Gaetano Donizetti News

By Thomas Hochwarter Star tenor Rolando Villazon has chosen Vienna to make a comeback after having to cancel all his performances this year, it has emerged.

The Vienna State Opera says star tenor Rolando Villazon will appear on its stage next March.

The Virginia Opera's new production of Gaetano Donizetti's "La Fille du Regiment" is a charming way to ease into this hectic holiday season.

Clarinetist Sandra McPherson smiles, then heads off to rehearse a Gaetano Donizetti opera, then heads off to teach, then to another rehearsal.

The Italian opera composer Gaetano Donizetti was born and died in Bergamo. He at first joined the Army to comply with parental wishes, but left as his early operas gained success.

As part of Scottish Opera's unashamedly Italianate autumn season, most people would expect to see The Elixir Of Love around Valentine's Day instead.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

Tulsa Opera Inc. kicks off the 62nd season of "Music Worth Seeing" on Saturday with the production "Lucia di Lammermoor," starring Muskogee native Sarah Coburn - whose ravishing performance in "Lakme" dazzled audiences in 2008 - and acclaimed tenor Scott Piper, who played Don Jose in the 2007 production "Carmen." Performances of "Lucia di ...

Virginia Opera will play "The Daughter of the Regiment" by Gaetano Donizetti - fight for the one you love - performed in French with supertitles.

MARIA NOCKIN reports from Los Angeles Opera's opening night 'L'Elisir d'amore' Gaetano Donizetti 's L'elisir d'amore is a 1832 melodramma giocoso in two acts that reflects Italian opera 's well-established comedic tradition.

An L.A. Opera presentation of an opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti and Felice Romani.

The dog days of summer are here, and next weekend is Labor Day. Halloween costumes are already in the stores.

Hoover Auditorium will host acts such as Chapter 6, Melissa Manchester, Phil Keaggy and Fernando Ortega, The Ohio State University Alumni Band, the Lakeside Symphony Orchestra, Debby Boone and the 60th anniversary Barbershop Quartet Festival this year.

The Asheville Lyric Opera and season sponsor, the Grand Bohemian Hotel, has announced its 11th season for 2009-10. The season will feature three classic opera productions and a festive Christmas concert.

Imagine that Frederick Loewe, aspiring to the stage of the Met, had removed the dialogue from My Fair Lady and reworked the musical into grand opera.

Angela Meade - who makes her Caramoor debut Friday in the title role of Rossini's 'Semiramide' - would rather play a fighter than a lover.