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Milan's La Scala and Paris Opera commission opera based on Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'

May. 19, 2023 12:47 PM EDT

MILAN (AP) — Italian composer Francesco Filidei has been commissioned by Milan's Teatro alla Scala and the Paris Opera to write a new opera based on Umberto Eco's most famous novel “The Name of the Rose,'' the opera houses announced Friday. The world premiere has already been...

Czech opera singer Soňa Červená dies at age 97

May. 08, 2023 15:46 PM EDT

PRAGUE (AP) — Soňa Červená, a Czech opera singer who became known for playing Carmen and more than 110 roles in San Francisco and other opera houses behind the Iron Curtain, has died. She was 97. Červená died Sunday at a hospital in the Czech capital where she was being...

Don Giovanni `unredeemable' in Ivo van Hove's US opera debut

May. 03, 2023 07:55 AM EDT

When Ivo van Hove first discussed his “very dark” vision of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” with his cast at the Metropolitan Opera, the leading man had doubts. “He said, ‘But is there no hope?’” the Belgian director recalled of his conversation with Peter Mattei. ...

Met premieres Blanchard's `Champion,' an `opera in jazz'

Apr. 12, 2023 13:28 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — When Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” proved a sell-out hit at the Metropolitan Opera in 2021, general manager Peter Gelb wasted no time lining up the composer’s other opera for the current season. And that set the clock ticking for Blanchard...

Dalbavie’s 'Melancholy of Resistance' to premiere in Berlin

Mar. 29, 2023 10:12 AM EDT

Marc-André Dalbavie’s opera based on Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s surrealistic novel “The Melancholy of Resistance” will premiere next summer in Berlin. Titled “Melancholie des Widerstands,” the opera will be conducted by Marie Jacquot and directed by David Marton, the...