Teatro Nuovo announced today an all-day celebration of the 100th birthday of Maria Callas, on December 2 at El Museo del Barrio (1230 Fifth Avenue), next door to the great soprano's birthplace.
When the Orlando Opera Company raises the curtain Friday night on Gaetano Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love, it will expose Central Florida to more than just an opera. The audience at Carr Performing ...
There are no easy answers in Paul Weitz's operatic drama, which stars Moore opposite Ken Watanabe in a delicately rendered emotional thriller. The musical term bel canto refers to a lighter, smoother ...
Bel canto, or “beautiful singing,” can be applied to most operas, but it has come to describe the hundreds of Italian works composed during the first half of the 19th century. Most have languished ...
Who do they think they are, these people who want to teach us our trade? We know it ever so much better than they do. Let composers stick to their méetier and let us do ours! Composers who write out ...
Marni Nixon was the voice of Natalie Wood’s Maria in the film version of “West Side Story,” just as she sang Audrey Hepburn’s parts in “My Fair Lady” and those of Deborah Kerr in “The King and I.” ...
NEW YORK — For opera fans around the world, the diva that will never die remains the glorious, inimitable Maria Callas, who now gets her say in “Maria by Callas.” As the title implies, this is solely ...
Maria Callas was the greatest soprano of all time. Maria Callas was the greatest soprano of recent time. Maria Callas was one of many great sopranos. Maria Callas was a great operatic actress, but a ...
Every so often, when I’m pontificating about opera, in print or in person, a reader or an editor will ask me, “But what exactly is bel canto?” And I’m brought up short. The quickest answer is, “It ...
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