Are the Met’: Opera Unions Rally Against Proposed Pay Cuts 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Now, after a decade of apprenticeship, Green is entering a new phase of an improbable career that has already taken him from poverty, violence and juvenile detention to a place at America’s leading opera house. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green ready for operatic stardom 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z When they appeared last season at the Met in Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin,” protesters outside the opera house decried Russia’s antigay laws. Donation to Ukrainian Opera House Puts Netrebko in a Political Spotlight 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z There’s a primal aspect to the sound that takes you out of just being in an opera house. The ‘Hamlet’ Chord: A Composer’s Music of Indecision 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z In Brooklyn, he geared this performance toward its site: an opera house with a seated audience. Youssou N’Dour Performs at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z So far, it has remained unscathed, unlike the opera house in Kharkiv, which suffered damage in the Russian assault on that city. Ukrainian Dancers Find Shelter Abroad as War Rages at Home 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Woodies closed in 1995; the 11th and G streets headquarters sat empty for eight years after a failed attempt by the Washington Opera to convert it into an opera house. Luxury shopping returns to downtown D.C. Is Washington ready to buy? The audience was able to forget, at least temporarily, that it was at the center of an opera house under siege. A Cyberattack Shuts the Met Opera’s Box Office, but the Show Goes On 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Few star conductors devote themselves exclusively, or even semi-exclusively, to an opera house, and even those that do restrict themselves solely to taking care of the music. Opera reviews: why does no one write about the music? 2011-03-01T12:56:43Z By comparison, the crisis in the opera house’s “The Mastersingers of Nuremberg,” as it’s billed, may seem teacup-sized: This is an opera about 16th-century German merchants squabbling over rules of creativity. Review: ‘Meistersinger,’ Wagner’s Playful Paean to Culture, in London 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Every month there's an opera house or concert hall debuted. 'Crouching Tiger' composer Tan Dun will give L.A. Phil a martial-arts workout 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Blue said she hoped that more opera houses would eliminate blackface as they work to bring diversity to the stage. Soprano Withdraws From Opera, Citing ‘Blackface’ in Netrebko’s ‘Aida’ 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z She went on to star in the great opera houses of London, Paris and Vienna. Billy Joel, 4 others receive Kennedy Center Honors 2013-12-09T06:46:09Z Now the New York painter Elizabeth Peyton has ventured beyond the gallery’s walls and into the opera house itself. Inside Art: Cindy Sherman?s Guises All in a Single Place 2011-02-17T21:45:07Z He moved to Europe in 1990 and quickly established his profile with performances at German opera houses. Johan Botha, Operatic Tenor, Dies at 51 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z “It’s not every day that you get an invitation to have an opera house built in your garden.” For Opera Fans, a Grand Day Out 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z In Canberra, there are no beaches or iconic opera houses, and European chic is best sought an hour’s flight away in Melbourne. 36 Hours in Canberra, Australia 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Today it's seen in more than 1,900 theaters in 64 countries, with nearly 13 million tickets sold since 2006, according to figures provided by the opera house. Museum exhibitions come to movie theaters 2013-04-09T09:01:06Z The art form — which has had, they observe, “unusual longevity for a musical genre” — will linger but is effectively dead, despite the zombielike proliferation of opera houses and performances. Books of The Times: ‘A History of Opera,’ by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker 2012-12-27T22:03:04Z No clutter gets in the way — this ballet was made for an opera house, and Ashton intended the vastness to be felt. Review | Washington Ballet’s ‘Mixed Masters’ program marks growth of company 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z He’s done this while steering clear of opera houses, which are not necessarily conducive to the close collaborations and perpetual reinventions that Mr. Padmore relishes. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Billy Budd,’ an Unusual Foray for Mark Padmore 2014-02-06T23:28:59Z “I said, ‘I would like to renew the opera house for future generations,’” she recalled. The Sydney Opera House Goes Quiet. Finally. 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Now leading opera houses and orchestras are getting in on the streaming act, on their own. An Opera Lover Tests Streaming Services 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z “With an opera singer, you either do or you don’t,” explained Mr. Fabiano, who sings at leading opera houses all over the world and travels for most of the year. An Operatic Love Story Starts Off on a Sour Note 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Since then, the Mariinsky has grown into a huge complex, for which Gergiev has built a second opera house and concert hall. Russia's secret weapon? Valery Gergiev and the rapturous music of the Mariinsky Orchestra 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z The city’s cultural footprint grew in the following decades, with an opera house, a ballet company, the Southeast’s largest repertory theater, an art school and now this new museum. New Art Museum Adds to Sarasota’s Cultural Heritage 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z But more buzz now surrounds the dazzling architectural landmarks — the sinuous art museum that opened last year and the angular opera house — anchoring the city’s renewed waterfront. 36 Hours in Oslo 2013-06-12T16:47:14Z Stravinsky objected to composers who, as he put it, took the opera house into the church. Review: A 'Vespers' for the ages at St. James Cathedral 2010-12-04T18:09:00Z The company was not squeezing opera buffs into the aisles of its Art Deco opera house, which sits at the base of a 45-story limestone skyscraper on the Chicago River. Opera Has a Problem: Fans Aren’t Subscribing 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z With three full-time opera houses, seven major symphony orchestras and numerous world-class choirs, all lavishly funded by the German government, Berlin may well be the most musically active city on earth. Meet the New Generation Leading Berlin’s Classical Scene 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z There is a “lake” under the opera house. An Opera House Inspired by More Than Music 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z It is only really needed in an opera house, where you have to be extremely clear so that everyone onstage can see you. There Are Three Versions of Bruckner’s Fourth. Why Choose? 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z The historical nature of the Beaux-Arts building near San Francisco City Hall — it opened in 1932 — and the exacting demands of its high-end opera house and ballet made this project particularly complicated. ‘The Opposite of Airlines’: When Larger Audiences Require Fewer Seats 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z The reach that the Met can have is like no other opera house. Yannick Nézet-Séguin Will Shake Things Up at the Met Opera 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z The awards received 1,500 nominations from 41 countries and the winners decided by a 10-member jury made up of opera critics, opera house chiefs and singers. Frankfurt, Kaufmann, Stemme top opera honors 2013-04-22T21:52:58Z When the Canadian Opera Company approached Mr. Neef, then still casting director in Paris, in 2008, it was, he said, the first time he had thought about running an opera house. Running the Paris Opera Was Never Going to Be Easy. But Come On. 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z “The world might not see it. But the operatic world is really breaking this wall, and we have to thank the opera houses and casting directors.” ‘I Could Barely Sing a High C’: Pretty Yende Finally Conquers Lucia 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z “The donation was handed to an official to ensure that it would reach its intended destination, the opera house in Donetsk,” she said. Donation to Ukrainian Opera House Puts Netrebko in a Political Spotlight 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z For a night at the opera, security was tight, with dozens of police officers stationed around the opera house at Lincoln Center in midtown Manhattan. Protesters decry Met Opera's 'Death of Klinghoffer' as anti-Semitic 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z And why has he chosen to set the piece in a magically expanding and contracting version of the estate’s Organ Room, which audience members can walk through just a few steps from the opera house? Review: An Operatic Locavore Consumes the English Countryside 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z The delays have hampered many industries, but they are particularly upending classical music, which relies on stars from all over the world to make a circuit of leading concert halls and opera houses. Concert Halls Are Back. But Visa Backlogs Are Keeping Musicians Out. 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z She had full access at the opera house because her first husband, Hermann Erhardt, an oboist to whom she was married from 1950 to 1953, was the son of the theater’s director. Lisl Steiner, Colorful Creator of Black-and-White Photographs, Dies at 95 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z But "Dutchman" was the big news, because it's the first production directed by Andreas Homoki since he became general manager of the opera house earlier this year. Review: Terfel shines in Zurich's odd 'Dutchman' 2012-12-10T11:31:05Z “It can feel relaxing to escape and go to a Donizetti opera that’s set in a previous era,” Stone said in a panel discussion at the opera house during rehearsal. Met moves Donizetti opera to decaying American town 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Kramer, who has never before held a position at an opera house or run a major arts organization, will need all his optimistic, feisty exuberance to prove himself and rescue the company. A Newcomer to Opera Tries to Tame a Tempest 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z With this transgressive musical and philosophical programme, it's no surprise that Wagner's music placed new demands on his singers and musicians and on any opera house crazy enough to try to perform it. Tristan und Isolde – Wagner's love supreme 2012-12-20T18:00:01Z Public sculpture popped up around town, a new art museum opened, and, at the opera house, Currentzis was beginning to attract wider critical attention. Teodor Currentzis Brings His Intense Verdi to New York 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z When it came to the customer experience, however, the opera house had to contend with the Scylla and Charybdis of modern renovation: accessibility and historical heritage. The Sydney Opera House Goes Quiet. Finally. 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Milan's La Scala opera house opened its new season on Wednesday with the original, more brutal version of Giacomo Puccini's "Madama Butterfly", not shown there since its poorly received premiere in 1904. Puccini's original 'Madama Butterfly' back at La Scala after 112 years 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Levine fell and injured himself while on vacation in Vermont last week, according to the opera house. New York's Met loses James Levine to back injury 2011-09-06T21:38:55Z The allegations split the industry, with U.S. opera houses canceling Domingo’s engagements and Europe houses mostly sticking by him. After recovering from virus, Domingo vows to clear name 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z In a plaza next to the opera house, a reality TV show was set up in containers and recorded in the style of “Big Brother.” Carrie Brownstein, Carly Rae Jepsen and Others on First-Time Cultural Experiences 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z Summoning a quartet of great Verdi singers — soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor and baritone — isn’t easy, but there’s no reason a major opera house should go 0 for 4. Review: ‘Aida’ Gives a Taste of the Met Opera’s Bad Old Days 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z “The problem in opera houses is that you have a lot of rehearsal for one project and then you have a revival with much less,” Mr. Levine said. Donald Palumbo, a Met Star in the Wings 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Opera in the Soviet Union was generally performed in Russian, so in those days a leading Aida could not easily transfer her success to a Western opera house without relearning the part. Olympics Spotlight for Russia’s Musical Profile 2014-02-05T22:54:52Z All this added piquancy to a weekend spent sampling Berlin's three opera houses. Berlin on song 2010-04-03T23:06:00Z Among the cultural institutions Levine subjects to critical scrutiny — libraries, museums, concert halls, opera houses, public parks — colleges and universities are conspicuous by their absence. The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z Louise Herron, the opera house’s chief executive, arrived eight years ago for what she saw as an opportunity to finally accomplish the rehabilitation the institution had been eyeing for decades. The Sydney Opera House Goes Quiet. Finally. 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Inside the opera house they experienced a different kind of storm - a flood of glorious sound as Nina Stemme unfurled her magnificent voice. Nina Stemme ignites Houston's 'Tristan' 2013-04-28T15:11:09Z Over the decades, his projects included Tarrant County College in Fort Worth and the Xiqu Centre opera house in Hong Kong. Bing Thom, Canadian architect who redesigned Arena Stage, dies at 75 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Statistics compiled by the service organization Opera America clearly reveal that despite the plurality of musical and dramatic styles in opera today, “American verismo” continues its overwhelming dominance in the country’s mainstream opera houses. When Puccini Rode Tall In the Saddle 2010-12-03T19:38:00Z "But I think that the audience has made this very clear to the opera house and the director." German Nazi-themed opera cancelled after deluge of complaints 2013-05-09T11:32:15Z Most of the operas now filling China’s stages are from the standard romantic repertory, sung in the original languages, often as co-productions with overseas opera houses. East Is East, and West Is West, but the Twain Are Now Meeting in Opera 2010-12-31T23:22:09Z She studied ballet there and performed at the local opera house before beginning her movie career. Bernadette Lafont, Actress in New Wave Films, Dies at 74 2013-08-01T03:49:56Z Oman opened an opera house in 2011, Bahrain opened one of the Middle East's largest theaters in 2012 and Abu Dhabi is building a branch of the Louvre museum. Opera house adds upmarket touch to Dubai's tourist appeal 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Over coffee near the opera house, Hallberg talked about what it was like to begin the job in the middle of a pandemic, his vision for the Australian Ballet and whether he is pro-Vegemite. David Hallberg’s New Job: Decision Maker 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z Robert Yekovich, Shepherd’s dean, said in a statement that the addition of the new opera house signifies the shift from a university “based in sciences to one that’s based in arts and sciences.” ArtsBeat: Rice University Picks Design Team for New Opera Theater 2014-04-01T17:15:52Z He had walked out of the opera house gone to dinner, and hoped to return for the evening performance, the official said. Opera Fan’s Last Wish Led to Terror Scare at the Met 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z The production marks the beginning of a Meyerbeer cycle at the opera house, where new productions of “The Huguenots” and “The Prophet” will be staged over the next two years. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z From regional theaters to Broadway, and from local orchestras to grand opera houses, performing arts organizations are reporting persistent — and worrisome — drops in attendance. Live Performance Is Back. But Audiences Have Been Slow to Return. 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z Staging oratorios in the opera house is nearly routine nowadays, especially those by Handel; for every “Agrippina,” you’re likely to get a “Messiah” too. Review: A ‘Semele’ Bound for New York Takes Its First Bows 2023-07-16T04:00:00Z I and my fellow understudies have to remain within a six-mile radius - or be no longer than 15 minutes away - of the opera house during every performance, but I've never, yet, been needed on stage. Understudying: the waiting game 2013-01-28T19:17:50Z Strangely, it was the long-awaited new opera house that began to separate the Finnish Ballet from its roots. The Finnish National Ballet at 100 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Cassatt's contribution was an etching with a familiar subject, a woman with a fan sitting in the opera house. Exhibit shows Degas' and Cassatt's painterly influence on each other 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z He recognized the opera house’s shortcomings, including acoustics that reminded one British critic of being “shut up in a matchbox with a bumblebee.” George Christie, heir to Glyndebourne opera, dies at 79 The works will be displayed at the opera house in Gallery Met through May 13 in a show called “Artists for the Met.” Chuck Close and Cindy Sherman Donate Works for Met Opera Benefit 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Musicians, fearful that a result will be cuts in pay, are organizing free concerts in support of themselves and other opera house workers. Strikes Silence Italy?s Opera Houses 2010-05-04T23:05:00Z Her little fidgets, eye motions and twitches around the mouth register in the extreme close-ups of movie theater HD, but they disappear in the opera house, along with our interest. Music Review: Dessay Is Pale in ?Lucia di Lammermoor? 2011-02-25T08:38:16Z But with that proviso it would work in a normal opera house. Peter Maxwell Davies?s New Opera, ?Kommilitonen!? 2011-11-12T22:15:07Z Kramer had a never held a senior position at an opera house before joining the company, and many critics felt he wasn’t up to the job. For This Opera Director, a Lot Is Riding on a ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Holten, already a much liked and admired figure at the opera house, was artistic director of the Royal Danish Opera in his native Copenhagen, but also has an international reputation as a director. Eugene Onegin; La traviata – review 2013-02-10T00:06:16Z After Glimmerglass, it took off and went to New York City Opera, and then I sang it at one opera house after another. Carlisle Floyd: Artists Share Memories of a Composer 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z Staged in St. Petersburg, then freshly renamed Leningrad, at the opera house now called the Mariinsky Theater, Schreker’s youthful tour de force made a huge impression. Music: Franz Schreker?s Opera ?Der Ferne Klang? at Bard 2010-07-25T01:32:00Z “But the opera house has to look more like America.” How a Fast-Rising Opera Singer Prepared for Her Met Debut 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Seats were only being filled 71 percent of the time and the opera house had to dip into its reserves to keep going. Hit "Butterfly" gets loving touch in vital ENO revival 2013-10-25T12:13:24Z The Met began to more strictly enforce a policy prohibiting employees with cold-like symptoms from entering the opera house, even if they have tested negative for the virus. Scrambling but Undaunted, the Met Opera Sings Through Omicron 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z Monday’s explorations began at the glorious 1884 opera house, where we got a taste of the city’s deep sense of competition with Vienna. Swapping a boat for a bus to explore Prague, Vienna and Budapest 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Unrest was largely limited to verbal volleys between patrons and a few breakaway protesters closer to the opera house. Controversial 'Death of Klinghoffer' goes on at Met Opera House despite protests 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z She emphasized that the Covid era had underscored the vulnerability of the profession: “We discovered that we are nothing — the opera houses were closed. It really has to be love from your guts.” Ermonela Jaho ‘Can Sing Your Music’ 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z Correction: An earlier version of this story misspelled the name of Torino's opera house. Perspective | The secret life of a music director 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z In an opera house, Mr. Fischer-Dieskau’s voice might have lacked some heft for the role. Classical Playlist: Puccini, Mendelssohn, Wagner and More 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z The entire Australian media announced his building as a rival for the opera house. Frank Gehry's new building looks like five scrunched-up brown bags 2011-01-09T22:30:00Z The public areas were resplendent upon its reopening in 2010 — it is one of the most beautiful opera houses in the world — but less prominent parts of the renovation remain unfinished. Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires Aims to Reclaim Glory Days with a New Direction 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z When it comes to broadening the sounds that echo through our opera houses and concert halls, change can be frustratingly slow. Review: Without a Note of Beethoven, an Orchestra Shines 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Not only has Ms. Peyton covered the gallery’s white walls with the same red velvet that envelops the opera house, she is also creating a treasure hunt throughout the Met. Inside Art: Cindy Sherman?s Guises All in a Single Place 2011-02-17T21:45:07Z Since the Met reopened after losing more than a full season to the pandemic, it has required that staff members and patrons be fully vaccinated to enter the opera house. Met Opera to Mandate Booster Shots for Staff and Audiences 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z A manager of a London opera house is a man who carries about a barrel of gunpowder and cannot put it down because he is pursued with flaming torches. The Royal Opera House: Welcome to the new people's palace 2011-03-06T00:16:48Z The Met is designing podiums that elevate, which will be used at the opera house and at Carnegie Hall. James Levine plans Met Opera return in May 2012-10-12T02:31:05Z There's no need to apologise: I'm gobsmacked by the sight of a perfectly proportioned 480-seat opera house, complete with the Royal Opera House's old red-velvet seats, thrown away after Covent Garden's refurbishment. Bringing Wagner to Gloucestershire 2010-07-22T22:06:00Z As a result, most major opera houses shunned his work, which some critics found technically impressive but impenetrable. John Eaton, Composer and Electronic Innovator, Dies at 80 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z The announcement relieves the opera house of having continually to find replacements and removes a lingering cloud of uncertainty because of Mr. Levine’s health problems. ArtsBeat Blog: James Levine Withdraws Indefinitely From Conducting at the Met 2011-12-09T20:35:56Z Hitler helped draw up architectural plans, which megomaniacally grew to include a theater and an opera house, a hotel, a library and parade grounds. Abroad: 13th Linz Album of Hitler?s Returned to Germany 2010-05-18T23:58:00Z The Israeli opera house will show Nicolas Joël’s production, which sets the action in flapper-era Paris, from Jan. 9 to 24. Performance Guide 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z I walked 50 yards to the open square in front of the Vienna State Opera — arguably the greatest opera house in Europe. Rick Steves gets lost in the music and grandeur of Vienna 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z It was not your conventional opera house, but then again for this opera company — Brooklyn’s LoftOpera — that is the point. Brooklyn’s Unconventional LoftOpera Takes on Puccini 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Opera needs a major makeover; the large opera houses are too in thrall to their conservative patrons. Portrait of the artist: Robert Lepage, director 2010-12-06T22:29:00Z Now its cultural life is booming, and nowhere more so than in its three world-class opera houses. Berlin on song 2010-04-03T23:06:00Z On Jan. 23 and 24, the opera house’s ever-inventive studio space will present “Murmur” and “Inked,” two short dance pieces, the second of which explores the meaning that tattoos carry for their holders. Performance Guide 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z The project grew out of interest from a German opera house, we learn, and a co-production with New York and London houses is pencilled in for 2013. Ian McEwan to make Atonement opera 2010-03-19T11:18:00Z Click to enlarge I wanted to capture how people behave in public buildings, so I started taking photographs of theatres, palaces, opera houses, libraries and the like. Candida Höfer's best photograph – an 18th-century theatre in Mantua 2013-02-06T17:15:32Z Ballet is bursting with vitality, spilling beyond the doors of its traditional homes in the great opera houses in London, Leeds and Glasgow. Ballet set to break out as 2011's most exciting art form 2010-12-05T00:03:00Z "Gareth Malone Goes to Glyndebourne" won in the arts programming category for its account of the staging of a new opera featuring untrained teenagers at the renowned British opera house. Britain wins 5 International Emmys 2011-11-22T03:11:18Z La Scala opera house announced last week that Daniel Barenboim would conduct Beethoven's Ninth symphony when the pope visits Milan on June 1. Muti to conduct Vivaldi, Verdi concert for Pope 2012-05-06T18:42:11Z For months, the Berlin State Opera, one of the world’s premier opera houses, has been in a state of uncertainty. Christian Thielemann to Succeed Daniel Barenboim at Berlin State Opera 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z But very few have dared to dream sonic images of such magnetic power as those that Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho has conjured in her music for ensembles, orchestra, opera houses, electronics and soloists. A guide to Kaija Saariaho's music 2012-07-09T15:01:23Z “I do have an understanding of how much pressure there is on the opera house, but to cut all dance is a choice I find very hard to take.” Dance Leaders Deplore Cuts in Belgium 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z In the opera house, Washington National Opera will stage new productions of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's "Show Boat" in May 2013 and Bellini's "Norma" in March 2013. Kennedy Center plans Nordic arts festival in 2013 2012-03-06T16:52:10Z Other leading opera houses, including in Munich and in Zurich, have also scrapped coming engagements. Netrebko Loses Work in Russia After Seeking Distance From Putin 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z The Metropolitan Opera, the nation’s largest opera house — indeed, its largest performing arts organization — paints a telling picture. Opera Can No Longer Ignore Its Race Problem 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z The Swedish pop star was at a tiny, low-key club tucked into Café Opera, a ritzy nightspot here inside a grand opera house dating to 1895. How Robyn, Pop’s Glittery Rebel, Danced Her Way Back From Darkness 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z The title character is a world-famous opera singer going to sing at the opera house in Manaus, a city in the middle of the Amazon jungle. Fall preview: From ‘Florencia in the Amazon’ to ‘Dragon Rhyme,’ fantasy resounds in D.C. It’s a little taste of Ballet Theater’s marginally more adventurous fall seasons of yore, offering up principal dancers as part of more democratic ensembles and sized to fit in the cavernous opera house. The Week Ahead: May 22 ? 28 2011-05-20T20:21:34Z Vaccinated children 12 and older could rehearse at the opera house, while those under 12 who could not get vaccinated rehearsed at a nearby church. Arts Groups Bet Big on Holiday Programming. Will Children Come? 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z "I hope this theatre will be seen as a naturally placed and naturally living cultural giant amongst those famous opera houses of the world." Russians hope Mariinsky II will revive Saint Petersburg as cultural capital 2013-05-02T18:04:03Z In terms of balancing artistic ambition with public sentiment, the opera house got it right with “Mulan,” which was about 80 percent full. Arts Playground Sprouts in China 2010-08-03T14:27:00Z The opera house announced the move on Friday. Soprano Netrebko pulls out of "not right" London 'Faust' 2014-02-28T16:42:21Z Before becoming an opera house regular, Whitman was a fan of lighter fare, in particular the Hutchinson Family Singers and minstrel shows. How Opera Inspired Walt Whitman’s ‘Leaves of Grass’ 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z The Pet Shop Boys have performed there, and the company recently struck a deal to make the opera house the Chicago home of the Joffrey Ballet, beginning in 2020. Opera Has a Problem: Fans Aren’t Subscribing 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z “Faust” was once ubiquitous in American opera houses, but today, there’s little context for it in our culture. Review | Overly sweet ‘Faust’ at Washington National Opera proves more cloying than addictive 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z But on Tuesday, the company — one of London’s two main opera houses — had a boost. Beleaguered English National Opera Announces New Artistic Director 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Marthaler had the curtain descend while soloists and choristers dispersed to various parts of the opera house, so that when they sang the entire theater filled with rejoicing. Review:"Williams Tell" celebrates all things Swiss 2010-12-10T12:08:00Z And it will venture beyond the walls of its opera house to collaborate with the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Public Theater. The Met Is Creating New Operas (Including Its First by Women) 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z But how many police commissioners send their law enforcement officials to the opera house for sensitivity training? ‘A Gun Show’ Raises Questions Beyond the Music 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Venice’s ornate opera house, La Fenice, has survived floods and been rebuilt after devastating fires. When the Show Must Go On, Even Amid a Coronavirus Outbreak 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Architecture is destiny, and what was interesting to me were moments that connected the opera house as a building with its legacy as a place where opera is made. Perspective | Passing of the torch at Met Opera’s midlife 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z The musical legacy of the nation’s oldest clubs may be as immense as that of any arena or opera house. Small Clubs Are Where Rock History Is Made. How Many Will Survive? 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z For sheer production values, “Michaels Reise” is as arresting as anything you will see in an opera house. Music Review: A Karlheinz Stockhausen Work Has Its North American Premiere 2013-07-19T21:29:24Z One reason opera houses have resisted “Emperor” is its brevity. Music Review: Oppressor?s Tale, Written in Oppression 2011-02-02T23:08:54Z I can't remember the last time I laughed so much at any opera house. Review: Seattle Opera's 'Barber' really cuts it 2011-01-17T21:39:14Z While “Treemonisha” has been recorded multiple times, in orchestrations that can accommodate a grand opera house or an intimate theater, it is far from a staple of the repertoire. A Pianist Strolls Her Harlem History, and Scott Joplin’s 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z The backlog of visa applications at American embassies and consulates has especially impacted classical music, with its focus on the top international stars who tour the world’s leading concert halls and opera houses. Review: After 20-month absence, Seattle Symphony music director back to conduct before a pumped-up crowd 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Hudson Hall is far from a traditional opera house; with no pit and seemingly indifferent acoustics, it was used in the 19th century for speeches by the likes of Emerson and Susan B. Anthony. Review: A ‘Rodelinda’ Brings Promise of Handel on the Hudson 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z Such a fragile promise of renewal and rebirth is perhaps an apt way to return to the opera house after the coronavirus pandemic. A King Arthur Rarity Is an Apt Way to Return to the Opera 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z Across the water is the new opera house, while towards the setting sun is Gråbøl's apartment building. The Killing: in cold blood 2011-03-31T07:00:00Z But the confirmation of the allegations presents a challenge not just to the stewards of the great opera houses, where he was a reigning superstar for decades. Perspective | Plácido Domingo’s reputation as a performer enabled the opera world to ignore his predatory behavior 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z A conductor bears more weight at a symphony orchestra, while an opera house has numerous moving parts. The Dilemma of James Levine and the Metropolitan Opera 2011-09-24T04:29:45Z So we found a guy who’s selling houses on Craigslist, we filmed inside the opera house because our friend runs it, we met this guy who’s driving a food truck around. “Detropia”: Can Detroit be saved? 2012-09-07T17:45:00Z With concert halls and opera houses closed around the world as part of bans on large gatherings aimed at curbing the coronavirus outbreak, what are homebound classical critics to do? When Coronavirus Cancels Concerts, Critics Put on Headphones 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z As cities around the world raced to build showpiece museums and opera houses in the ’90s, Zumthor built something timeless, Teutonic in its logic but sensuous, too. The 25 Most Significant Works of Postwar Architecture 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z The opera house is turning the facility into a sprawling, 237,000-square-foot complex of workshops, rehearsal studios and storage space called the Eiffel Art Studios. Hungary Turned Far Right. That’s Meant Millions for Its Opera. 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z And those nesting arches recall a familiar Australian opera house: when I told someone here that I was in town to see the new performing-arts center, he said, “Oh, the Sydney-looking one?” Critic?s Notebook: Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, Mo. 2011-11-20T19:25:33Z It won't be long before people will have, on demand, the world's great opera houses piped live into their homes. The Royal Opera on tour in Japan 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z Later this year, I begin my first Fest contract at an opera house in Germany. Your First Crush 2013-07-17T16:03:16Z But why can’t young people and their music be in opera houses or concert halls? For One Night, China’s Great Hall of the People Reverberates With Music 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z He agrees that an opera house must innovate, but questions the necessity of being radical or avant-garde. Vienna State Opera, ditched by star conductors, soldiers on 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z The center opened in 1971 and a young Diaz, now 81, actually performed at the grand opening of the opera house. Bette Midler, Berry Gordy among new Kennedy Center honorees 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z There's no question, though, that the opera house is best experienced at night. Move over, Sydney: Zaha Hadid's Guangzhou Opera House 2011-02-28T21:30:00Z “I’m glad I’m a countertenor, even though I can’t sing ‘Tosca’ at all the best opera houses and make my money with that,” he said in a recent interview at his Manhattan apartment. Handel and Philip Glass, but Make It Fashion 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z But she persisted, winning some of the loudest applause in recent memory, paying off her debts, fielding offers from opera houses around the world — and finding her voice as Brünnhilde. After a Soprano’s Crisis, a Brünnhilde Is Born 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z This made the Turkish military seem less fearsome than before, and European opera houses rather suddenly began staging operas about Turks. Muslims, Christians and Mozart: Seeking Harmony at the Met Opera 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Most concerts halls and opera houses are just too big. Let’s Get Intimate. Big Music Doesn’t Need Huge Halls. 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z Few opera houses still have a rigid dress code of the sort Terry Gilliam describes. It's not elitist to dress up for the opera 2012-10-04T09:48:12Z In front of the opera house before the show, patrons said they didn't believe Adams' work was designed to offend. Controversial 'Death of Klinghoffer' goes on at Met Opera House despite protests 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z A sampling of what will be heard at major opera houses in the next few months. The Disrupters 2013-12-26T19:52:24Z Connell then became a freelance artist with the major opera houses. Opera star Connell dies aged 65 2012-02-21T08:47:13Z Mr. Audi said that Rossini’s appetite for experimentation in this opera is so strong that “it’s almost as if he was pulling the elbows of the opera house saying, ‘Give me more!’” A Legend of the International Culture Scene Arrives in New York 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Berlin’s 178 museums, seven symphony orchestras and three opera houses are once again up and running. Berlin, Back in Full Swing 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z “Of course, at the beginning, I was looking around, and I was upset: ‘Why does this colleague sing this part with this orchestra in this opera house and why not me?’ Michael Volle’s Opera Profile Is Rising 2014-03-26T14:04:25Z While Ukrainian artists navigate the complexities of working with Russians of any stature, Western opera houses have been focused on a handful of high-profile stars entwined with Russia’s government. A Year Into War, Russian Artists Still Must Navigate a Tricky Path 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z The axis is so long that it had to be built in three sections so it could fit on the trucks that take it to and from the opera house; they were then bolted together. Retooling the Met Opera’s Problematic ‘Ring’ Machine 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z They do not come as easily when one encounters "Porgy and Bess" in its more usual home these days, the modern opera house. A bright new 'Porgy and Bess' 2011-05-22T20:41:53Z Beneath the arched entry to the opera house, an electrician was installing wiring to make some of the heavy front doors touchless. The Met Opera Races to Reopen After Months of Pandemic Silence 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z The Met and leading opera houses in Zurich and Munich have declined to hire her, despite her attempts to distance herself from Mr. Putin. Anna Netrebko, Shunned in Much of the West, to Sing in Monte Carlo 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z It may be understandable to cling to the operatic experiences of one’s youth, and to seek in the opera house not a reflection of, but an antidote to, the complexities of the outside world. Critic’s Notebook: Opera’s Sad Goodbye? How About, ‘Good Riddance’? 2013-12-30T22:21:55Z Not every major opera house is jumping on the cinema bandwagon. 2010-01-13T05:54:00Z There was the thrill of realizing my long-held dream of hearing Richard Wagner’s music in the opera house he built, where some of my favorite recordings were made. Watching Neo-Nazis in Virginia From a German Opera House 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z “It was great to hear where they struggled,” he says, “because I found that their struggles making the real opera house paralleled mine. The hardest part was the sails.” | The Shape of Things 2014-04-08T13:00:00Z The Met, she says, “is not a training house. … It’s an ‘I’ve arrived!’ opera house.” After overseas triumphs, soprano returns to Met Opera 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z A changing of the guard in Vienna, at one of the most important and busy opera houses in the world, would always be of interest to opera buffs. Sony Executive to Lead Vienna Opera 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Mr. Gelb said that he had long been trying to get Ms. Battle, who has moved away from opera and largely has pursued a recital career, to return to the opera house. You’re Unfired: Kathleen Battle Is Returning to the Met After 22 Years 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Showing great flexibility, he produced classics for the world’s most famous opera houses, from Milan’s venerable La Scala to the Metropolitan in New York, and plays for London and Italian stages. Italian director Franco Zeffirelli dies at age 96 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z Each painting is dominated by deep reds and golds, echoing the over-the-top interior design of the opera house and the palette of the nearby Chagalls — but “more gaudy and garish,” Ms. Brown said. Cecily Brown’s Paintings Are at the (Other) Met 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z For the next five years, the couple divided their time among New York, France and movie locations, devouring opera houses, museums, cloisters and cathedrals in what Ms. Bergen called “cultural clinics.” Candice Bergen on Love, ‘Murphy Brown’ and an Affinity for Food 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z WNO, like many other opera houses commissioning new work, appears to be honing its ideas about how to workshop a piece as this program continues to develop. At Washington National Opera, 20-minute operas are on the right track Or should the concert hall simulate the production values of an actual opera house? Music: New York Philharmonic Stages Ligeti?s ?Grand Macabre? 2010-05-21T19:40:00Z Last season the artist Elizabeth Peyton created a suite of works based on various characters in the “Ring,” filling every floor of the opera house, as well as Gallery Met. Inside Art: Kehinde Wiley?s ?Alios Itzhak? at Jewish Museum 2011-09-15T22:18:21Z Tiles falling off the facade of the opera house briefly closed the building last winter; it resumed full programming in late February. Valencia’s Newest Sounds of Music 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z “Anywhere inside, such as an opera house, is crazy,” says Richard Martin, who runs Scattering Ashes, an online advice centre and shop based in Devon. No to opera houses; yes to rivers – the dos and don’ts of scattering ashes 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z That something is difficult to fully appreciate in the opera house. Asian inspiration as L.A. Philharmonic tackles 'Pelléas'; Pacific Symphony 'Turandot' 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z In January, the former director of Valencia’s opera house was briefly detained by Spanish police, as part of an investigation into financial irregularities there. Málaga, Spain’s Self-Appointed New Arts Hub 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z “Since many leading opera houses around the world decided to continue to invite Mr. Domingo to perform on their stages,” it added, “the Israeli Opera saw no reason not to act in the same way.” Israeli Opera to host Placido Domingo despite protest 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z “Alexander fits with the profile of what Macron wants in France,” said Matthew Epstein, a veteran artist manager and opera house administrator. Running the Paris Opera Was Never Going to Be Easy. But Come On. 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Then we see an opera house, the audience arriving, musicians warming up. Sergei Polunin, Ballet’s Bad Boy, Has a Change of Heart 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z By contrast, the opera house seems almost serene – remarkable given that it's the latest design by Zaha Hadid, an architect celebrated for buildings that shoot across the urban landscape like bolts of lightning. Move over, Sydney: Zaha Hadid's Guangzhou Opera House 2011-02-28T21:30:00Z It is a piece that "deals with the terrorists and with the victims," says the opera house chief, "but in ways that delve deeply into both sides." Klinghoffer opera 'must be performed' 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z The matriarch performed her last solo concert just five years ago - when she was 87 - inside Hanoi's elegant French colonial opera house. Vietnam matriarch, now 92, spread piano culture 2011-02-27T17:16:04Z For more than a year, the opera house had sat still, as if frozen in time. The Met Opera Races to Reopen After Months of Pandemic Silence 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z And oh yes, it's high time yodelling was introduced into opera houses. Can opera singers sing pop ? and vice versa? 2011-07-28T22:00:03Z Without its regular ticket system, the opera house offered $50 general admission tickets for seats that usually cost several times that much, through a website set up by Lincoln Center. Met Opera’s Website and Box Office Are Back After 9-Day Cyberattack 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z Mr. Gossett considers this a butchered edition, seemingly intended for a “provincial opera house that couldn’t perform the music Rossini wrote,” as he explained in an essay for Das Bärenreiter-Magazin. Whose Version of Rossini? Scholar Disagrees With the Met 2011-04-08T19:41:26Z The people of Cologne, known across Germany for their friendly cheer, lose their bonhomie when it comes to the renovation of their opera house and main theater. Budget Blowouts and Delays Blight Germany’s Major Arts Projects 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z The ideal, if you can, is to get to know the opera first at home, then hear it in the original German in the opera house. Strauss: Ariadne on Naxos, Christine Brewer (Ariadne) et al, Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Armstrong 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z Several opera houses in the West German Rhein-Ruhr region could each stage a portion of “Licht,” with the public traveling from city to city to hear a different opera each evening. An Operatic Conundrum Untangled 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z Somehow we found ourselves back by the now-deserted fountain in front of the opera house. Single, and Surrounded by a Wall of Men 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z He was viewed as arrogant and ambitious — if blazingly talented — even in his 20s, when he rose through the provincial German opera houses of Düsseldorf and Nuremberg. One of the World’s Great Maestros Is Suddenly a Free Agent 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z Szilveszter Okovacs, the Hungarian State Opera’s general director, said that the current contract the opera house signed with the Gershwin estate’s agents, Tams-Witmark in New York, did not contain any clause specifying casting limitations. ‘Porgy and Bess’ With a White Cast Stirs Controversy 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Yes, the New York Philharmonic — because really innovative new opera, as I’ve said before, doesn’t seem to happen often in actual opera houses. Perspective | Reexamining opera, one classic at a time 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z A mammoth project for any opera house, the “Ring” was intended to both celebrate the Opera’s 350th birthday and as a suitably grand farewell to Philippe Jordan, its departing music director. Running the Paris Opera Was Never Going to Be Easy. But Come On. 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Not the least of the problems the cycle poses for conventional opera houses are its near-impossible logistical demands. An Operatic Conundrum Untangled 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z Ms. Bakanova has since made huge career strides, and she now has engagements in a range of international opera houses, London not least among them. Ekaterina Bakanova, an Opera Sensation Also Touched by Luck 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z Even in the higher altitudes of the opera house, tickets are still quite expensive — especially when it comes to enticing new generations who may be iffy on the whole idea of giving opera a try. The Met Opera Is Struggling. How Can It Fill Those Empty Seats? 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z The Met plans to throw open its gates and welcome visitors to the front of the opera house for free on weekdays beginning next month, the company announced Thursday. Come Check Out Our House, Metropolitan Opera Says 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z To his credit, Wang hasn’t used opera as a cheap comic vehicle for lawyer jokes, but he hasn’t yet decided if he really wants to write a serviceable work for the opera house. ‘Scalia/Ginsburg’: An affectionate comic opera look at the high court 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z Of course the lockout will not have its usual impact during the pandemic, when few Met stagehands are working; only a few dozen stagehands have recently been at the opera house, Mr. Gelb said. Metropolitan Opera to Lock Out Stagehands as Contract Talks Stall 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Gelb said on Thursday the opera house had decided to build its own sets and make its own costumes for that production, tasks the Bolshoi had been expected to handle. Anna Netrebko, Russian Diva, Is Out at the Metropolitan Opera 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Costanzo, 39, is a classical star whose luminous voice takes him to opera houses and concert halls around the world. A Cabaret Star and an Opera Star Walk Onto a Stage … 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z It was, Mr. Wenders said in a recent interview at the opera house, “a low point in my life.” Wim Wenders, Film Visionary, Makes His Operatic Debut 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z Theatres should take a lead from opera houses and stipulate that those who leave the room once the performance has started will not be readmitted until there is a break in the action. How A Quiet Place became a cause célèbre for anti-popcorn crusaders 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z But his supreme achievement, critics agreed, was constructing a new opera house — an act, as Oedipal as anything in opera, that entailed tearing down the one his father had built. George Christie Dies at 79; Steward of His Family’s Glyndebourne Legacy 2014-05-13T04:28:58Z It was perhaps an unusual setting to stage a comeback: Its 517-seat jewel box of an opera house is attached to the famous casino, with slot machines near the lobby. The Netrebko Question 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Officially, opera houses say they are concerned about safety. What Opera Singers Gained, and Lost, Performing While Pregnant 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z Wagner made it worse, overseeing the construction of an opera house in Bayreuth, Germany, that remains essentially a Wagnerian shrine. Trump Is Wrong if He Thinks Symphonies Are Superior 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z We are joined in the artwork, and if we've learned anything, it's about what we do when we leave the opera house, about how we want to live. Keith Warner on his Royal Opera House Ring Cycle 2012-09-26T19:00:02Z But he noted that attendance was in line with what other opera houses across the country were seeing these days, and that there were signs that the company was overcoming its recent setbacks. The Los Angeles Opera, Post-Plácido Domingo 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z The opera house has asked Mr. Goecke to explain his actions and said it would wait to hear from him before deciding on further steps, the statement said. Choreographer Smears Dog Feces on Critic After Negative Review 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z But what Lucerne, a city of some 70,000, still lacks in its bid for cultural primacy is an adequate opera house. Donation for a Lucerne Opera House Is in Dispute 2011-04-28T21:05:39Z Ted Huffman may well be the only American to graduate from singing in Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte” as a child to directing a new production of the work at one of Europe’s major opera houses. American Directors Bring Fresh Visions to Europe’s Opera Stages 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Here’s what happened, though: That overture segues directly into the work’s opening chorus, which is set in a church and which in the opera house always sounds anticlimactic after the overture’s majesty. Two contrasting concerts show best face of D.C. choral scene 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z But perhaps the best argument for visiting Munich right now is the Bavarian State Opera, which has emerged as one of the most exciting opera houses in Europe. 52 Places to Go in 2019 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z In financial statements, filed on Monday, the opera house listed net assets of $236 million, down from $380 million a year earlier. NY's Metropolitan Opera reports 2009 fiscal woes 2010-06-17T01:24:00Z Photograph: Erik Berg Ballerinas now appear, in tutus, to beguile the lone figure into the opera house. Stefan Herheim's Wagner revolution 2010-04-29T15:23:00Z There was a time when theatregoers regularly wore black tie and evening gowns – a practice still in operation at certain opera houses – but today's theatres are more than content with casualwear. Valentino thinks British theatregoers too casual 2012-11-29T16:02:16Z “In the beginning of my career, the singing was most important,” she said in a recent interview at the Berlin opera house. A Shape-Shifting Opera Singer, With a Debut to Match 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z The really big strategic issue facing us is that in the very near future there will only be three or maybe four big opera houses in the world. The Royal Opera on tour in Japan 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z But it is never boring, and its careful craft and expressivity have their own kind of honesty, particularly in the intimate space of Zurich’s opera house. In Europe, Opera Takes On Our Time 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Kim’s appointment marks the latest change in musical leadership at a major American opera house. San Francisco Opera names its first female music director 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Sonic suspense serves Czernowin well in the opera house — even when she seems hardly interested in traditional narrative. 8 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z The famed Milanese opera house announced its 2010-11 season on Friday including 15 operas, six ballets as well as concerts and tours in Belgium, Austria and Argentina - the biggest lineup in the last 20 years. Barenboim to conduct La Scala season premier 2010-05-21T15:33:00Z Mr. Pereira, who is scheduled to take over the Milan opera house on Oct. Deals by the Incoming La Scala Chief Cause a Stir 2014-04-16T21:38:56Z The museums can wait, and we don’t have to be back at the opera house for three hours. Zurich, for a Song 2010-09-24T18:42:00Z These days, you’re as likely to encounter her work in art galleries, stadium gigs, fashion shows or architecture expos as in theaters or opera houses. Es Devlin’s Next Stage 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Rattle is more likely to forge a series of special relationships with orchestras and opera houses that excite his interest. Simon Rattle is to leave Berlin: what next for him and the Philharmoniker? 2013-01-10T16:20:19Z The polonaise sounds characteristically stirring as conducted by Mariss Jansons in the Netherlands Opera’s new production, which marks the welcome return of the eminent conductor to an opera house. Opera Review: Traveling Through Time With 'Eugene Onegin' 2011-06-28T12:00:06Z For days, they have been loading in set pieces, hiding them in corners of the cavernous opera house so they can find them after the Met loads out. Never Missing a Curtain This Season, the Met Opera Takes a Final Bow 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z “We were more like a rock band than a theater company,” Mr. Ollé said in an interview at the opera house in Madrid, while showing old photos of his Fura days on his laptop. From Street Theater to Wagner on the Opera Stage 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z I'm not against public subsidy of the arts, if you want a first-class opera house you need some public subsidy. Tchaikovsky and tractors 2011-03-24T10:33:02Z Many singers said opera houses were beginning to be more attuned to the needs of singers who are traveling with children. What Opera Singers Gained, and Lost, Performing While Pregnant 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z The frescoed ceilings in the auditorium and statues of composers adorning the entryway are typical of a 19th-century Italian opera house; residents say that the quality of the performances it hosts match their gilded surroundings. Overnighter: Bergamo, Italy, a Medieval Town of Art and Architecture Near Milan 2010-12-18T04:30:22Z The Met is also having sopranos augment the voices of its children’s chorus in some productions, such as Mussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov,” since under-12 chorus members are not currently permitted inside the opera house. ‘The Nutcracker’ Returns, With New Rules for Children 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Rehearsals, preparation and performances at an opera house are more spread out over time. Levine to Leave Boston Symphony 2011-03-02T23:29:59Z This meant I had slightly more space and a head-on view of the Palais Garnier opera house. Check In, Check Out: Hotel Review: W Paris-Opéra 2012-06-01T19:32:43Z “An Italian Dream,” the poetic movie shown at the iconic La Scala opera house, was more than an unexpected collaboration between music and fashion. Special Report: 'An Italian Dream' of Shoes and Dance 2010-09-24T18:03:00Z In the 1980s it helped raise funds for the Pasteur Institute and in the 1990s for a Venice opera house destroyed by fire. Sean Penn opens wallets for Haiti at Cannes gala 2012-05-19T12:48:07Z The restored opera house is a cultural center with exhibits, music, workshops and lectures year-round. In New York’s picture-perfect Hudson Valley, the right balance of art, presidential history and food 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Anna Kisselgoff wrote in The New York Times that it was “a superspectacle in the grandest of grand opera house traditions.” Dance: Natalia Makarova?s ?Bayad?re? at Ballet Theater 2010-05-13T14:34:00Z Perhaps the most remarkable — and one of the oldest — is the Paris Opera Ballet’s, housed in the Palais Garnier opera house. At the Paris Opera Ballet, Changing the Shape of Couture 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z But when Zaha Hadid's new opera house in Guangzhou opened in early March, her name was added to a growing list of high-profile names that is glaringly void of Chinese talent. Is China's Architectural Ambition Leaving Its Own Talent Behind? 2011-04-13T20:20:00Z The Met wasn’t anywhere near Ms. Davidsen’s radar as she grew up in small-town Norway, where the nearest major opera house was almost two hours away by train. A ‘One-in-a-Million Voice’ Arrives at the Met Opera 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z From Beers to Sopranos The Wetherspoon pub in Kent, England, returns to its origins as an opera house — for a day. In Transit Blog: Walkabout: Sept. 11 Museum Opening in May; Analyzing Faces at the Airport 2014-03-24T19:10:09Z In the stagehands’ absence, the opera house fell into some disrepair. The Fate of the Met Opera’s Fall Season Lies in Its Orchestra Pit 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z And, as I've mentioned before, if we wanted to give every schoolchild the chance to go to the opera once a year, we'd need to build 22 more opera houses. Love opera. Don't fall into the trappings trap 2010-05-27T21:00:00Z The concept has already begun to attract the attention of other European and American opera houses. Opera North tackles Wagner's Ring Cycle – minus the financial dramas 2012-06-12T16:15:28Z Newsreel drama can help to overcome the musty odor that inhabits many opera houses. A Witness Sees History Restaged and Rewritten 2011-02-11T19:47:04Z She was heard in the rebuilt opera house for the first time that Dec. 26 as Octavian in Strauss’ “Der Rosenkavalier.” Mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig dies at 94 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z And since 2014, the secular oratorio “Le Vin Herbé,” Martin’s pared down but poignant take on the Tristan legend, has been mounted by opera houses in Boston, Chicago and Long Beach, Calif. Interest Grows in a Master of Choral Mystery and Power 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z The musicians were scheduled to return to work on Monday for their first official rehearsal since the pandemic closed the opera house in March 2020. Met Opera Reaches Deal With Orchestra, Paving Way for Reopening 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z This is one of the great 19th-century opera houses and its central place in Russian culture includes both czarist coronation celebrations and Communist Party policy announcements. Critic’s Notebook: A Transformed Theater in a Transformed Land 2014-04-07T21:27:21Z Encores in opera houses are different than they are in concert halls, where artists usually respond to ovations by showing off something new. Pacifica Quartet Presents Shulamit Ran Premiere and Classics 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z Though “Othello” is now played almost exclusively by black actors — except at the opera house — its directors are more often white. Review: In ‘American Moor,’ an Insider’s Guide to ‘Othello’ 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z He arrived at the opera house before 4 p.m., and one of the first questions he asked the stage director, Sarah Ina Meyers, was, “Is there any sword fighting?” Michael Fabiano’s 7 Hours From Call to Stage at the Metropolitan Opera 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z In a memorable 1957 shot taken backstage at the Teatro Colón, the main opera house in Buenos Aires, she captured a look of surprise on the face of a shirtless Louis Armstrong. Lisl Steiner, Colorful Creator of Black-and-White Photographs, Dies at 95 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z Fifty years ago, instead of concert halls and opera houses, the Upper West Side was an ethnic slum and Bernstein and Sondheim set West Side Story in the tenements that once stood here. America's composer 2010-06-19T23:01:00Z Then stroll along the new waterfront promenade, Havnepromenaden, which loops past the angular opera house and its sloping white roofs. 36 Hours in Oslo 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Over the decades, Mr. Kildea said, Britten’s contribution to opera has gradually become more a part of the repertory in French opera houses. A British Opera, Still Gathering Fans, Arrives in Paris 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z But the production itself - the ugly sets, the sly and slimy sexual innuendos and the unfortunate drowning out of Radames - was so toxic that I've never been back to that opera house. Behind the Scenes of ‘Tosca,’ the Messiest Production in Met History 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Marriages of the more legally binding variety are far rarer at the opera house. An Operatic Love Story Starts Off on a Sour Note 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Jürgen Flimm, who led some of Europe’s most important theaters, opera houses and performing arts festivals over the last 40 years, died on Feb. 4 at his home in Wischhafen, Germany, northeast of Hamburg. Jürgen Flimm, Director of Festivals and Opera Houses, Dies at 81 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z Yet Boulez mellowed over time, and became a revered figure at leading opera houses and orchestras, working within the system to improve it rather than exploding it. Esa-Pekka Salonen Says Tweak the Orchestra, Don’t Blow it Up 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z At any given time, very few dramatic tenors of any race or background are considered capable of singing Verdi’s demanding — some would say voice-killing — role Otello in a large opera house. An ‘Otello’ Without Blackface Highlights an Enduring Tradition in Opera 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Among other projects, she designed the aquatic center for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, museums in Cincinnati, Glasgow and Rome, an auto plant in Germany and an opera house in China. Zaha Hadid, Pritzker-winning architect of defiance and drama, dies at 65 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z This year marks the 10th anniversary of the company’s gleaming modern opera house, and the celebrations kick off in earnest with a new ‘‘Magic Flute.’’ What's On This Week Around the World 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z That, and a visit to New York to check out Gallery Met and the opera house itself, motivated him to create four paintings, one based on the cycle, that will be on view from Sept. Inside Art: Kehinde Wiley?s ?Alios Itzhak? at Jewish Museum 2011-09-15T22:18:21Z The audiences tended to be energetic and enthusiastic — but they were coming to see work on a different scale than a typical opera house, and with different content. At an opera festival, tales of drug cartels. At opera houses, same old song. 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z The show returned to its annual December slot, providing nearly four hours of tribute performances and speeches to more than 2,000 guests, who packed the opera house in shimmering gowns and tuxedos. A Kennedy Center Honors With the Presidential Box Used as Intended 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Enescu’s only opera, it had its premiere at the company’s smaller, ornate Palais Garnier in 1936, but has never been revived there, even as other opera houses took a belated interest in it. With a Rare ‘Oedipe,’ the Paris Opera Pulls Together 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z “One of the hallmarks of the range of any new music director in a major opera house is, at some point, having a ‘Ring’ cycle to call your own,” Gelb said. The Stakes Are Sky-High for a ‘Ring’ Coming to the Met Opera 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Those should be folded into what we present in an opera house because otherwise, frankly, we’ve been presenting the same titles, the same small body of work, for literally a century. An Opera Diva and a Broadway Star Trade Places, and Advice 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z It is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a good fortune, boundless determination and a wife who is a singer must be in want of an opera house. George Christie Dies at 79; Steward of His Family’s Glyndebourne Legacy 2014-05-13T04:28:58Z The first opera in the United States was staged there, and in the years between Reconstruction and Jim Crow a number of opera houses featured casts of color. Jazz and Opera Come Together in ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z In the face of concerns about the future of the art form, opera houses are commissioning one new work after another. ‘Appomattox’: A new version of a new opera 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Some of the property’s buildings are creepily decrepit, while the opera house itself has been lovingly restored by Ms. Becket, with elaborate murals, vintage seats and a backstage stuffed with costumes. Journeys: Death Valley: Three Million Acres of Weird 2011-10-28T18:55:00Z “There is always a risk, when a Western opera house is portraying a different culture, that it can make missteps, and that the level of authenticity is not quite as high as it could be.” Saying Yes to Puccini, but No to His Stereotypes 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z While the jukebox format is common enough on Broadway, it is much rarer in opera houses. Lend Me a Jukebox Opera. Yuks and Tenor Required. 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z With music sales declining, artists, record labels and even opera houses are being more inventive in order to encourage fans to fork out. 2010-01-28T08:21:00Z He also defended the choice of Smith as a subject for a major new production at one of the world's top opera houses, pointing out that many mainstay opera heroines led far-from-exemplary lives. Anna Nicole Smith to crash genteel world of opera 2011-02-15T12:23:12Z The move in to 3D by the UK's leading opera houses reflects the runaway success of opera at the pictures which was pioneered by the Met in New York. English National Opera and Sky to produce first live 3D opera 2011-01-08T00:06:42Z French, German and Italian opera houses began to host artists from around the world. Putin Says Tchaikovsky Is Being Canceled. The Met Opera Disagrees. 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z Along with features on other opera houses, performers of past eras and festivals, it also publishes critiques of performances around the world by knowledgeable and respected reviewers. Opera News Will Stop Reviewing Metropolitan Opera 2012-05-22T03:06:11Z All of this activity is because of Noseda, who is popular with audiences, critics, orchestras and opera houses and who is ever more in international demand. He was supposed to be finishing Julliard. Now this young trombonist is helping to remake the NSO. 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z We know that he travelled to Manaus and its opera house in the rainforest, the Teatro Amazonas, but we don't know much more about how Elgar filled his days on the Hildebrand. Beyond the Malverns: Elgar in the Amazon 2010-03-25T22:15:00Z At the second performance Wednesday in Santa Fe’s glorious outdoor opera house, where performances begin during resplendent desert sunsets and “RSJ” was warmly received on a warm evening, I found it a winning opera. The man, the machine and now Steve Jobs, the opera 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z At Sunday night’s program, Stephen Colbert served as host of the event, which will be broadcast by CBS on Dec. 29 and which was held in the Kennedy Center. opera house. Stormtroopers and a Muppet at the Kennedy Center Honors 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z Traditional orchestras and opera houses are struggling to keep up funding, ticket sales, and audiences — and to figure out how to present new work, which is essential to any art form. At an opera festival, tales of drug cartels. At opera houses, same old song. 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z She grew up doing her homework in opera houses, surrounded by people in costume, she said, and dreamed of becoming a painter. Film: ?The Runaways?: The Girls Who Kicked In Rock?s Door 2010-03-12T04:40:00Z His ideas were embodied in his opera house, Bayreuth Festival Hall in the German state of Bavaria, which put an end to the construction of horseshoe-shaped theaters in the late 19th century. What’s in the box? Demystifying box seats and tips on finding the best seats for the opera and symphony. 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Saudi Arabia will one day open cinemas and build a world-class opera house, the man spearheading the kingdom’s entertainment reforms said on Thursday, downplaying opposition by powerful religious authorities to changes they see as sinful. Saudi entertainment chief sees cinemas returning, eventually 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Since then, he has sung it in more than 20 opera houses. A Plus-Size Falstaff Grows Into His Outsize Part 2013-12-04T22:49:20Z "A billion riyal opera house ... yes it's a good development for the country but it is outsiders who attend, not Qataris." Qatar trims cultural plans as tradition and budget pressures weigh 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z On March 15, Mr. Kraft hung out backstage while Meek Mill performed at the Met Philadelphia, a recently refurbished opera house. Robert Kraft Awaits Your Judgment: ‘I Am Truly Sorry’ 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Incongruously garbed in their Viking/Valkyrie costumes, they discuss life's disappointments on cigarette breaks outside the opera house. Review: 'What Rhymes With America' is quirky fun 2012-12-13T01:43:08Z Conducting in the pit is just the tip of the baton for opera house music directors. The Dilemma of James Levine and the Metropolitan Opera 2011-09-24T04:29:45Z The manager of the opera house declined, and the Italian government, which subsidized the opera house, ordered her replaced. Anita Cerquetti, Opera Fill-In Who Soared, Dies at 83 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z In Houston the next day the temperature was around 65, and “The Nutcracker” was being staged in a grand 1980s opera house next to a bayou. Critic?s Notebook: ?Nutcracker? Nation: Yes We Can! 2010-12-08T23:32:00Z The union, Local 1 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, which represents stagehands, carpenters and electricians, was the third of the opera house’s three major unions to reach an agreement. Metropolitan Opera Clears Last Hurdle in Labor Talks 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Stuttgart may be in the provinces, but it is one of the best-equipped opera houses artistically and technically. REVIEW: Gripping New 'Katya' Is a Bright Achievement for Collaborators 2010-05-25T13:00:00Z “The opera houses are always the most stringent customers.” ‘The Opposite of Airlines’: When Larger Audiences Require Fewer Seats 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z Together, they will make up “Imaginary Portraits,” a show running from Jan. 31 through May 10 at Galerie Met, in the south lobby of the opera house. Inside Art: Dutch Bonanza for the Frick 2014-01-17T08:46:14Z “Every time you pass the entrance of an opera house and see the women with fur coats and the men in black tie, that makes a younger public take a step back,” Mr. Ollé said. From Street Theater to Wagner on the Opera Stage 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Sixteen years passed between the selection of the Danish architect Jorn Utzon’s design for an opera house in Sydney Harbor and that building’s completion in the early 1970s. The 25 Most Significant Works of Postwar Architecture 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z Margo Maier-Moul, a stage manager, makes a phone call to ask how many patrons are still lined up outside the opera house. Never Missing a Curtain This Season, the Met Opera Takes a Final Bow 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z Though this is the model at many opera houses, City Opera long maintained a full-time orchestra. Identity Shifts for New York City Opera 2012-06-01T14:12:32Z That’s the insurmountable flaw of the project, and the main reason it doesn’t belong in an opera house. Review: Marina Abramovic Summons Maria Callas in ‘7 Deaths’ 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z He produced classics for the world’s most famous opera houses, from Milan’s venerable La Scala to the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and plays for London and Italian stages. “Romeo and Juliet” director Franco Zeffirelli dies at 96 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z The trouble began earlier this month when a new interim general manager, Tiberiu-Ionuț Soare, took over at the opera house, which is home to the ballet. Romanian Ballet Company Loses Its Leading Lights 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z Kentridge, 56, is so prolific it sometimes seems he is everywhere: directing opera in New York, mounting a mixed-media retrospective in Paris, projecting a video onto a curtain at Venice's main opera house. Artist William Kentridge on stage in South Africa 2011-09-17T12:29:12Z With many opera houses and concert halls, particularly in the United States, still closed by the coronavirus pandemic for months to come, the musical action has moved online. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in October 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Munich plays host not only to one of the best opera houses in the world, but also to one of the best orchestras: the Bavarian Radio Symphony. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z But on Tuesday — with Nézet-Séguin making his first appearance at the opera house this season, nearly two months in — the Met’s orchestra brought muscular energy to what could easily turn turgid and syrupy. Review: In ‘The Hours,’ Prima Donnas and Emotions Soar 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z "Old opera houses were blank, you had to go through the wall, and there was a mystique," he told The Associated Press. Mariinsky celebrates 150 years, looks to future 2010-09-17T02:16:00Z The artist proves himself no less adept at the characteristic motion of a very different kind of theater, the stately, self-possessed, classicizing motion of the opera house. Review | Yes, Toulouse-Lautrec was an alcoholic cabaret creature. But his art ranged far beyond the demimonde. 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z These innovations sharpened the characters’ relationships; I wish an opera house could incorporate them once in a while. A jazzed-up ‘Carmen’ goes where Carmens have gone before 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z The Met is asking audiences to take a new perspective even before they enter the opera house. The Complex History and Uneasy Present of ‘Porgy and Bess’ 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z He has based this new City Opera staging on his successful 1982 production for the company, an extensive revision that came to be known as the opera house version. Review: The Adventures of ‘Candide,’ and of City Opera 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z The “dark” night means that the opera house is likely to lose several hundred thousand dollars at a time of financial struggle. When They Cancel a Performance at the Met, There's a Good Reason 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z The opera house says La Scala's former musical director intends to launch a new project with La Scala in the near future. Claudio Abbado's illness cancels La Scala return 2010-05-24T08:52:00Z Domingo said he is due to begin rehearsals for "Simon Boccanegra" at Italy's La Scala opera house in two weeks, according to the Los Angeles Times. Placido Domingo back at work after surgery 2010-03-26T18:57:00Z With time, I began to understand him, that he didn’t want to just replicate a Western-style opera house. In Burkina Faso, Rebuilding With a Local Touch 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Two hours upriver from New York City, in an old opera house on the main drag of Hudson, N.Y., the festival culminates this weekend with nightly performances from some of straight-ahead jazz’s finest. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z “Regina” is one of those American operas — like George Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” and Kurt Weill’s “Street Scene” — that had their premieres on Broadway and have faced uphill battles at opera houses. Susan Graham, Opera’s Sweetheart, Tries Something New: Being Nasty 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z It’s a question that the opera house is answering in detail in a tour that runs through Aug. 12. London Tours Explore the Worlds of Opera and Classical Music 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z There’s much to be said for the stagione system in use in many European opera houses, in which only one production runs at a time. The Met Opera Is Struggling. How Can It Fill Those Empty Seats? 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z That will double the workload that Mr. Levine, the Met’s music director, took on this season, when he first returned to the opera house to conduct three productions from his wheelchair. Levine to Tackle Six Operas for the Met 2014-02-12T22:42:40Z Situated in the town of Athens’s former opera house, Crossroads Brewing names its beers after local landmarks. In New York’s picture-perfect Hudson Valley, the right balance of art, presidential history and food 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z The opera house is getting rid of it in an overhaul that also will see antiquated technical equipment replaced. Berlin's Staatsoper sells off seating 2010-06-04T17:16:00Z In addition to her performances at the most illustrious opera houses of the world, Ms. Dobbs participated in a milestone close to home. Mattiwilda Dobbs, pathbreaking operatic soprano, dies at 90 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Ryan belonged, however briefly, within one of the greatest opera houses in the world. Sing for Your Life 2011-05-20T16:00:31Z The Staatsballett, though one of Germany’s leading ballet companies, is still relatively young: It was founded in 2004 through a consolidation of the dance troupes from Berlin’s three opera houses. Staatsballett Berlin Leaders to Leave Prematurely 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z The curtain rises to reveal the actual 17-ton wood temple, which had to be disassembled piece by piece and reassembled on the stage of the opera house at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Review: Handel’s ‘Semele’ Comes With Sumo Wrestlers at BAM 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Homoki, who leads the opera house in Zurich, said he would not require Russian artists to condemn Moscow, given the pressures they might face at home. Too Close to Putin? Institutions Vet Artists, Uncomfortably. 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z Since the opera house went dark, it has posted a free stream from its vast Met Opera On Demand library every night. How the Met Opera Is Throwing a Gala Concert With Smartphones 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z The Teatro Regio appears to be dealing with the current austerity better than most Italian opera houses, perhaps because it is the only one with an Italian conductor of international stature as music director. In Italy, Even Verdi Has His Say 2011-03-22T13:00:07Z In three years, he said, she attended every rehearsal in the opera house, watching and listening. Pretty Yende, a Soprano From South Africa 2013-02-01T22:37:34Z In the opera house, the gesture becomes a radically enhanced and potentially dangerous èpater le bourgeois. 'Exterminating Angel,' the most anticipated opera of the year, proves it's here to stay 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z She went on to star in the great opera houses in Paris, London, Vienna and beyond. Joel, Santana to receive Kennedy Center Honors 2013-09-12T16:31:51Z As they arrived, three bomb blasts threw their carriage onto its side, hurled spectators into the street and blew out windows in the opera house and surrounding buildings. An Opera House Inspired by More Than Music 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z My true calling is to be a performer, to be onstage and having a spotlight and 3,000 people fill an opera house. What Has Lockdown Meant for L.G.B.T.Q. Artists and Writers? 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z He said the new theater would allow the company to perform in the months when San Francisco Ballet is dancing at the opera house, while fostering an emerging repertory. San Francisco Joins the Growing World of Small Operas 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z When in 2014 she donated to an opera house in Donetsk, a war-torn city in Ukraine controlled by Russian separatists, she was photographed holding a separatist flag. Met Opera Ordered to Pay Anna Netrebko $200,000 for Canceled Performances 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Now, after a two-decade exile from American opera houses, “The Death of Klinghoffer” has returned to the stage in a new production by James Robinson, part of the Opera Theater of St. Louis summer repertory. Music Review: ?Klinghoffer? Returns, to Be Debated Anew 2011-06-17T22:32:42Z Looking through the other end of the telescope, we see the last year in 89 objects; everything from opera houses to typefaces. What are the best Designs of the Year? 2012-02-08T14:35:00Z Though it had a brief currency in major European opera houses after its successful premiere at the Paris Opera in 1883, it never really caught on. ‘Saint-Saëns and His World’ at Bard 2012-07-20T17:08:16Z Seven years later, Currentzis was named artistic director of the opera house in Perm, an industrial city of just under a million people in the Ural Mountains. Teodor Currentzis Brings His Intense Verdi to New York 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z After being overlooked by U.S. opera houses, Lear won fame in Vienna singing the title character in Alban Berg's "Lulu." Opera star soprano Evelyn Lear dies at 86 in Md. 2012-07-03T20:49:20Z Kirschenbaum reigned as the grande dame of a group of hard-core fans who populated standing room at the opera house and would flock to the stage door for autographs. Opera’s Biggest Fan Leaves Behind a Sprawling Time Capsule 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z “Klinghoffer” places enormous demands on an opera house chorus, and the Met’s great choristers threw themselves into every scene. John Adams’s ‘Death of Klinghoffer’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z For that, you can thank the impossibility of creating one-size-fits-all sets for the world’s leading opera houses, muddled administrative leadership and a strained friendship. On the Way to the Met, a ‘Meistersinger’ Is Stranded in Europe 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z It was in Aspen that she first performed the role of the Countess in Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro,” which she later made her debut with at the Metropolitan Opera and other top opera houses. Renée Fleming to Lead Opera at Aspen 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z After the coronavirus pandemic forced concert halls and opera houses to close this spring, online performances proliferated. The Met Opera Tries to Find Paying Customers in a Pandemic 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z Berkeley said he was approached last summer by a German opera house - which he declined to name - over the potential for an Atonement opera. Atonement opera in the pipeline 2010-03-19T12:38:00Z "Candide" will be directed in a new staging next January by Harold Prince, who also was in charge of the work's first expanded opera house production at City Opera in 1982. NYC Opera announces 1st full season after bankruptcy 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Transfer that to London, factor in the figure of £47m annually handed to its opera houses by the government, and you get a hefty subsidy per operagoer per year. How I fell out of love with opera 2010-05-27T21:00:00Z Against the backdrop of a white wall — blank except for a door and a flickering fluorescent light — the opera house stage feels particularly vast. Review: Making an Epic Visual Impact With Minimal Means 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Cojocaru: We were caught in the middle of a power struggle between the previous management and the new management of the opera house. After Bucharest, a Ballet Power Couple Move On 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z It was important for the opera house in Munich that they brought back audiences very quickly, even if it was just 500 people. Bryn Terfel Returns to the Metropolitan Opera. (Sort Of.) 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Kramer, an American director, had never held a position at an opera house before his appointment in August 2016, but he was brought in to revamp the organization. Daniel Kramer Quits at English National Opera 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z So I did stop and I thought: 'You've chaired a museum, raised money for a museum, you're about to chair an opera house and you've been on the board for that for a time.' Peter Bazalgette: 'Maybe I don't qualify as great or good' 2013-02-24T00:06:07Z Even London’s most enthusiastic admirers may be surprised at how much material has been discovered in radio, television and opera house archives, all of it gathered here in a 90-minute collection of indispensable performances. Music: George London Foundation Contest Set for Morgan Library 2012-02-12T15:44:19Z These have resulted in less public money for many opera houses, which have long relied on large public subsidies. Turin Opera’s Music Director Threatens to Leave 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z It is only one example of French colonial architecture in Hanoi; others include the cathedral and the opera house. In Vietnam, Street Food Moves From Sidewalk to Storefront 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z We cut past the Grand Theater, said to be modeled after the old opera house in Paris; Charles Boyer and Maurice Chevalier performed there in the 1930s. Cultured Traveler: Call It Beyrouth: Beirut With a French Accent 2013-08-30T15:17:56Z Its atmosphere is comparatively down-to-earth — there’s no red carpet at the opera house — but also, by design, the programming is more contemplative than star-struck. In Europe, Opera Takes On Our Time 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Created by Ashton in 1946 as his first work for the Covent Garden opera house, today “Symphonic Variations” is danced all around the world. ‘Symphonic Variations’: A Frederick Ashton Classic Returns 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z One chorus, at main stage level, portrayed the Sicilian peasants, while another chorus of French soldiers and socialites occupied the loge and balconies of the stage-set opera house. Long overdue Verdi "Vespers" makes powerful Royal Opera debut 2013-10-18T17:31:20Z When major figures in opera die, the Metropolitan Opera sometimes pays tribute to them with memorials at the opera house. A Memorial for Jessye Norman at the Met Opera, Where She Reigned 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Ms. Hadid won the contest, but her opera house never got beyond the model and design stage. Zaha Hadid, Pritzker-winning architect of defiance and drama, dies at 65 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z “I got a lot of offers for other opera houses, but it was clear for me not to go into another big institution.” The ‘Prince of Opera’ Bids Munich Farewell 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z This was Nézet-Séguin the extrovert, who deploys the orchestra in the opera house like an instrument of fate, keeping the baseline volume at mezzo forte. Review: The Met Opera Orchestra Raises a Glorious Noise 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z Those characteristics suggest that the original may have been used as part of the continuo in an opera house or a church, Mr. Phillips said in a postconcert discussion. Artek Celebrates the German Harpsichord 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Labor official Giancarlo Albori said workers from opera houses in Genoa, Rome, Florence and others will attend the protests on Tuesday. Unions to protest at La Scala's gala premiere 2010-12-07T12:57:00Z “I lived through one of those,” he continued in an interview in the patrons lounge at the opera house. Season Rescued, the Met Tackles an Oddly Resonant ‘Figaro’ 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z And to acknowledge that we in the darkened opera house, standing, applauding, cheering, were alive. Best Classical Music of 2021 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z At an opera house in Essen, Germany, unsung assistant conductors and a British import get to shine. Levine?s Injury Causes Headaches Around the Musical World 2011-09-21T12:00:22Z That was one of four performances at the opera house that I watched in a single weekend in early January, during the first Omicron wave. At the Met This Season, Opera Was Icing on the Cake 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z He and Mr. Nézet-Séguin are planning to bring new works to the Met, collaborate with other New York institutions, and sometimes perform works outside of the opera house. Peter Gelb’s Contract Is Extended at the Metropolitan Opera 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z It warns of falling ticket revenues, a weakened endowment and concerns about spending from donors, whose contributions cover nearly half the opera house’s budget, which is more than $300 million a year. Not Over Till Overtime’s Due? Met Labor Strife Bares Secrets 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z You also can’t help noticing that this kind of work, tinged with the flavor of the experimental and the contemporary, remains outside the purview of most American opera houses. ‘Written on Skin’ brings theater to opera stage 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z Situated near the Palais Garnier opera house, this stylish hotel attracts a fun local crowd for after-work drinks, dinner and nightly entertainment. In reopened Paris, creative energy and festive euphoria set the mood 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z “The ghosts of the Palais Garnier were with us,” he recalled of the city’s ornate opera house. Japanese Theater Inspires a New Opera of Celestial Textures 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Likewise, if opera houses were to embrace more contemporary work, there would be less pressure on directors to reinvent “Figaro” and “Tosca.” The Berlin Philharmonic Searches for a Messiah 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Misha Aster, the author of a history of the opera house, said in a phone interview that the loss of national patronage still smarts. Berlin’s State Opera Has Served Kings, Presidents and Dictators. Now What? 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z By pushing forward, the Met’s leaders hope to signal that the opera house can get through the turmoil of the pandemic and beyond. Scrambling but Undaunted, the Met Opera Sings Through Omicron 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z Piotr Beczala is one of the leading lyric tenors of our day, delighting audiences with his dashing and sensitive performances in opera houses worldwide. A tenor in his element performs Romantic songs in Vocal Arts DC recital. 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z “It’s sad to lose a great artist,” said Mr. Erikson, who is based in Texas but is a frequent visitor to the opera house. Plácido Domingo Leaves Met Opera Amid Sexual Harassment Inquiry 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z It is always heartening to see a general director of a major opera house putting faith in a composer. Music Review: Mark Adamo’s Opera Makes a Wife of Mary Magdalene 2013-06-20T22:14:00Z "The drama, which was created for a 3,000-seat opera house, you are getting in the Broad, a 500-seat house," he says. Opera is here to stay, says 'Dead Man Walking' composer Jake Heggie 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z He has done much to try to open up the most exclusive of British opera houses to a broader public, and is extremely well-liked. Who should take over at the Royal Opera House? 2012-11-23T12:01:00Z In response, in 1931 he was beaten by Fascist thugs outside the opera house in Bologna, and his passport was taken from him. A Life of Toscanini, Maestro With Passion and Principles 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Ollé first stepped into an opera house when he was 18 — not as a spectator, but as an extra in a Barcelona production of “The Soldier’s Tale,” by Igor Stravinsky. From Street Theater to Wagner on the Opera Stage 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z All of the major unions at the opera house had called on the Met to find savings elsewhere, and the orchestra, in particular, made a list of proposed cuts central to its negotiations. In Met Opera Deal, Both Sides Give 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z Mahler, however, might be the better composer to hear Ms. Young conduct, given what she is known for in her long-established career at opera houses and concert halls abroad. Review: Absent 20 Years, a Conductor Rescues the Philharmonic 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z In the 19th century, composers transcribed orchestral and operatic works to enable a wider audience to enjoy, in salon settings, the new scores being performed at concert halls and opera houses. Review: Parlor-Style Mozart From the Ariel Quartet 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Moll’s 6-foot-2 frame was made to measure for many of the basso profundo roles he came to own on the stages of the world’s leading opera houses. Kurt Moll, German Basso Profundo, Dies at 78 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Frankfurt and Stuttgart are also planning major upgrades to their opera houses. Budget Blowouts and Delays Blight Germany’s Major Arts Projects 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Before she got sick, they had worked their way across Europe, singing at all the big opera houses. He’s Going Back to His Former Wife. Sort Of. 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Fellini cuts from the Sheik’s failed seduction to enthusiastic applause in the opera house where Ivan attends a performance of “Don Giovanni.” ‘The White Sheik’: Fellini’s Charming Farce About Fandom 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z Gelb’s Netrebko decision wasn’t universally praised, and other major opera houses now seem to be inclined to welcome her back, classifying her as merely a prominent Russian, not a hardcore Putinist. At the Met This Season, Opera Was Icing on the Cake 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z Brown said he tried to bring different layers to the world of the opera house.. A darker, grittier 'Phantom of the Opera' haunting Pantages 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z The acoustically absorptive wall panels are made of pleated, perforated metal designed to look like the curtains typically found in Italian opera houses in the 1920s. Renovations That Seek to Put Film Out Front 2011-05-15T21:56:16Z That motif, in countless manifestations and transformations, runs through the entire work, a five-hour evening at an opera house. Readers Name Some Favorite Musical Surprises of Their Own 2014-04-25T14:00:02Z La Scala in Città will be repeated this September on a larger scale, including the young singers of the opera house’s academy, ballet school and children’s choir. La Scala Woos a Younger Audience 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z But his tenure had rocky moments: The opera house’s music director, Franz Welser-Möst, abruptly quit his post in 2014, citing “irreconcilable differences of opinion regarding the company’s artistic planning and profile.” Sony Executive to Lead Vienna Opera 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z For a moment, there was silence in the opera house. Taking Stock of James Levine’s Tarnished Legacy 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z The wedding moved its way up through the opera house level by level. An Operatic Love Story Starts Off on a Sour Note 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z It is an opera house in Kyiv and it is being held up. ‘Tenet’ Review: Christopher Nolan’s Time-Bending Take on James Bond 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z What the opera house sacrificed in participatory fervor, it partly offset with clear acoustics that revealed every particle of Super Étoile’s syncopation. Youssou N’Dour Performs at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z Buses, trams and taxis headed for the Telenor arena are branded with the Eurovision logo, and there are special events at the national ski arena, the opera house and even the Viking ship museum. Reporter's log 2010-05-28T13:09:00Z Dance companies, like orchestras and opera houses, must tend to an enormous repertory of classics. Just Why Does New Music Need Champions? 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z It is she who seizes the moment of a chance meeting, outside the Covent Garden opera house where she sells violets to the swells, to make changes she has clearly been imagining for years. Review: Whose ‘Fair Lady’? This Time, Eliza’s in Charge 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Even a lavish production in a large opera house can conjure up a childlike sense of wonder. Peter Brook reduces Mozart to bare essentials 2011-07-07T06:31:08Z It’s a challenging yet apt assignment for the Met debut of Jakub Hrusa, a rising Czech maestro who’s already a regular with American orchestras, if not yet with American opera houses. The Met Opera’s New Season: What We Want to See 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Linehan is an impresario of varied taste and background, used to working in theatre and the opera house, but also with strong experience running a financially stable festival. A new flavour for Edinburgh festival as Fergus Linehan is appointed director 2013-04-22T10:55:54Z The Met, one of the world’s leading opera houses, is among the latest cultural institutions to extend its closure due to the pandemic, which has hit live theater especially hard. 'Carmen' and coronavirus don't match: NYC's Met Opera closed till December 31 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z The award for best world premiere was won by the favorite, "Written on Skin" by George Benjamin which premiered at the Aix-en-Provence festival in France before runs in several major opera houses. Frankfurt, Kaufmann, Stemme top opera honors 2013-04-22T21:52:58Z A spokeswoman for Duesseldorf's opera house said there would only be concert performances without theatrical staging. Nazi-themed opera canceled in Germany 2013-05-09T11:29:09Z It is little more than a home base between stints at the world’s most prestigious opera houses. Soprano He Hui Is Blazing a Trail for China's Opera Singers 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z The government recently started an architectural competition for a new cultural complex that will include a 1,600-seat opera house, library and exhibition space in an area built during the French mandate. Critic?s Notebook: Preserving Heritage, and the Fabric of Life, in Syria 2010-12-26T22:35:14Z Conductors, even the music director, are not day-to-day fixtures in an opera house. Donald Palumbo, a Met Star in the Wings 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Last week, the conductor cancelled the rest of his scheduled performances of Verdi's La Traviata at the Met in New York for what the opera house calls "personal reasons". How Leonard Slatkin blogged an opera disaster 2010-04-05T11:47:00Z As London’s “second” opera house, ENO was always competing for audiences with the much-better funded Royal Opera House, just a few blocks away, he added. For This Opera Director, a Lot Is Riding on a ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z The opera house and the composer were circumspect about why the project, which was more than a decade in the making, had been called off. Osvaldo Golijov’s New Opera for the Met is Called Off 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z With its waterfront position and optimistic thrust, the Elbphilharmonie also brings to mind Sydney’s opera house — another landmark building that was criticized and derided during its construction for overrunning budgets and missing deadlines. Finally, a Debut for the Elbphilharmonie Hall in Hamburg 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z That didn’t turn the opera house into a carnival, but the music got people up and dancing. The Night New Orleans Came to Brooklyn 2010-12-05T23:06:00Z It was marvellous to hear him bring the shading and care with words that are the hallmarks of his Lieder singing into the opera house. Tannh?user ? review 2010-12-12T17:49:00Z By all means go to the major opera houses and hear big, grand operas. Curious About Classical Music? Here’s Where to Start 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Just outside its gilded auditorium, which has been empty since the pandemic forced the opera house to close a year and half ago, stagehands were reupholstering some worn red velvet seats. The Met Opera Races to Reopen After Months of Pandemic Silence 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z These days, Mr. Maestri is in demand from opera houses all over the world; Ms. Maestri said they had spent only around 40 days at home this year. A Plus-Size Falstaff Grows Into His Outsize Part 2013-12-04T22:49:20Z A decade after its company premiere, it still looks fresh and earns the kind of enthusiastic laughter rarely heard in an opera house. Review: Verdi’s Falstaff Is Back at the Met, Enlarging His Kingdom 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Strauss, defeated by the bombing of Germany’s opera houses and the collapse of its culture, nonetheless had music left in him, including his Horn Concerto No. 2 and the “Four Last Songs.” Review: ‘The Silent Woman,’ an Opera About Putting on an Opera 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z The Met plans to offer written materials about the opera house and said that a tour guide would be available to discuss the company and the building. Come Check Out Our House, Metropolitan Opera Says 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Bergonzi performed in opera houses around the world, including London’s Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, and steadily increased his reputation as an insightful interpreter of the Italian canon. Carlo Bergonzi, celebrated Italian tenor and interpreter of Verdi, dies at 90 The Teatro Real spokeswoman said the opera house would investigate what she called “a lamentable incident.” Madrid Opera Shut Down by Audience Angry at Crowding in Cheap Seats 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z "Licitra represented the school and tradition of Italian song, in his natural relationships to words," the Milan opera house said. Italian tenor Salvatore Licitra dies in Sicily 2011-09-05T18:21:10Z It also suggested the lobby of Charles Garnier’s 19th-century Paris opera house, a soaring space where the public is as much a part of the spectacle as the works being performed onstage. Architecture Review: Gehry Design Plays Fanfare for the Common Man 2011-01-23T19:50:38Z Luc Bondy, a Swiss-born stage director whose productions, known for their shrewd probing of human behavior and attention to acting subtlety, were featured in Europe’s most prestigious theaters and opera houses, died on Saturday. Luc Bondy, Swiss-Born Theater and Opera Director, Dies at 67 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Standing in a dressing room in the opera house in Montpellier, France, in May, the soprano Maya Kherani tugged at the waistband of her tiered skirt. What Opera Singers Gained, and Lost, Performing While Pregnant 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z Certainly the Met has not evolved into a New York outpost of a German opera house, with radically avant-garde productions the norm. Spidey Syndrome Invades the Opera 2011-05-21T23:00:26Z Ostensibly, the program was divided into two main parts: sober music for the concert hall, opera house and church, and sassy pieces for the music hall and the ballroom. Music Review: Zubin Mehta Leads Final Concert in Festival 2014-03-17T22:11:13Z “Her presence would do honor to any opera house in the world,” The Evening Bulletin said. Fiora Corradetti Contino, Opera Maestra, Dies at 91 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Boe is a sell-out success in both opera houses and musical theatre, but he says watching opera "is not really his world", as he prefers performing. AUDIO: Alfie Boe: Opera bores me stiff 2011-06-04T23:25:06Z One boss bringing in the previous boss is highly unusual at an opera house, or anywhere, for that matter. 2010-02-06T05:43:00Z Large performing arts organizations, like orchestras and opera houses, do not have a particularly good track record, historically speaking, of supporting artistic exploration and innovation. Perspective | When artists take over programming, do audiences benefit? 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Italy’s culture minister, Dario Franceschini, made headlines last week when he said that Italy’s 14 publicly financed opera houses were “too many” to handle. Riccardo Muti’s Departure Is a Sign of Rome Opera’s Troubles 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z La Scala, which is considered one of the world’s most prestigious opera houses, hosts its audiences in four tiers of loges and has dazzling acoustics from a concave channel beneath the wooden orchestra floor. A Fall Season of Debuts, Returns and Farewells 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Its exhibitions are on view at both the Villa Paloma and the Villa Sauber, a belle époque structure on the harbor designed by Charles Garnier, the architect best known for his opera house in Paris. Journeys: Monaco Adds Art to Its Seaside Allure 2012-04-06T19:37:00Z Graying audiences: the subject causes great concern to opera houses, which fear that the number of people in their seats will dwindle as fewer young people become interested in the art form. ArtsBeat: Met Backtracks on Drop in Average Audience Age 2011-02-17T21:37:54Z And with the jury including directors of many European opera houses, the event is prime for talent scouting. Opera prize to Bulgarian soprano, Romanian tenor 2010-05-03T06:50:00Z The Operalia prizes are decided by a jury of prominent leaders from opera houses around the world. Placido Domingo says Operalia prizes 'went to the right people' 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z In 2002, a Fulbright fellowship brought her to Berlin to conduct research about the city’s three opera houses. American Directors Bring Fresh Visions to Europe’s Opera Stages 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Not long afterward, realizing that it was best not to be attached to a single opera house, she moved to Italy and started singing in regional Italian theaters in Calabria, Sicily, Tuscany and elsewhere. Ekaterina Bakanova, an Opera Sensation Also Touched by Luck 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z André Comploi, a spokesman for the opera house, said in an email that it did not appear to be an intentional slight. ‘Tosca’ Pauses When a Diva Misses Her Cue on Vienna Stage 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z German cultural officials, who play a critical role in managing the opera house, did not respond to requests for comment. Daniel Barenboim, a Towering Maestro Held Back by Illness 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z What chance now the company putting on a Ring cycle, a Trojans, a Meistersinger, productions that defined Scottish Opera as an internationally important opera house? The band plays on ? part-time ? but Scottish Opera is sinking 2010-09-17T11:04:00Z During his career, Tear appeared at opera houses around the world. Welsh tenor Robert Tear dies at 72 2011-03-29T13:22:09Z He took on projects ranging from private homes to opera houses, as long as the job fit his sensibility. Bing Thom, Canadian Architect, Dies at 75 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z The emperor, already hoping to replace the Salle Le Peletier, decided to build a new opera house in a more open area with a secure entrance. An Opera House Inspired by More Than Music 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Still, Chailly quickly rose through the ranks of Europe’s opera houses and orchestras, and just eight years later he became the surprise music director appointment of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. Why America got it wrong on Riccardo Chailly and how the Italian conductor is proving it 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z By the time the opera house opened in 1973, it was more than 10 times over budget. Frank Gehry's new building looks like five scrunched-up brown bags 2011-01-09T22:30:00Z This was less a bold venture in genre-blending than a pragmatic attempt to make “Semele” suitable to both the opera house and concert hall. Review: Handel’s ‘Semele’ Comes With Sumo Wrestlers at BAM 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z The director of the opera house, Christoph Meyer, said his company had not meant to offend, and that its purpose had been to "mourn, not mock" victims of the Holocaust. German Nazi-themed opera cancelled after deluge of complaints 2013-05-09T11:32:15Z In the mid-1990s, Hadid won a competition to design a new opera house in Cardiff, Wales. As concerns about the purpose of the building and its budget hit the press, xenophobic remarks began to surface. Why we talk about Zaha Hadid's gender and ethnicity even though her architecture transcended both 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Instead, thanks to Toyota, the city of Orange now houses an ideal opera house, potentially the best in the West and maybe even something more. Musco Center's sound decision pays dividends in hall's debut 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z It is also a signature role, but never an easy one, especially at an opera house as prestigious as La Scala. A Busy Baritone Gets Ready for a New ‘Rigoletto’ 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z Few, if any, would say it looks like an opera house. Does Paris Still Have the Ugliest Opera House in Europe? 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Reportedly the entry into Valhalla fizzled for those in the opera house, when a part of Mr. Lepage’s giant set mechanism failed to function on cue. Share Your Thoughts 2010-09-28T18:15:00Z The town's fine Matcham-designed opera house regularly hosts a couple of bespoke festival productions, as well as several touring shows; standards are generally high and there is always at least one rarity among them. This week's new live music 2010-07-02T23:06:00Z The new opera houses sprouting throughout Europe sparked a thirst for repertory, which necessitated frequent revivals along with new works. ?The Enchanted Island,? a Baroque Mash-Up at the Met 2011-12-22T15:38:19Z We are at the most amazing, beautiful venues across the country — every PAC, every opera house. Trying to Be Stars, Like the ‘Jersey Boys’ They Portrayed 2012-08-12T03:00:24Z The number of productions at the Coliseum, the company’s home theater, was reduced to eight from 11 for the 2016-17 season, so that the opera house could be rented out at other times. English National Opera C.E.O. to Step Down 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Domingo’s Operalia, an annual opera singing competition, will take place at Tel Aviv’s opera house from Oct. Israeli Opera to host Placido Domingo despite protest 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Inside the opera house, people will be required to wear face masks, except when they are eating or drinking in the limited areas where that is allowed. Met Opera to Mandate Booster Shots for Staff and Audiences 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z He has also made a colorful “Siegfried” banner that will hang outside the opera house, starting on Oct. Inside Art: Kehinde Wiley?s ?Alios Itzhak? at Jewish Museum 2011-09-15T22:18:21Z Barenboim said in his statement on Friday that his time at the opera house had inspired him “musically and personally in every respect.” Daniel Barenboim, Titan of Conducting, Steps Down in Berlin 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z While in Bayreuth, all three are sharing a house a few miles from the opera house. Painting Wagner: Celebrated Artists’ New Work for the Opera Stage 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Up on the screen, patrons at opera houses, theaters and concert halls were settling into their seats, their upturned faces a mirror of our own. Critic’s Notebook: In ‘The Clock,’ You Always Know the Time 2012-07-16T20:15:34Z He continues to be sought after by the major opera houses, and true to the opera world’s five-season planning cycles, his schedule has him booked through 2021. The Operatic Tenor Juan Diego Flórez Shifts His Tone, and His Persona 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z The city recently renovated its opera house and National Gallery. Melania Trump’s Ljubljana, Then and Now 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Part of the arrangement of allowing us to shoot in and around their opera house was to actually use the Vienna orchestra and to record in their preferred venue. ‘Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation’ (With Movie Trailer): Christopher McQuarrie Narrates a Scene 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z The opulence of the banks and department stores, the culture of the theaters and opera house – especially in the predominantly Jewish district of Leopoldstadt – inevitably stirred deep resentment. Salman Rushdie not first novelist to suffer assassination attempt by someone who hadn’t read book 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z The performance on Monday night at the opera house here was packed with audience members from all over Europe as well as locals. A Pina Bausch Revival at Tanztheater Wuppertal 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z A microbrewery is scheduled to open in the newly renovated opera house in town. 1810 Timber-Frame House for Sale in Athens, N.Y. 2010-06-24T21:30:00Z “The air conditioning system is hopeless,” said Rory Jeffes, the leader of Opera Australia, who for many years was managing director of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, which plays in the opera house. The Sydney Opera House Goes Quiet. Finally. 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z The strike is part of a long-running drama involving Italy’s main opera houses, which are almost all dependent on government financing and frequently suffer labor stoppages or the threat of them. Strikes Silence Italy?s Opera Houses 2010-05-04T23:05:00Z Several opera houses around the world canceled appearances by Domingo and the Los Angeles Opera, where he is general director, said it would start an independent investigation into the accusations. Spanish opera star Placido Domingo apologizes to women after harassment claims - report 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Sir George Christie, the former chairman of Glyndebourne opera house and festival, has died aged 80. Former Glyndebourne chief Christie dies 2014-05-07T16:10:50Z The Ring is enough to bring any international opera house – let alone a tiny outfit in the sticks – to its knees, financially and artistically. Bringing Wagner to Gloucestershire 2010-07-22T22:06:00Z Pop studied music in Romania, and made his international debut at the Rome opera house in the role of Alfredo in "La Traviata." Opera prize to Bulgarian soprano, Romanian tenor 2010-05-03T06:50:00Z There were restaurants, advertised as cafés, as well as opera houses and polo grounds. The Marked Woman 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Twice, she said, she fought against the decay, the rampant bureaucracy, the corruption: first as the dean of the ballet institute and then briefly as the first director of the new opera house. A Ballerina’s Story, Once Upon a Time in Egypt 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z An exhibition highlighting the 1966 inaugural season at Lincoln Center will open in the Founder's Hall of the opera house on Sept. 26. Happy Birthday, Dear Met! Opera marks 50th at Lincoln Center 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z He went on to design operas, ballets and dramas, holding positions in Salzburg and Vienna and then working in leading opera houses around Europe and the world. Günther Schneider-Siemssen, Opera Stage Designer, Dies at 88 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z “It was so beautiful, and I was so in it that I couldn’t stop crying,” she said recently in an interview at the opera house here. A Soprano Has a Goal for Her New ‘Manon Lescaut’: Don’t Cry 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z I am just there to help make it happen, whether working with musicians in an opera house, a concert hall or even a prison.” ?Attila? and Muti in Debuts at the Met 2010-02-19T18:03:00Z He subsequently began designing, and from 1957 was chief milliner at the Covent Garden opera house, quickly learning how much singers hate wearing hats. Peter J Hall obituary 2010-06-24T18:00:00Z Nearly everyone asks the same questions when they enter an opera house for the first time: Who sits in those seats, up high on the sides of the theater? What’s in the box? Demystifying box seats and tips on finding the best seats for the opera and symphony. 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z We were at the opera house in Spokane, Washington, and we wanted to try out some of the new songs. The Oak Ridge Boys and their famous baritone are still going strong 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z But “The Hours” gave it a jolt of energy: More than 40 percent of ticket buyers had never set foot in the opera house. The Met Is Planning a Big Bet on Contemporary Opera 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Today, at 38, she lives her life as an operatic superstar on the stages of the great opera houses, from Vienna to New York, Milan to London. Anna Netrebko: 'I can make Manon ... bad' 2010-06-17T21:10:00Z Mr. Shilvock, who worked with Mr. Gockley at the Houston Grand Opera and followed him to San Francisco, already runs some of the thorniest operations in the opera house. San Francisco Opera Picks Matthew Shilvock, an Insider, to Be Its Leader 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Rehearsals, preparation and performances at an opera house are spread over a greater period of time. ArtsBeat: James Levine to Resign as Music Director of Boston Symphony Orchestra 2011-03-02T20:26:46Z He was appointed in 2016, despite having never held a senior position at an opera house, and many critics complained that some productions under his watch were not up to scratch. Beleaguered English National Opera Announces New Artistic Director 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z She even included something audiences are unlikely to hear in the opera house: an early setting of the Habanera that Bizet was persuaded to replace by the first exponent of the role, Célestine Galli-Marié. Elīna Garanča – review 2012-10-03T16:33:50Z The pages that followed detailed a rich array of upcoming performances, from band concerts in Mankato, Minn., to the opening of a new opera house in Bangor, Maine. The 1918 Pandemic’s Impact on Music? Surprisingly Little 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z Directing for the opera house is a discipline with its own distinct demands, and the scale of the Metropolitan Opera’s stage adds another troublesome factor to the challenge. Spidey Syndrome Invades the Opera 2011-05-21T23:00:26Z One thing that I love is this notion that an opera house now, particularly around the country, can also perform these artistically aspirational music theater pieces. An Opera Diva and a Broadway Star Trade Places, and Advice 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Then, in 1928, he became the music director of the New York Philharmonic, and never ran another opera house. Gustavo Dudamel Hasn’t Conducted Much Opera. That’s OK. 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z Even if he was best known for his visionary symphonies and never wrote an opera, Mahler did most of his conducting in opera houses. Gustavo Dudamel Hasn’t Conducted Much Opera. That’s OK. 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z This newcomer not only offered a vision unlike any seen previously in New York, but also pulled it off without any sets or props — or, for that matter, an opera house. Ivan Fischer Returns to Mostly Mozart With ‘Nozze di Figaro’ 2013-08-09T18:45:43Z Couldn’t Junior build the opera house for them? Rockefeller Center’s Art Deco Marvel: A Virtual Tour 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z He regaled the couple with tales of the storied building’s history as an opera house and a speakeasy whose Prohibition-era patrons included Al Capone. Bittersweet Memories of Grand Prospect Hall 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z Not that Mr. Youn and Mr. Lee are the only Koreans working in Western opera houses. Music: Standing Small, Singing Big, All Sulfur and Zest 2011-02-20T02:01:27Z Spanish is still a language rarely sung in mainstream opera houses. Review: ‘Ainadamar’ Turns Lorca Into Death-Haunted Opera 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z It is then, as Vienna prepares to open its new postwar opera house with an ex-Nazi on the podium, that we are explicitly asked to consider the connected problems of historical memory and premonition. Review: In Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt,’ a Memorial to a Lost World 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z Just as in the opera house, video transmission involve the unexpected, though often in different forms. 2010-01-13T05:54:00Z Or that a Cantonese opera house was up and running in Seattle by the early 1880s? 'Before Seattle Rocked': music history as social history 2011-10-27T20:10:05Z The third, the 190-seat Jewel Box, was modeled after a European opera house, Mr. Houghton said. Signature Theater?s Plans Shift, but Gehry Remains 2010-03-15T21:51:00Z Arts editor Will Gompertz talked to Sir George Christie, former chief executive of opera house Glyndebourne, about winning a lifetime achievement award. AUDIO: Do we need another opera award? 2013-04-22T08:56:14Z It is too big, too acoustically compromised and too much an opera house. 'Show Boat' keeps rollin' along fine style in San Francisco 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z A former soldier who spent nearly two years as an American prisoner of war, Fischer-Dieskau was a regular fixture at opera houses in Berlin, Vienna and London and at New York's Carnegie Hall. Baritone Fischer-Dieskau dies 2012-05-18T13:13:52Z The stage pictures — a man fleeing a violent storm into a world of frightened, lost souls living with suitcases packed, ready themselves to flee — indeed seemed to resonate with current events outside the opera house. Full-Scale Wagner Returns to Europe With a Refugee-Theme ‘Walküre’ 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z Q: These are tough times for cultural institutions, particularly expensive operations like an opera house, due to budget cuts. Lyon Opera's Dorny wants to stand out from crowd 2011-06-09T16:54:47Z In five years, Schlather went from directing experimental productions at a gallery space on New York’s Lower East Side to working at one of Germany’s leading opera houses. American Directors Bring Fresh Visions to Europe’s Opera Stages 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Like the United States, Egypt did not have a permanent national-scale ballet company until the 1950s, although it had a grand opera house in Cairo. Magda Saleh, Influential Egyptian Ballerina, Is Dead at 79 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z But after a national state of emergency was lifted last summer, Madrid’s opera house reopened, alongside many other theaters across Spain. ‘Peter Grimes’ Sails on Choppy Seas of Brexit and the Pandemic 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z To use it today would be seen as a radical act of antiquarianism in the opera house. Put a lid on the operatic Viking helmet cliché 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z She sang at opera houses across the country, including at Washington’s Carter Barron amphitheater, and around the world. Licia Albanese, acclaimed opera soprano known for ‘Madama Butterfly,’ dies at 105 And all this because the local Elks put the old scenery away when they bought the opera house in 1901, and everybody just forgot about it. A Hidden Trove Gives a Glimpse of Opera in the Wild West 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z We were only allowed to use the Vienna opera house for a short period of time. ‘Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation’ (With Movie Trailer): Christopher McQuarrie Narrates a Scene 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z It’s a smart idea to connect the opera with a larger social conversation outside the opera house. A powerful opera about a horrible subject 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z If you were starting from scratch, I'm not sure you'd put two large-scale opera houses a mile apart in central London. The cash-strapped ENO must take a long, hard look at itself 2013-01-18T12:32:13Z Asked which character he most identified with in the show, he said: “These days, I guess the owners of the opera house.” Andrew Lloyd Webber Plays the Hits 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z Ballet Theater is the only company that plays this oversize opera house; as both actors and dancers, most of its performers would be suited to theaters half the size. Many Giselles, but Only One Osipova 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z Those channels of communication may open up as more singers enter the administrative suites of opera houses. What Opera Singers Gained, and Lost, Performing While Pregnant 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z “I am very proud of it. I think it’s been seen a lot both in the opera house with multiple presentations and also in movie theaters,” Gelb said. Met Opera, ENO to coproduce Wagner’s Ring by Richard Jones 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z At the end, when she teared up, so did I. We have all sometimes taken opera, and opera houses, and opera singers, for granted. The Met Opera’s At-Home Gala: Informal Yet Profoundly Moving 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z It’s both understandable, and a touch disappointing, that the festival’s clearest success was also the most traditional production: McBurney’s “Wozzeck” could have come from any major opera house. The Ups and Downs of Europe’s Most Interesting Opera Festival 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z |
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