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POP PLAY OPERA DE PARIS Great Streaming Site INFO & VIDEO PLAYLIST 72 video clips
There are many great opera video streaming sites, but POP Play Opera de Paris is one of the best. https://play.operadeparis.fr/en Paris Opera Play (POP) is the official streaming platform of the Opéra national de Paris, offering a front-row seat to world-class performances from the Palais Garnier and Opéra Bastille. Core Offerings Performances: Access a rich […]
HOW TO BEST WATCH VIDEOS WITH OPERA ON VIDEO – A GUIDE and OVERVIEW
HOW TO BEST WATCH Videos with Opera on Video. I get frequent questions about how to best watch videos with Opera on Video. Let me explain how videos are posted with Opera on Video. As you may know, NO full videos are posted on the Opera on Video webserver at all. Instead the information about […]
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 […]
TEACH ME TO LOVE PARSIFAL Blog by Paul Padillo
Teach Me To Love Parsifal A guest blog by Paul Padillo https://www.facebook.com/paul.padillo.9 About Me Sharky Portland, Maine, United States Crazy, free spirit, originally from New York with side trips through DC, Chicagoland, Tennessee and Florida. Maine is home. Love anything to do with sports, music, food, movies, theatre. Least favorite things: fashion, pretentious people, today’s […]
UNITEL – The Largest Opera Video Producer
UNITEL is the producer and rights holder of the largest classical video catalogue: It holds more than 3000 video productions. Unitel GmbH & Co.KG is based and operates from just outside Munich, Germany. The huge Unitel catalogue is fully documented on OperaonVideo HERE Quote from the UNITEL Website: True to its motto “Music to Watch,” […]
MARIA AND ISOLDE AND ME by Paul Padillo
A guest blog by Paul Padillo Callas und Isolde We know Maria gave her first Isolde at La Fenice on 30 December 1948, after learning memorizing and rehearsing it in a matter of days. Fiorenzo Tasso was her Tristan, Fedora Barbieri the Brangane, and Boris Christoff was King Marke. There were only four performances and […]
OPERA ON SOLO PIANO by Matthew Toogood
Discovering Music from the Podium to the Piano: Welcome to Matthew Toogood Conductor Website: www.matthewtoogood.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MatthewToogood As a conductor, I’ve always believed that music lives most fully when it’s shared — not just on stage, but in conversation, collaboration, and discovery. That belief is what inspired me to launch my YouTube channel, Matthew Toogood […]
CROSSOVER – popular music artists singing opera
CROSSOVER – popular music artists singing opera Many opera singers crossover into musical, folksong and pop music. But also popular music artists occasionally sing a bit from opera. I do not mean popular artists who try to be in both such as Andrea Bocelli, Katherine Jenkins, Sarah Brightman and similar. I mean singers who only […]
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 […]
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