You would have to be in a pretty miserable mood not to enjoy the Vancouver Opera Festival’s La Cenerentola (Cinderella), a production that manages to be polished and cartoonish at the same time. The ...

For replacements in the currently running Broadway production. Seeking ensemble singers. Male and Female singers for all vocal chorus ensemble positions (tenors, baritones, basses, lyric and ...

In the Canadian Opera Company's production of Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio, an opera that stands out for featuring two leading roles for coloratura soprano – the voice type known for speed ...

The Metropolitan Opera has a dazzling new coloratura soprano. She is Atlanta-born Mattiwilda Dobbs, 31, pert, appealing to the eye, solacing to the most opera-worn ear. She made her debut as Gilda in ...

Opera tends to be a love it or hate it form of artistic expression; I fall strictly into the latter camp, since I tend to feel the vocals ruin what otherwise might be a fine piece of music. That ...

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"Cut" may be a dirty word in purer-minded operatic circles, but even the most ardent fans of Richard Strauss must itch for the shears when it comes to Die schweigsame Frau. A really rather trivial ...

OPERA translated into English, which had not been heard at the Metropolitan since the days when “Parsifal” was performed Anglice to spare the emotions of patriots who could not endure Wagner’s text in ...