Double-bass Player Bow(l)s Them Over
Anna Netrebko
Women Scorned: The Met’s HD Anna Bolena and the Fury That Wasn’t
The White Tower, within the famed Tower of London complex
The Met’s Anna Bolena shows Anne Boleyn was the bigger man.
Critics ‘Tut Tut’ Soprano for…Smiling
Anna Netrebko in Anna Bolena
Reaction to Ovation Breaks Character-Ruins the Moment, Critics Say Soprano Anna Netrebko was singing the incredibly difficult title role in Donizetti’s Anna Bolena. The final scene begins with the aria “Al dolce guidami,” its final note slowly diminishing to nothing. The audience exploded in cheers that went on far longer than is usual at the [...]
Anne Boleyn…The Opera!
Anne Boleyn (1503?-1536) on her last day referred to herself as 'Anne sans-tete'
Donizetti’s Anna Bolena opens the Metropolitan Opera’s 128th season. Anna Netrebko inherits the title role from Maria Callas, Beverly Sills, Leyla Gencer and Joan Sutherland
Classical Headlines: New York Philharmonic on the Move (Maybe)
Jason Weinberger, resident conductor of the Louisville Orchestra. The orchestra is a focus this week of positive stories as it plans to emerge from bankruptcy.
Todays classical headlines include more on the musical journey out of bankruptcy for the Louisville Orchestra, a (possible) temporary home for the New York Philharmonic and last-minute cancellations on the Met’s upcoming tour of Japan.
‘Song to the Moon’
The moon shines over Sydney Opera House. Many operas use moon metaphor and imagery to communicate ideas.
There’s a very bright and large full moon in March; it will still be some 211,600 miles away, but, perhaps, spectacular enough to approach the kind of moon that resides in the mind of the artist, writer or composer, for whom it always seems to appear rather overlarge and magnificent.
