Mots-clés Archives: Rossini

Don Giovanni – W.A. Mozart Set in the Spa­nish Catho­lic socie­ty of the 17th Cen­tu­ry, it places the flam­boyant free­dom-loving sedu­cer in the most moral­ly repres­sive envi­ron­ment pos­sible, but Don Gio­van­ni’s refu­sal to repent makes him one of the first great modern anti-heroes. Ted­dy Tahu Rhodes pulls on his thigh length boots once more to sing the role which he …

Admi­rée autant pour son éblouis­sante pré­sence sur scène que pour son éton­nante musi­ca­li­té, la sopra­no Isa­bel Bay­rak­da­rian a sui­vi le plus per­son­nel des par­cours. Elle réus­sit à  mêler à  sa car­rière inter­na­tio­nale d’o­pé­ra une enviable série de réci­tals, de concerts avec orchestre et de pro­jets cinématographiques. Applau­die aux opé­ras de Salz­bourg, Paris, Chi­ca­go, Toron­to — entre autres — dans des …

In an artis­tic coup for our natio­nal ope­ra com­pa­ny, Richard Hickox conducts a new pro­duc­tion of The Tales of Hoff­mann direc­ted by Stuart Maun­der and fea­tu­ring one of Aus­tra­lia’s most exci­ting artists, Emma Mat­thews, playing four dif­ferent roles to create Hoff­mann’s ulti­mate woman. The star­ry-eyed Hoff­mann is entran­ced by Olym­pia, sedu­ced by Giu­liet­ta and obses­sed by fra­gile Anto­nia, and when he …

VERDI – Il Trovatore Jul 2007 Tue 3rd to Aug 2007 Sat 4th Il tro­va­tore is set in fif­teenth-cen­tu­ry Spain but the com­po­ser was living through the chao­tic Ita­lian poli­tics of the late 1840s. Elke Neid­hardt’s pro­duc­tion, upda­ted to the Spa­nish Civil War, demons­trates how ope­ra speaks the lan­guage of revo­lu­tion, wha­te­ver the era. Welsh-born tenor Den­nis O’Neill is the trou­ba­dour Man­ri­co, …