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