Donizetti News

The tenor aria "Pour mon ame" is just over two minutes long. Aside from a couple of interesting harmonic turns, there's nothing really remarkable in its composition.

Bryn Terfel arrived in the capital armed with countless sneers and as many ways to make mischief.

Donizetti wrote Maria di Rohan for Vienna in 1843 following on from the success of Linda di Chamounix in the same city.

Donizetti's 1836 opera about the Siege of Calais in 1346-7 had only a brief outing during his lifetime, limping along in the Neapolitan repertoire for four years before vanishing completely until it was revived in modern times.

The Elixir of Love It takes over an hour and a half before the magic potion finally takes effect at Houston Grand Opera and Gaetano Donizetti 's sparkling opera starts to fizz.

Saturday, October 31, 2009 The Damrau Effect Maybe it's Diana Damrau's fault. Five years ago, in June, 2004, I attended a performance of Arabella at Covent Garden.

The Tri-Cities Opera hopes its mix of productions and cost- containment measures will lead to a successful 61st season.

On their free days in San Francisco, the most illustrious singers can be found in the most unpredictable places.

Many opera-goers assume that, because Donizetti stuck to the conventions of aria, cabaletta, duet and large ensemble, his operas are formulaic.

Russian soprano Ekaterina Siurina says she's thrilled to be making her Houston Grand Opera debut in Gaetano Donizetti's The Elixir of Love - especially since it's the season-opening production.

Former Syracuse Opera artistic director Richard McKee sings the role of Dr. Dulcamara in an excerpt from Donizetti's "The Elixir of Love" when Oswego Opera Theatre opens its season with a potpourri of operatic works.

The Vermont Philharmonic's annual opera gala has become a hit with audiences because the area has become enamored with opera - and because it was such a good concert.

Opera seems an unlikely portal to a new column on books. Still, a recent evening at an Atlanta production of The Elixir of Love , Donizetti's long and silly little love song, left me thinking more of reading and readers than of bel canto , lovely as it is.

At a time when many arts and performance organizations are contracting, Rochester Aria Group is expanding as it prepares for an 11th season of presenting opera selections in Rochester.

The Best of San Francisco Stage, Film, Fashion, Dining, Travel, Business, Philanthropy, and Governance - Challah Is Taken Friday 16th of October 2009 DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT - " A Hit for SF Opera 15 October 2009 By SeA n Martinfield Sentinel Editor and Publisher Photo by Lynn Imanaka Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment is not among the great ...

He is a Polish-born tenor Piotr Beczala. Although Mr. Beczala made his MET debut two years ago, he has been making waves on opera stages worldwide since his unexpected substitution in Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" at the MET last year.

NIGHTS AT THE OPERA Peabody Opera takes on three French pieces--Jean-Philippe Rameau's Adonis , Christoph Willibald Gluck's L'ivrogne corrige , and Gaetano Donizetti's Rita --Oct. 19 in the school's Miriam A. Freidberg Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m. The program, entitled Opera Potpourri: A Trio of One-Act Operas in French, is part of Free Fall ...

Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Florez made the NY Times front page last year by instantly reprising the most perilous aria in "Daughter of the Regiment," hitting all nine high C's not once, but twice in a row.

San Francisco Opera presents Gaetano Donizetti's comic opera La Fille du RA©giment , opening October 13th with six subsequent performances through October 31st at the War Memorial Opera House.A Tenor Juan Diego FlA3rez sings Tonio , a role that made history for him when he sang an encore of his rendition at the Metropolitan Opera.

Musicologist Mary Ann Smart will provide an in-depth look at Donizetti's opera, "The Daughter of the Regiment," at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct.