Opera

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=1D1SpbEmbow&feature=emb_logohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=-MGsPNwBEjc&feature=emb_logohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=wCT4pA1B444&feature=emb_logohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=9YGNZ5NGwvY&feature=emb_logohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=KUEs25uvRZE&feature=emb_logo Review Quotations Music holds its own in Minnesota Opera’s amazing staging of ‘Don Pasquale’: Have you ever been to an opera and walked out humming the concept?…Donizetti wove enough beauty into his romantic arias and suffused his duets, trios and quartets with such enjoyable vocal one-upmanship that his music is never pushed aside by …

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A Chat with Maestro Mark Morash https://youtu.be/mTE4wEyekEIhttps://youtu.be/ZKeSrTJaAro Review Quotations Cenerentola served up with laughs and poignancy For a combination of poignant emotion and flat-out comedic brilliance, you can’t do much better than “La Cenerentola”… Thursday’s performance of the opera at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music — made such a vivid impression… it came through …

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Review Quotations Modifying a production concept seen before at Arizona Opera, Chuck Hudson directed an admirably lively, if occasionally frenetic, Tudor-set show with plenty of comic detail… The audience rightly cheered the cast…at the end of a very enjoyable evening. —David Shengold, Opera News Opera Saratoga season begins with a bang…To open its season, Opera …

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Review Quotations The Atlanta Opera smartly transforms Donizetti’s comedy classic “Don Pasquale”…Although this is Atlanta Opera’s first foray with the vocally challenging bel canto comedy, this production is hardly a traditional period approach. Instead of being set in the aristocratic social milieu of early 19th-century Rome, Italy, stage director Chuck Hudson and his creative crew …

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Review Quotations Women dominate strong cast in HOT’s superb ‘La Boheme’: Hawai‘i Opera Theatre opened its 2016-17 season with a charming production of Puccini’s “La Boheme” … that is at once personal and epic. -Ruth Bingham, Special to the Star-Advertiser

Review Quotations TO CLOSE OUT ITS SEASON, Arizona Opera did very well by the serious comic challenge of Verdi’s final masterwork…Chuck Hudson’s imaginative staging—on a splendidly evoked onstage galleried Elizabethan theater (by Douglas Provost and Peter Nolle) with Henry Venanzi’s well-drilled chorus (in contemporary clothes) as an increasingly participatory element—proved an eyeful, usually in successful …

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Special Guest Artist Jesus Montoya

Review Quotations Very impressive to me was the difficulty of the physical actions required while singing sometimes complex vocals, whether dancing, sitting or lying down.…stage director Chuck Hudson seems to have accomplished quite a feat with such an expansive work and the performances by each of the lead actors seemed to be as good as …

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Review Quotations In presenting this difficult and massive opera, Wichita Grand Opera did itself proud… I think that this will probably be the only time in my life that I will get to see a traditional William Tell, performed as the libretto demands, given the narcissistic willfulness of so many contemporary directors… And you know …

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