Donizetti News

TWO Welsh singers take centre stage this week. Bryn Terfel, one of the world's most acclaimed bass-baritones, sings songs from his new CD, Bad Boys, featuring some of opera's greatest villains, at the Festival Hall and on tour.

Dinzetti crew at Bucharest Opera Hause after Donizetti premier together with Diva Mariana Nicolesco.

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.

In past seasons, Opera Tampa audiences have enjoyed performances by a petite young soprano named Rachel Watkins.

Interested in boning up before seeing the The Sacramento Opera's upcoming production of Donizetti's "Elixir of Love"? A good primer is the 1992 Metropolitan Opera performance of the work, with Luciano Pavarotti as Nemorino.

The Metropolitan Opera is showing free selections on Met Player , its online service that streams over 250 opera performances on demand, in celebration of National Opera Week.

The Israel Opera has a proud history of outreach through community-based opera productions in which professional singers take the principal roles and people from the neighborhood, the rest.

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.