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January 2013
Editor’s Notes Recent News
Featured productions Featured CD’s
Reviews by our critics Highlights during February
Featured Article Get free access to Opera Now!
EDITOR’S NOTES
A happy New Year to all our readers!
2013 is of course a big year in the world of opera as we celebrate the bicentenary of the births of Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi, and the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Britten. The celebrations have already begun and there will be much to look forward to throughout the year. And of course they will all be covered here on The Opera Critic!
And 2013 has brought world premieres! Notably Philip Glass’s new opera The Perfect American in Madrid and Douglas Cuomo’s Doubtin Minnesota. We applaud their endeavours!
Michael Sinclair
Editor
Photos
The Perfect American at the Teatro Real
(photo:Javier del Real / Teatro Real)
Doubt by Minnesota Opera
(photo: Michal Daniel)
RECENT NEWS
>> Opera San Jose general director Irene Dalis will step down. After nearly 30 years of running the company, Dalis, 87, has announced her retirement.
(The Mercury News)
more>>
>> Opera Australia’s Lyndon Terracini has signed with the company for another five years, using the occasion to call for a further easing of limits on international stars performing in Australia.
(Sydney Morning Herald)
more>>
>> A $2 million donation will help put Houston Grand Opera on course for its first staging of Richard Wagner’s epic «The Ring of the Nibelung.»
(Houston Chronicle)
more>>
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FEATURED PRODUCTIONS
Photo: Javier del Real / Teatro Real Photo: © Michal Daniel, 2013 Photo: Ken Howard / Metropolitan Opera
THE PERFECT AMERICAN
Teatro Real, Madrid
Purves, Pittsinger, Kaasch, Kelly, McLaughlin, Tynan, Lomas, Easterlin
(c) Davies (d) McDermott
DOUBT
Minnesota Opera
Worth, Brewer, Zabala, Graves
(c) Franklin (d) Newbury
MARIA STUARDA
Metropolitan Opera
DiDonato, van den Heever, Zifchak, Polenzani,
Hopkins, Rose
(c) Benini (d) McVicar
FEATURED CD’s
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Jonas Kaufmann
Wagner
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Edita Gruberova
Queen of Coloratura
HIGHLIGHTS DURING FEBRUARY 2013
1 Feb Leo Nucci sings the title role in a new production of Nabucco at the Teatro alla Scala. 13 Feb Calixto Bieito directs a new production of Boris Godunovfor the Bavarian State Opera.
2 Feb English National Opera mounts a new production of La Traviatadirected by Peter Konwitschny. 24 Feb NY City Opera marks the Britten centenary with a new production of The Turn of the Screw.
4 Feb Kasper Holten makes his directorial debut at Covent Garden with a new production of Eugene Onegin. 28 Feb The Teatro alla Scala premieresDer Fliegende Holländer with Bryn Terfel as the Dutchman.
Andrea Chenier at the Teatro Regio di Torino
REVIEWS BY OUR CRITICS
> L’Italiana in Algeri
Vienna State Opera
by Moore Parker
> Aida
Metropolitan Opera
by Steve Cohen
> Andrea Chénier
Teatro Regio di Torino
by Silvia Luraghi
FEATURED ARTICLE
Verdi or Wagner?
As Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner both celebrate bicentenaries in 2013, Ivan Hewett asks opera experts from Philip Hensher to Mark Elder who the better composer is.
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