Opera in the 20th Century

This class has truly been a pleasure for me to organize and teach, thanks to the hard work of this group of students. I will do some final c...

For our final class, we invited a panel of speakers for a Round Table Discussion on the topic "Opera in the 21st Century: The Business ...

Of course, we did not have class this week. I direct you to a post at Ionarts ( The Phoenix , November 23) on the reopening of La Fenice op...

Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992), Saint François d’Assise (premiered at the Opéra de Paris in 1983). Available at Amazon: Olivier Messi...

Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953) composed more than ten operas , not all of them completed. Ljubowk k trjom Apelsinam [The Love of Three Or...

Any of you students who saw the latest productions from the Washington National Opera — Il Trovatore and the zarzuela Luisa Fernanda —plea...

Available at Amazon: Philip Glass, Einstein on the Beach (recorded in 1993) Philip Glass (b. 1937), Einstein on the Beach The ope...

At Christopher Hapka's Web site, usopera.com , you can find lots of information on the history of opera in the United States. That histo...

Available at Amazon: Ernst Krenek, Jonny Spielt Auf , Lucia Popp, Evelyn Lear, Thomas Stewart, Vienna State Opera, conducted by Heinrich ...

I draw your attention to the following posts related to our subject at ionarts : Remembering the Second Viennese School , October 18 Fiat L...

After our work on John Corigliano's opera The Ghosts of Versailles in class (see October 8: The Ghosts of Versailles and the posts aft...

Turandot Giacomo Puccini ACT I: Peking, legendary times. In a quarter swarming with people near the Forbidden City, a Mandarin reads an ed...

Italian composer Giacomo Puccini's last masterpiece before his death, Turandot, the opera that salutes the power of love. Giacomo Puc...

The two operas we will examine this week were premiered within a few months of one another in 1925 to 1926, both conducted by legendary cond...

The Ghosts of Versailles was premiered in 1991 at the Metropolitan Opera , New York, and revived there in 1994. It was then produced in 199...

From ionarts ( Leoš Janáček , August 2) : Here is an interesting article ( Back to the old country , July 26) by John Tusa in The Guardia...

Beauty – Handsomeness – Goodness So much has been written about the “interview Chords” in Billy Budd and although one is loath to rev...