Operatif

10/04/2025

The future of Welsh National Opera in light of English Arts Council reduced funding - the speech from the joint CEOs.

Following a remarkably powerful and contemporary production of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, eighty years after its first production, Adele Thomas and Sar...

01/04/2025

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A powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake has devastated communities across Myanmar. You can help children and families left injured and homeless. Donate now.

01/04/2025

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Remembering our incredible trip to Burma/Myanmar in 2014.

01/03/2025

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/feb/27/he-was-a-titan-of-of-the-music-world-and-my-teacher-benjamin-appl-on-dietrich-fischer-dieskau?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Appl was the great singer’s final pupil. As the musical world celebrates Fischer-Dieskau’s centenary, his friend remembers lessons with ‘FiDi’

17/02/2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/arts/music/samuel-barber-vanessa-opera.html

Not likely to be staged in Brisbane but would be wonderful to see in Adelaide where there is a real festival

A concert performance of “Vanessa” freshly argued for the vitality of a work that deserves to be staged but languishes with its midcentury peers.

09/02/2025

What next ?? …. https://operawire.com/kennedy-center-surprised-by-president-trump-installing-himself-as-chairman-of-the-board/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2hR82fJnPqq5LuXFBq3QCPXAX1ftXxRWyxTbKdtbyVmJyf-GwNFF_RRKQ_aem_KlncMIk3aCAPV_6a2RIbmw

The Kennedy Center has released a statement after President Donald J. Trump announced that he would install himself as Chairman of the board and dismiss some of the current board members.

07/12/2024

https://amp.abc.net.au/article/104530262

Amy Sherwin, the 'Tasmanian nightingale', was Australia's first big international opera singerBy Loretta LohbergerPosted 4h ago4 hours agoFri 6 Dec 2024 at 9:17pm, updated 4h ago4 hours agoFri 6 Dec 2024 at 9:30pm A photograph of Amy Sherwin taken in Gardiner, Maine, during Sherwin's American tour i...

06/12/2024

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opera/what-to-see/metoo-puccini-tosca-royal-opera/

A hundred years on, the composer’s reputation as a serial philanderer still haunts his beloved operas

10/09/2024

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Renowned soprano Angela Gheorghiu caused a stir during a performance of Puccini's 'Tosca' in Seoul, halting the orchestra and interrupting her co-star's mid-show encore, much to the dismay of opera enthusiasts who had eagerly anticipated her performance.

07/07/2024

Current viewing...just a magnificent performance oozing class/

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14/03/2024

Sad sign of the times we live in...

For more than seven decades, pianist Mary Sutcliffe regularly played at milestone events in her small country town, but demand has fallen off a cliff in recent years, with the cost of living crisis a major factor.

07/12/2023