Showing posts with label opera. Show all posts
Showing posts with label opera. Show all posts
Friday, February 17, 2023

It’s all in the detail – Madama Butterfly in Valencia, December 2021

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Puccini’s Madame Butterfly is a very well-known, much loved, and indeed popular opera. The genre is replete with femmes fatales , Butterfly,...
Saturday, January 28, 2023

Billy Budd by Herman Melville

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Billy Budd is doubly famous. He is the eponymous principal character of Herman Melville’s novella and, by adoption via E M Forster’s hand, a...
Monday, January 23, 2023

Jenufa by Leos Janacek in Valencia – simple triumph for Corinne Winters

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Of all operas, there are a couple by Leos Janacek that I would profess to ‘know’, in that I have seen multiple productions, read and studied...
Sunday, March 13, 2022

Costa Blanca Arts Update - Through the emotions – Soler, Valero and Gandía at ADDA in Alicante

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Gala Lirica, Opera Gala or merely Song Medley often labels an admixture of showcase snippets, offered, it seems, primarily to advertise a vo...
Thursday, December 16, 2021

It’s all in the detail – Madama Butterfly in Valencia

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Puccini’s Madame Butterfly is a very well-known, much loved, and indeed popular opera. The genre is replete with femmes fatales , Butterfly,...
Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Costa Blanca Arts Update - Alfaz del Pi February concerts - Pilar and Pedro Valero, Duo Evocacion and Maria Kosenkova

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Music can take an audience to many different places. It all depends on where they want to go. But during a period of coronavirus restriction...
Thursday, October 1, 2020

Giacomo Puccini by Wakeling Dry

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  Another Project Gutenberg book is a short biography and critical appraisal of Puccini, written around the time of Madame Butterfly's p...
Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Eros and Psyche by Ludomir Rozicki

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Opera reviews usually carry no spoiler warnings. On the contrary, they usually begin with an exhaustive, sometimes exhausting blow-by-blow ...
Monday, July 6, 2020

Verdi: Man and musician by Frederick J Crowest

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I began reading this on the bus coming back from Valencia, having consumed Byron’s Corsair on the way up, before a performance of Il Corsar...
Monday, February 8, 2010

Leaves From His Life, essays by Leoš Janáček, edited by V and M Tausky

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About twenty years ago my wife and I were on a train that came to a halt. It was late afternoon in mid-August. We were on holiday. A weak su...
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Friday, July 13, 2007

Puss in Boots (El Gato con Botas), an opera by Xavier Montsalvatge

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Just occasionally – in fact pretty rarely these days – something utterly surprising emerges from an evening in a concert hall. Almost forty ...