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Behind the Curtain: How a Little-Known Tech is Helping Opera on Video Stay Organized
Behind the Curtain: How a Little-Known Tech is Helping Opera on Video Stay Organized At Opera on Video, we’re all about bringing the beauty of opera to the world—making sure timeless performances are easy to find, watch, and enjoy. But behind the scenes, there’s a bit of digital magic helping us keep everything in order. It’s […]
DO YOU KNOW THESE GREAT METROPOLITAN OPERA RESOURCES?
Sure, you know the great Metropolitan Opera Website. It gives you all information about current and upcoming performances, provides ticketing and subscriptions, has a gift shop and best of all with Met on Demand you can get access to 900 full-length Met performances with the online streaming service. But the website has also a number […]
BACHTRACK – A great classical music website
If you are interested in classical music in general, then BACHTRACK is one of the best websites to visit. It provides you with a huge performance data base to search and many reviews. In addition to reviews, Bachtrack publishes general articles including previews of festivals and concert/opera seasons, as well as interviews with performers and industry figures. […]
TRAGEDY OF A QUEEN A Vocal Operatic Feast Lisette Oropesa triumphs as Maria Stuarda in Madrid 2024 A Review
The tragedy of a queen, a vocal operatic feast: Lisette Oropesa triumphs as Maria Stuarda in Madrid. A guest blog by Angel Parsifal https://emocionesliricas.blogspot.com/ Madrid, December 29, 2024. Once again, Christmas has arrived to the Spanish capital, and with its famous traditional street illumination, the crowds shopping for their families, and the frenzy taking hold […]
FANNY AND ALEXANDER World Premiere in Brussels 2024
‘FANNY AND ALEXANDER’ AT LA MONNAIE A guest blog by Ger Leppers originally posted by Basia con fuoco In the spring of 1987 I bought my first subscription to the opera performances at the Brussels Muntschouwburg. Since then I have seen quite a few world premieres there, because they are lavish in the Belgian capital. […]
Hans Pfitzner, Amazing Composer, unpleasant man: Thielemann conducts a dazzling Palestrina in Vienna 2024
Hans Pfitzner, Amazing Composer, unpleasant man: Thielemann conducts a dazzling Palestrina in Vienna A guest blog by Ángel Parsifal at https://emocionesliricas.blogspot.com/ Watch the full video performance here There are not many chances today to see some of Hans Pfitzner’s music in opera houses and concert halls. In fact, if it happens, they are usually limited […]
MAD SCENES IN OPERA
Mad Scenes A guest blog by Graham Abbot Graham’s Music https://www.grahamsmusic.net/ In 2015 I presented a series of four Keys to Music programs under the general heading of Focus on Opera. These looked in turn at mad scenes, death scenes, love scenes and crowd scenes and spanned operas from a wide range of periods and […]
The Impact of Digital Technologies on Singing
The Impact of Digital Technologies on Singing The impact of digital technologies on opera singing is a subject of debate that reflects the encounter between the tradition of opera and the technological innovations of our time. A blog by Imogen Streul https://www.facebook.com/imogen.streul Opera singer, German coach at the KCB in Brussels and singing teacher at […]
GROUNDED A PERSONAL REVIEW by Paul Padillo
GROUNDED A PERSONAL REVIEW A guest blog by Paul Padillo GROUNDED on Opera on Video I’m in a minority amongst my opera friends. I like and love a lot of works, especially newer operas, that routinely get bad press in the opera groups, criticized by the press. I often call my own t aste into […]
POP OPERA SINGERS – Success and Controversy
POP OPERA SINGERS – Success and Controversy Many opera singers crossed over into the popular genre in order to attract a different and greater audience. Just think of Monstserrat Caballé and Freddy Mercury in Barcelona, Luciano Paverotti with Zucchero and Eric Clapton, Placido Domingo with John Denver, José Carreras with Sissel – and many more. […]
The Bayreuth Rings – A Review
The Bayreuth Rings between Barenboim and Janowski: Levine’s Götterdämmerung and Thielemann’s Walküre Guest blog by Angel Parsifal from emocionesliricas The Bayreuth Ring videos on Opera on Video Here is my review on the existing videos from the Ring productions between 1994 and 2010 at Bayreuth: the 1997 Götterdämmerung conducted by James Levine, and the amazing […]
Gods observing life through laboratory glass: Wagner’s Ring by Tcherniakov and Thielemann in Berlin
Gods observing life through laboratory glass: Wagner’s Ring by Tcherniakov and Thielemann in Berlin. A guest blog by Angel Parsifal https://emocionesliricas.blogspot.com/ Review of Wagners Ring Berlin 2022 https://www.operaonvideo.com/Opera/der-ring-des-nibelungen-berlin-2022/ I always try to watch any Ring version on DVD or video, at least once per year. Last year, I was uplifted after watching by legendary Rings […]
OPERA AND SCIENCE FICTION A Blog
OPERA AND SCIENCE FICTION A Blog Opera and Science Fiction have much more in common than you would think first. Both are fantasy based on more or less reality. Science fiction stories are often modern sagas, or almost fairy tales. Just think of the Star Wars saga, or E.T. a classic fairy tale. Science fiction […]
Considering Kundry: Wagner’s Most Fascinating Character A Blog by Paul Padillo
Considering Kundry: Wagner’s Most Fascinating Character A Guestblog Paul Padillo Years ago my feathers got ruffled when I read an article arguing Kundry leaves an insignificant impact in Wagner’s Parsifal. He stated incorrectly Kundry’s only lines are in Act 2 “and even then limited,” and suggested it doesn’t even matter WHO sings Kundry, and expressed wonder […]
ELEKTRA – A Damaged Personality With A Sense Of Her Own Degradation
ELEKTRA – A damaged personality with a sense of her own degradation a critique by Nigel Gallimore Richard Strauss Elektra January 26, 2024. 7.30 pm ROH, Covent Garden After forty years of marriage and 43 years together, Sue and I have calculated that the operas we have seen the most live in the theatre are […]
THE RICHARD WAGNER WEB MUSEUM
THE RICHARD WAGNER WEB MUSEUM https://richard-wagner-web-museum.com A guest blog by Nicolas Crapanne, Editor-in-chief of the website The Richard Wagner Web Museum The most ambitious internet project ever dedicated to a composer ! For the first time, a completely unique website dedicated to a classical music composer – available in French since 2015, English, and German […]
Remembering Callas by Paul Padillo
Remembering Callas a Guest Blog by Paul Padillo Maria Callas 42 Videos Maria Callas lived only to the age of 53. Today marks the one hundredth anniversary of her birth. Mind blown. While I’ve written so much about Maria Callas since . . . let’s see, add the 6, carry the 3 and . . […]
How to Search and Find on Opera on Video
Opera on Video has grown greatly and provides you with a great number of opera performances and huge amount of information. This is great! But it may become more difficult to find quickly exactly what you are looking for. NOW we are improving the SEARCH facility even further, to allow you to find what you […]
DAS RHEINGOLD London 2023 A review by Nigel Gallimore
DAS RHEINGOLD London 2023 A review by Nigel Gallimore Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen. Das Rheingold. 23rd September 2023. 7.30 pm ROH, Covent Garden. The story of humanity, the evolution of the human race and society: a critique by Nigel Gallimore. DAS RHEINGOLD on Opera on Video A new Ring Cycle at the ROH is […]
The Story of Opera Bracelets
The Story of Opera Bracelets A guest blog by Cindy Battisti I was only a “hit song” sort of opera lover for the first part of my life. My Grandma would listen to opera on the radio when she was cooking big Sunday dinners. As an adult, I got in the habit of tuning in […]
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