Biographies
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Aida Garifullina
Aida Garifullina was born in 1987 into a Tarar household. She enrolled in the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts in 2007 and studied there with Claudia Visca. Two years later, in the university production of Mozart’s Cos fan tutte, Garifullina made her stage …
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Luciano Pavarotti
Luciano Pavarotti is one of those tenors who have become legends in their own time. Since the early 1970s, when he was launched to stardom, he has been regarded as one of the most important tenors of his time, with one of histories most compelling …
Articles, Interviews & Memories
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An Artistic Home – Beniamino Gigli
The following is a chapter from Gigli: The Master Tenor, a new English-language biography of the great Italian tenor by the late Colin Bain. THE ARRIVAL OF Gigli in New York, on October 31st, 1921, marked the beginning of an entirely new chapter in both his …
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Sitting Down with tenor Javier Camarena
Tenor Javier Camarena is appearing in Georges Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers at the Los Angeles Opera from October 7 to October 28. Camarena sings the tenor role of Nadir, Nino Machaidze sings Leila, Alfredo Daza is Zurga, and Nicholas Brownlee is Nourabad. Plácido Domingo and …
Focus Feature
Five Operas Worth Re-Discovering
Quality certainly isn’t the only criterion that decides whether a work of art survives or not: luck and a few other rather aleatory factors seem to play a major role. In today’s standard repertoires we can find works that should not have survived the decade …
Blog
More strange uses of opera in commercialsIn writing my last blog post, I asked around for examples of inappropriate …
Racism and sexism in operasRacism and sexism are huge issues in every sphere of society, and …
An opera ‘urban dictionary,’ part 2 (singer nicknames)As a follow-up on last week’s post, I present to you the …
Opera’s least healthy relationshipsIt’s nearly Valentine’s Day! That means it’s time to either drown in …
What happens after the opera?The opera social media world has been buzzing in the past few …
A Wagner opera dilemmaI just returned from a long, opera-filled winter break in continental Europe. …
Georgeanne’s First OperaIlana had a great post on the best operas for newbies, and …
Pretty opera housesI know, I know. Opera is about the music (and acting), not …
An opera ‘urban dictionary,’ part 1Opera is an art form that comes with its own vocabulary. Coloratura, …
