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Yesterday | PilotOnline.com

'Regiment' tenor hits the high C's

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.

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Related Topix: Opera, Gaetano Donizetti, Arts, Billings Metro, Billings, MT

Thursday | The Independent

Bryn Terfel: 'Bad Boys', Royal Festival Hall new

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

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, United Kingdom, Opera, Arts

Tue Nov 10, 2009

Music and Vision Daily

Ensemble. Vivid and Enlivening - Donizetti's 'Maria di Rohan', reviewed by Robert Hugill

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

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Related Topix: Opera, Arts, France, World News,

Sun Nov 08, 2009

MediaGuardian.co.uk

L'Assedio de Calais | Opera review

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.

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Houstonpress.com

Capsule Stage Reviews: The Elixir of Love, Lohengrin, Mary Poppins

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.

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera, Houston, TX, Houston Metro, Gaetano Donizetti, Theater

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Iron Tongue of Midnight

The Damrau Effect

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.

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera

Sun Nov 01, 2009

Star-Gazette.COM

Comedy, drama star in Tri-Cities Opera season

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

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera, Classical, Mozart, Theater

Sat Oct 31, 2009

San Francisco Chronicle

Soprano's energy translates easily onstage

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

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Related Topix: San Francisco Metro, Arts, Opera

Thu Oct 29, 2009

Financial Times

Maria Padilla, Wexford Opera House, Ireland

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

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Related Topix: Opera, Arts, Verdi

Tue Oct 27, 2009

Houston Chronicle

Russian soprano cozy in her Houston debut

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.

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera, Houston Metro, Gaetano Donizetti, Berlin, Germany Travel, Travel, El Salvador Travel, Germany Travel, Berlin, El Salvador Travel

Sun Oct 25, 2009

Post-Standard

Oswego Opera celebrates music of love

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.

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera, Syracuse Metro, Syracuse, NY, Gilbert and Sullivan, Entertainment

Sat Oct 24, 2009

Barre-Montpelier Times-Argus

Philharmonic opens grandly with opera

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.

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera, Barre, VT, Italy, World News, University of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro, VT

Thu Oct 22, 2009

Paste Magazine

The Booky Man: The Fellowship of the Reads

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.

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera, Baked Goods, Life, Food, Bread

Tue Oct 20, 2009

Post-Bulletin

Aria group expands season of opera

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.

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera, Rochester Metro, Rochester, MN, Puccini, Offenbach

Sun Oct 18, 2009

SF Sentinel

Daughter of the Regiment a " a Hit for SF Opera

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 ...

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera

Fri Oct 16, 2009

Kypost.Com

Could He Be The Next Pavarotti?

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.

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera, Charles Gounod, Gounod, Classical

Wed Oct 14, 2009

City Paper

Curtain Time

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 ...

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Related Topix: Jean-Philippe Rameau, Opera, Baltimore, MD, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Gaetano Donizetti, Baltimore Metro

Mon Oct 12, 2009

Ledger Dispatch

Tenor takes to the high C's like a duck to water

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.

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Related Topix: San Francisco Metro, Classical, Luciano Pavarotti, Arts, Opera, Rossini, Entertainment

Sat Oct 10, 2009

SF Sentinel

Tenor Juan Diego Fla"Rez - " Will Sing "Tonio" in SF Opera's Daughter of the Regiment

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.

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera, Gaetano Donizetti, Samhain, Life, Holidays, New York, Europe, World News, Germany

Thu Oct 08, 2009

Almanac

Tuesday: Opera preview in Menlo Park

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.

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera, Menlo Park, CA

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