Podcasts about Madama Butterfly

The earliest selection on last week's Elisabeth Söderström episode featured the soprano at 24 singing the title role of Madama Butterfly. In that live recording, we also heard as Sharpless her compatriot the baritone Hugo Hasslo, to whom I introduced my listeners last fall. Today I dive a little bit deeper into Hasslo's extant recordings. Considering what a great singer he was, and how his reputation has merely grown with the passage of time, it's shocking how rarely Hasslo recorded in the studio. Therefore the majority of this episode consists of live recordings, from as far back as Hasslo's operatic debut in 1940 as Guglielmo under the baton of Fritz Busch, through to his performance as di Luna alongside Jussi Björling's final operatic appearance in Sweden twenty years later. Along the way we hear excerpts from Rigoletto, Il tabarro, Yevgeny Onegin (or should I say Eugen Onegin), Il trovatore, and… Porgy and Bess (?!?!). I also include a sample of the singing of Hasslo's teacher, the Scottish tenor Joseph Hislop to show that the apple did not fall far from the tree! Other singers appearing on the episode include Sena Jurinac, Einar Andersson, Sigurd Björling, Eric Sædén, Margareta Hallin, Arne Tyrén, Aase Nordmo Løvberg, Apollo Granforte, and a surprise visit from last week's subject, the transcendent Elisabeth Söderström. Countermelody is a podcast devoted to the glory and the power of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great singers of the past and present focusing in particular on those who are less well-remembered today than they should be. Daniel's lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and “inside stories.” At Countermelody's core is the celebration of great singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. By clicking on the following link (https://linktr.ee/CountermelodyPodcast) you can find the dedicated Countermelody website which contains additional content including artist photos and episode setlists. The link will also take you to Countermelody's Patreon page, where you can pledge your monthly or yearly support at whatever level you can afford.

Ming, a Music and Philosophy student at the University of Pittsburgh, used our cello lesson time this week to videotape an interview for his “Music Culture and History” course. The class explores classical concerts in Pittsburgh and discusses performances around the world. The group attended Madama Butterfly at Pittsburgh’s Benedum Center, and much of this READ MORE The post S. 2. 12. Mingxuan Xu: Classical Music Across The World first appeared on Accelerando Podcast.

Today we're joined by two extraordinary sopranos, Karen Chia-ling Ho. and Yasko Sato⁠. Karen and Yasko are double cast in the role of Cio-Cio San in our upcoming production of Madama Butterfly, running April 26th to May 4th at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.Learn MoreCredits:Karen Chia-ling Ho - Cio-Cio San April 27 & May 4Yasko Sato - Cio-Cio San - Cio-Cio San April 26, May 1 & 3Ashley Daniel Foot - HostMack McGillivray - Producer

Neste vídeo Gonzalo Córdoba fala sobre as perspectivas técnicas, estéticas e educacionais da iluminação na Argentina. Gonzalo Córdoba é iluminador, cenógrafo, diretor, artista visual, professor e pesquisador. Em produções de ópera, criou a iluminação para Ariadne auf Naxos, Così fan tutte, Candide, Tri Sestri, O Cônsul para Ruben Szuchmacher, O Estupro de Lucrécia, Wozzeck, A Flauta Mágica, O Morcego, Madama Butterfly para Horacio Pigozzi, O Traviata, Italiana em Argel, Serse para Pablo Maritano, cenografia e luzes para Leonor Manso em Lucia de Lammermoor e Tosca, para María Jaunarena em A Flauta Mágica, Outra Volta do Parafuso, Medea, Conde Ory e para Ana D'Anna em El barbero de Sevilla, Bohéme, Rigoletto, Hoffman's Tales, Turandot. Com André Heller Lopez iluminou Don Pasquale, Lucia de Lammermoor, Manon Lescaut, Merry Widow, Faust, Cosi fan tutte e As Bodas de Fígaro.Como diretor: "Proyecto Appia" para Enclaves no CETC, "El Límite de Schiller", iluminação da Puente de la Boca, Linha Azul do metrô de Buenos Aires. Mude a encenação de Emma Bovary e Maní con chocolate 2 com Ana Bovo, bem como "los Persas" de Ésquilo e "La Inhumana" com Alejandra Radano. Dirigiu Marta Roca em "Palabras Cuerdas". Escreveu dois ensaios sobre iluminação cênica "La Trampa de Goethe" e "La Iluminación Escénica", editados por El Rojas.Foi comtemplado com o Prémio Teatros do Mundo por "El Experimento Damanthal" e ACE 2005 por "Las Troyanas" e "Enrique IV"; Meu Deus". Ganhou os prêmios Teatros del Mundo em 2013 e o Maria Guerrero 2014 por Querido Ibsen, Soy Nora, Love Love e Cabaña Suiza, o Prêmio Trinidad Guevara 2015 por "La nueva autoridad" e em 2016 o Prêmio Trinidad Guevara por "Desonrado". Prêmio "Hugo" por Love Musik, 2017 Florencio Sánchez por "Todas as coisas do mundo" e Prêmio KONEX 2011.Atualmente trabalha como Professor na Universidade Nacional das Artes na disciplina de Projeto II, em História da Iluminação Cênica na carreira de design de iluminação de espetáculos, e em Teatro Musical. É membro da Associação ADEA de Designers Cênicos da Argentina.@‌gonzaloemicordova | SITE: gonzalocordova.com.ar

In this conversation, we explore how director Mo Zhou has re-imagined Madama Butterfly for today. In her Canadian directorial debut, Mo Zhou brings this fresh vision to Vancouver Opera from April 26 to May 4, a production that honours Puccini's masterwork while offering audiences a chance to see Madama Butterfly in a new light.Learn more.Credits:Mo Zhou - Director of Madama ButterflyAshley Daniel Foot - Host of Inside Vancouver OperaMack McGillivray - Producer

Die Osterfestspiele im Festspielhaus Baden-Baden gehen mit den Berliner Philharmonikern unter ihrem Chefdirigenten Kirill Petrenko in diesem Jahr in die letzte Runde. Traditionsgemäß werden die Festspiele mit der Neuproduktion einer Oper eröffnet, diesmal mit Giacomo Puccinis japanischer Tragödie „Madama Butterfly“. Als derzeitiges Puccini-Traumpaar verkörpern Elonora Buratto die Titelpartie und Jonathan Tetelman den untreuen Amerikaner Pinkerton. Der Italiener Davide Livermore inszeniert ein Werk, bei dem oft in die heikle exotistische Falle gegangen wird. Mehr zu Madama Butterfly: https://www.swr.de/swrkultur/musik-klassik/madama-butterfly-5-fakten-puccini-osterfestspiele-baden-baden-100.html

Kevadhooajal toimub kaks Puccini ooperi „Madama Butterfly“ etendust. Nende eel ajame juttu lavastaja Robert Annusega, kellelt küsime, kuidas mõjutab lavastust nimirolli osatäitja vahetumine ning kuidas leiti geiša Chōchō-sani poja osatäitja. Lisaks räägime Vanemuises peatselt esietenduvast komöödiast „Armas ilves“ ja septembris välja tulnud ajakirjanduslikust põnevikust „Big Mother“.

Annemieke Bosman gaat met Char Li Chung in gesprek over de voorstelling Madame Butterfly. Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly uit 1904 vertelt het verhaal van de 15-jarige Japanse geisha Cio-Cio-San, bijgenaamd Butterfly. Ze wordt verliefd op de Amerikaanse marineofficier Pinkerton, die direct na hun huwelijk terugkeert naar zijn geboorteland. Butterfly blijft verlaten achter in verwachting van hun zoon. Na drie jaar keert haar geliefde terug, maar niet voor de hereniging waar Cio-Cio-San op heeft gewacht.

»Vsi upajo. V srcu vsakega človeka živi upanje kot želja in pričakovanje dobrega, čeprav ne ve, kaj se bo zgodilo jutri.« Tako zapiše papež Frančišek v buli, posebnem papeškem dokumentu, s katero je napovedal redno sveto leto 2025 in vse pozval, da postanemo romarji upanja. Z upanjem, to presežno dimenzijo, ki daje smisel našemu življenju, so pospremljena besedila pesnikov in pisateljev. »Zjasnílo se mi bo spet mračno líce,« piše Prešeren v Sonetnem vencu, »spet upanje bo v srcu zelenelo in ústom dalo sladke govoríce.« Tone Pavček, mojster preprostih, toda globokih misli o življenju, bodri in spodbuja: »A če ne prideš ne prvič, ne drugič / do krova in pravega kova / poskusi: vnovič in zopet in znova.« Ker se nikoli ne preda, je Dante Alighieri prerok upanja. V njegovi Božanski komediji je Beatrice tista, ki simbolizira upanje in skupaj z Devico Marijo, znanilko ljubezni, in sveto Lucijo, ki uteleša podobo vere, zaokrožuje tri temeljne krščanske kreposti. Pa ne nujno samo krščanske. Upanje je vodilo v umetnosti, ki predstavlja dramo življenja in se steguje po čustvu hrepenenja in ljubezni ter nenehnega bojevanja med dobrim in zlom. Madama Butterfly v ikonični Puccinijevi operi pijana od ljubezni neskončno upa, da bo strel v pristanišču nekoč, jutri naznanil prihod ladje, ki ji poveljuje njen Pinkerton. Poln upanja je Kalaf v Turandotu istega skladatelja. Njegovo upanje je neomajno. Ne meneč se za svarila svojega očeta, male Liu in umirajočega princa, zmaga in ogreje navidezno ledeno srce žene, ki se ne more upreti njegovi ljubezni. »Upanje pa ne osramoti, ker je Božja ljubezen izlita v naša srca« (prim. Rim 5, 5), pravi veliki apostol Pavel v knjigi vseh knjig. Upanje umre zadnje, je slovenski pregovor. Spes ultima dea so podobno rekli stari Latinci. Bogu hvala, da smemo tudi v tem času in v tem svetu upati, da bo svetloba premagala temo, da bo namesto vojn zavladal mir, da bo dobrota gospodovala nad zlom.

De gloednieuwe biopic Maria schetst de hallucinante laatste dagen van ‘La Divina' in haar Parijse appartement in september 1977. Huh, van wie? Van Maria Callas, de grootste sopraan en operaster ooit. Los van elkaar bezochten Joris en Guido de film in de bios. Tot de opname in de Pandora-podcaststudio startte, waren de heren niet op de hoogte van elkaars mening. En wat er toen gebeurde…Speellijst* W.A. Mozart, Non mi dir, uit: Don Giovanni, Maria Callas (sopraan), Orchestra della Maggio Musicale Fiorentino o.l.v. Tullio Serafin (Florence 1953)* I Showed Him the Diary* Panagiotis Toundas, Why I Snort Cocaine, Aggelina Papadopoulou, Erofili Panogiotarea, Lydia Koniordou * Vincenzo Bellini, Casta diva, uit: Norma, Maria Callas (sopraan), Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano o.l.v. Tullio Serafin (Milaan 1954)* Georges Bizet, Près des remparts de Seville, uit: Carmen, Maria Callas (sopraan), Orchestre National de la Radiodifussion Française o.l.v. Georges Prêtre (Parijs 1961)* Giacomo Puccini, Choro a boccha chiusa (‘Humming Chorus'), uit: Madama Butterfly, Budapest Scoring Orchestra & Choir o.l.v. Péter Illényi 

How do we learn from the past to change the future? This bonus is an excerpt of Charlton's interview with Matthew Ozawa, stage director for the New York premiere of Angel Island at BAM produced by Beth Morrison Productions. In this clip, Matthew shares how his first experience on Angel Island and personal family history inspired the staging of the Prototype Festival staging. And Charlton describes how this project has shifted his own relationship to the energy of the Immigration Station detention barracks. As Matthew says, “This is now gonna exist for all times, for so many generations and people to experience, to think about, to learn about their history in a way that pre this piece, probably people didn't even know about... And this is why we make art.” Matthew has some exciting productions on the horizon for 2025 including Puccini's Madama Butterfly with Pittsburgh Opera in March and with Utah Opera in May. You can follow Matthew's work at matthewozawa.com. Connect with Del Sol Quartet DelSolQuartet.com Del Sol Quartet on Spotify Facebook Instagram YouTube This episode is a bonus from the "Angel Island" season of Sounds Current. If you haven't already, we encourage you to go back to "Part 1: A Haunting History" and listen to the full 4-part story. Sounds Current is produced and edited by The Creative Impostor Studios and hosted by Charlton Lee.    

It's been 100 years since the death of the Italian opera composer Giacomo Puccini. From La Bohème to Turandot, Puccini's operas remain some of the most popular around the world. To explore Puccini's life and legacy, we're joined by musicologist Dr Linda Fairtile and hear performances from two Opera Australia productions.Also, since Hamilton debuted in Australia in 2021, the American founding father has been played by the South African-born, Perth-raised performer Jason Arrow. He's now been in the role for longer than the show's writer and original star, Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Unser Dramaturg Fabio Dietsche gibt einen Einblick in die Produktion «Madama Butterfly». Live-Einführungen finden jeweils 45 Minuten vor der Vorstellung im Opernhaus statt.

Se le queda corta y aún así no termina de encajarle el término de 'gran dama' o de 'diva' de nuestro cine y nuestras tablas. Marisa Paredes no era solo un absoluto icono del cine español, que había trabajado para nuestros mejores cineastas: Trueba, Almodóvar, Villaronga. También fue una mujer de tablas, a las órdenes de Lluis Pasqual, Gerardo Vera o José Carlos Plaza. Todo eso y más lo vamos a recordar en este programa especial dedicado a la gran Marisa Paredes.Recordamos su trayectoria y su evolución a lo largo de los años con el director de 'La sala' de RNE, Daniel Galindo y la directora de 'Va de cine', Conxita Casanovas. Mientras hablamos, también, sobre la versión de 'Madama Butterfly' que se está representando en el Gran Teatre del Liceu hasta el 28 de diciembre, en el centenario de la muerte de Puccini. Una coproducción con la Royal Opera House en la que nuestro próximo invitado, el tenor Pablo García-López, interpreta el papel de Goro, al que define como mercader de personas, como la representación del capitalismo salvaje. Con él también hablamos sobre la actriz.Escuchar audio

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Humanities West and the Italian Cultural Institute celebrate the life and art of Giacomo Puccini (December 22, 1858 to November 29, 1924) on the 100th anniversary of his death. His operas La Bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Turandot are among the most beloved and most often-recorded operas of all time. His arias are famous for both their emotional resonance and their melodic beauty—even among millions who have never listened to a complete opera. Puccini was born into a centuries-old family of Italian composers, and he began his successful career just as Verdi was completing his, quickly inheriting Verdi's renown as the greatest living composer of Italian opera. We have brought the internationally praised scholar and musicologist Gabriele Dotto from Italy to share the stage with San Francisco Opera's favorite Kip Cranna to tell some of the stories behind the composition of Puccini's heavenly arias. Giacomo Puccini and the Impact of Early 20th Century Media Gabriele Dotto will trace the rapid rise of sound recordings and film as competitors for opera theaters and the traditional business of music publishers. Puccini and his publisher, Casa Ricordi, demonstrated an extraordinary combination of artistic creation and commercial activity, using new and efficient strategies to market Casa Ricordi's opera repertoire to a globally expanding audience and “branding” Puccini as the publishing house's most iconic composer. Puccini Before Fame: The Composer in His Youth Clifford (Kip) Cranna will discuss Puccini's boyhood experiences, his musical training and his operatic influences. Cranna will demonstrate that some of the music Puccini wrote as a student was eventually recycled in his later operas. He will also concentrate on Puccini's first two operas, the rarely performed Le Villi and Edgar, which were composed before his first big hit Manon Lescaut—the beginning of his enduring fame and operatic stardom. OrganizerGeorge Hammond   A Humanities Member-led Forum program. Forums at the Club are organized and run by volunteer programmers who are members of The Commonwealth Club, and they cover a diverse range of topics. Learn more about our Forums. In association with Humanities West and the Italian Cultural Institute Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

PUCCINI: Madama Butterfly, Ópera en dos actos (Acto II, Parte III) (34.43). R. Scotto (sop.), A. di Stasio (mez.), C, Bergonzi (ten.), R. Panerai (bar.), P. de Palma (ten.), G. Morresi (bar.), Coro y Orq. del Teatro de la Ópera de Roma. Dir.: J. Barbirolli. Crisantemi S. 65 (arr. para órg.) (6.21). L. Tamminga (órg.).Escuchar audio

PUCCINI: Madama Butterfly, Ópera en dos actos (Acto II, Parte II) (40.40). R. Scotto (sop.), A. di Stasio (mez.), C, Bergonzi (ten.), R. Panerai (bar.), P. de Palma (ten.), G. Morresi (bar.), Coro y Orq. del Teatro de la Ópera de Roma. Dir.: J. Barbirolli. GOUNOD: Le Soir (6 Romanzas sin palabras) (3.10). R. Prosseda (p.).Escuchar audio

PUCCINI: Madama Butterfly, Ópera en dos actos (Acto I, Parte II; Acto II, Parte I) (40.23). R. Scotto (sop.), A. di Stasio (mez.), C, Bergonzi (ten.), R. Panerai (bar.), P. de Palma (ten.), G. Morresi (bar.), Coro y Orq. del Teatro de la Ópera de Roma. Dir.: J. Barbirolli.Escuchar audio

PUCCINI: Madama Butterfly, Ópera en dos actos (Acto I, Parte I) (25.57). R. Scotto (sop.), A. di Stasio (mez.), C, Bergonzi (ten.), R. Panerai (bar.), P. de Palma (ten.), G. Morresi (bar.), Coro y Orq. del Teatro de la Ópera de Roma. Dir.: J. Barbirolli. GOUNOD: Preludio y fuga en Sol mayor (2.32). Coral y Fuga en Fa mayor (3.01). Coral y Fuga en La menor (3.12). R. Prosseda (p.). PUCCINI: Corazzata Sicilia – Marcia d’Ordinanza (arr. para órg. y perc.) (2.45). L. Tamminga (órg.), V. Marrè (perc.), M. Natalizi (perc.).Escuchar audio

Letzten Sommer hat er zum dritten Mal das Lucerne Festival Orchestra dirigiert: der kanadische Star-Dirigent Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Im Gespräch erklärt er die Besonderheit dieses Orchesters, für das er als möglicher Kandidat in der Nachfolge Riccardo Chaillys gehandelt wird. Nézet-Séguin erzählt von seinen Studien: Klavier, Komposition usw. Und, dass es ihm mit der diverity ernst ist. Die Kunst müsse die Welt, in der wir leben, als Ganzes repräsentieren und nicht nur einen Ausschnitt. Denn das, so Nézet-Séguin, sei schlicht ignorant. Aktuell: Wie eine Schweizer Spieluhr Giacomo Puccini für "Madama Butterfly" auf die Sprünge half. In den Neuerscheinungen fragen wir "Who's afraid of ...?" mit der neuen CD des Boulanger-Trios, auf der ausschliesslich Komponistinnen zu finden sind. Und zur Sprache kommt ebenfalls das neue "EU Songbook" mit 164 Liedern aus 27 Mitgliedstaaten.

London-based film writer Esmé Holden joins us to discuss David Cronenberg's M. Butterfly. Based on the Tony Award-winning David Henry Hwang play - itself based on the the real life relationship between Bernard Boursicot and Shi Pei Pu, a Beijing opera singer - Cronenberg's film embraces the conventions of melodrama while thoughtfully exploring gender & queernes and weaving a complex romance tragically undone by the conventions and bigotries of the colonial-capitalist order.We begin by discussing the films explorations of gender, queerness, and transness, and how Cronenberg showcases an exceptionally forward-thinking and nuanced portrayal of these concepts in an era of films content with caricature, stereotype, and parody. Then, we consider how M. Butterfly presents a ground-zero for further explorations of the body, its presentation within societal perfrormance, and the fluidity of sexual expression that would become hallmarks of Cronenberg's signature style throughout the next few decades. Finally, explore the complicated ideological stictures that confine the film's protagonists and how capitalism's myopic definitions of identity continue to hinder self-actualization in its subjects.Follow Esmé Holden on Twitter. Read Cinema Year Zero. Get access to all of our premium episodes and bonus content by becoming a Hit Factory Patron for just $5/month.....Our theme song is "Mirror" by Chris Fish. 

Es gibt Menschen, die einen grossen Bogen um die Opern von Giacomo Puccini schlagen. Zu schwülstig, üppig. Kitschverdacht! Und tatsächlich lässt sich hier trefflich schwelgen. Im November jährt sich Puccinis Todestag zum 100. Mal. Der so genannte Verismo, den Puccini als Komponist bedient und wo auch mal das ganze Orchester mit der sterbenden Sopranistin mitschluchzt, geht manchen zu nahe. Doch Puccini ist nicht so eindimensional wie ihn seine Verächter darstellen. Das zeigt sich im speziellen Fall seiner «Madama Butterfly» darin, wie ein Bemühen um Authentizität im Kolorit und der Melodik bemerkbar ist. Natürlich ist «Butterfly» dann eine italienische Oper geworden. Doch eine, in welcher gerade dieses Problem der kulturellen Aneignung Thema ist. Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton, ein in Japan stationierter amerikanischer Marineoffizier, geht mit der als Geisha tätigen Adligen Cio Cio San eine Scheinehe ein, die diese jedoch für wahrhaftig hält. Für ihn ist Cio Cio San, alias Butterfly, nur ein exotisches Tier, ein Schmetterling, den man aufspiesst und damit ja tötet, um sich an seiner Schönheit zu ergötzen. Für Butterfly dagegen sind der Marineoffizier und seine Heimat Amerika der Traum einer besseren Welt. Sofort nach der Hochzeit reist Pinkerton nach Hause und kommt drei Jahre später nach Japan zurück. Mit seiner «richtigen» Frau, die er, während Cio Cio San auf ihn wartete, in den USA geheiratet hatte. Als Butterfly das erkennt, bringt sie sich um. Puccini verwebt unterschiedlichste musikalische Idiome in seiner Oper, vor allem um den Gegensatz von westlicher und fernöstlicher Kultur hörbar zu machen. So kommt wie ein brutales Signal die heutige amerikanische Nationalhymne vor. Die japanische Färbung erreicht er in der Orchestrierung durch Instrumente wie Tamtams, also japanische Gongs, in verschiedenen Grössen oder japanische Glocken. Und mit einem erotischen Lied, das allerdings aus China stammt. Dieses ist das musikalische Thema der tragischen Titelheldin. In einer halböffentlichen Diskothek diskutieren die Dirigentin Graziella Contratto und der Musikwissenschaftler Anselm Gerhard mit Benjamin Herzog Puccinis 1904 in der Mailänder Scala uraufgeführte Oper. Erstsendung: 25.06.2022

[@ 1 min] It's the return of TKO, when we pit two sopranos against each other, one American and one Italian, in the obstacle course that is Madama Butterfly… [@ 39 min] And then, Ermonela Jaho, one of the undisputed great Cio-Cio San's of our time, takes a Free Throw on her signature role. [@ 55 min] And, in the listener mailbag, a field report on the Met's production of Grounded. [@ 1 hr] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill'…Harmonia Mundi sells its soul? I mean, I guess it is almost Halloween… GET YOUR VOICE HEARD operaboxscore.com facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

fWotD Episode 2699: Pinkerton (album) Welcome to Featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia’s finest articles.The featured article for Tuesday, 24 September 2024 is Pinkerton (album).Pinkerton is the second studio album by the American rock band Weezer, released on September 24, 1996, by DGC Records. The guitarist and vocalist Rivers Cuomo wrote most of Pinkerton while studying at Harvard University, after abandoning plans for a rock opera, Songs from the Black Hole. It was the last Weezer album to feature the bassist Matt Sharp, who left in 1998. To better capture their live sound, Weezer self-produced Pinkerton, creating a darker, more abrasive album than their self-titled 1994 debut. Cuomo's lyrics express loneliness and disillusionment with the rock lifestyle. The title comes from the character BF Pinkerton from Giacomo Puccini's 1904 opera Madama Butterfly, whom Cuomo described as an "asshole American sailor similar to a touring rock star". Like the opera, the album contains references to Japanese culture.Pinkerton produced the singles "El Scorcho" and "The Good Life". It debuted at number 19 on the US Billboard 200, failing to meet sales expectations. It received mixed reviews; Rolling Stone readers voted it the third-worst album of 1996. For subsequent albums, Cuomo returned to more traditional pop songwriting and less personal lyrics.In subsequent years, Pinkerton was reassessed and achieved acclaim. Several publications named it one of the best albums of the 1990s, and it was certified platinum in 2016. It was credited as an influence by several emo bands.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:08 UTC on Tuesday, 24 September 2024.For the full current version of the article, see Pinkerton (album) on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm neural Justin.

On Episode 245 of Jake's Happy Nostalgia Show, we interview puppeteer, puppet builder and wrangler Ben Durocher! For 8 years, Ben was a puppet wrangler for Sesame Street, including various specials and the spin-off series The Furchester Hotel and The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo. He was also a puppet fabricator on The Happytime Murders and was an additional puppeteer on the Apple TV+ series Helpsters. Recently, Ben has worked as a puppeteer on the Apple TV+ series Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock as the body performer of Junior Gorg and a variety of background roles. On stage, Ben performed in Avenue Q, ImaginOcean and Madama Butterfly!

Com a bon verista, Puccini sempre va saber teixir i enfilar retrats precisos d'ambients, situacions i espais. En aquest cas, el Jap

Große Oper steht mit Giacomo Puccinis „Madama Butterfly“ bei den 60. Heidenheimer Opernfestspielen in der malerischen Ruine des Rittersaals von Schloss Hellenstein auf dem Spielplan. Im Festspielhaus präsentiert der künstlerische Leiter und Dirigent Marcus Bosch eine Entdeckung aus Verdis Frühwerk: die selten gespielte Oper „Alzira“.

Al igual que Madama Butterfly de Puccini cierra el lunes esta temporada del Teatro Real, Joan Matabosch es el responsable de despedir "Buena música para gañanes y gañanas" en nuestro cierre de temporada. En esta ocasión, nos presenta un adelanto de la programación 2024/2025 del Teatro Real que se centrará sobre todo en el s. XVIII. Estos son algunos de los títulos que podremos disfrutar: 1) Adriana Lecouvreur de Francesco Cilea (del 23 de septiembre al 11 de octubre, en la semana de la ópera). 2) Maria Stuarda de Gaetano Donizetti (del 14 al 30 diciembre, siendo el estreno de esta producción)3) Eugene Oneguin de Chaikovski (del 22 enero al 18 febrero, en honor a Aleksandr Pushkin)4) Mitridate, re di Ponto de Mozart (del 23 de marzo al 9 de abril, compuesta cuando tenía 14 años) 5) Les Indias Galantes de Jean-Phillipe Rameau (del 28 mayo al 1 de junio, un híbrido entre la ópera y la danza)6) I Lombardi Alla Prima Crociata de Verdi (del 6 y el 9 de julio, se presentarán otros dos títulos suyos)Escuchar audio

Inside this Episode with host, Mitch Hampton I seem to never tire of saying that among my many missions on this podcast is to have guests that are quite different than myself. Although Christine and I are both musicians and in the music world, I can't carry a tune to save my life and my truly awful singing voice is one of the main reasons I decided to purely instrumental music in terms of my own performance.  Not only does our guest have one of the best singing voices  in her for any field or genre of music but she also speaks five plus languages and is well versed in a remarkably diverse repertoire of music Indeed her newest release is representative of just the kind of eclecticism I always champion. I always love having guests on my show who have been in the "classical music" world as it is a genre most misunderstood at times by the public and always worthy of continuation and celebration. I sincerely hope you enjoy watching this episode as much as we did recording it. Ms. Moore's Bio : ( Full Bio on her website below) Praised by the Leipziger Volkszeitung for her lush sound and powerful expression, soprano Christine Moore Vassallo is a versatile performer with equal command in opera, recital, and contemporary music.  The Sacramento, California native counts among her many opera roles Mimi in La Boheme, the title role Madama Butterfly, Alice Ford in Falstaff, Micaela in Carmen, the title role in Suor Angelica, Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro, Judith in Bluebeard's Castle, Leonora in Il Trovatore (described as "velvety and luscious" by SongWordSight Magazine), the title roles in Aida and Ariadne auf Naxos with such companies as the Leipzig Opera, Central City Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Chautauqua Institute, Utopia Opera, Create Opera, the Aldeburgh Summer Festival, Sacramento Opera, the Amato Opera and Lyric Artists of New York. She curated and performed in the first ever concert of Arab composers, entitled "Nearer to East: Chamber Music from the Arab World" at the Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center, which concert was lauded by the Library as one of the outstanding of the year. Christine speaks five languages and sings in ten, and has given numerous solo recitals featuring works of all genres of repertoire and languages, including in Granada and Madrid with Festival de Cancion Espanola, Trinity Concert Series in New York, the Library at Lincoln Center, Merkin Concert Hall, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and the Old Stone House, Brooklyn. She made her UK debut in 2005 at the Paxton Chamber Music Festival in Scotland with Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire (praised by the Glasgow Herald) and has performed many new works by living composers, including the premiere at Merkin Hall NYC of Richard Thompson's song cycle The Shadow of Dawn as well as the NYC premiere of his opera The Mask in the Mirror, Andrew Rudin's Masha's Arias, and works by Michael Rose, Kareem Roustom, Halim El-Dabh, Richard Cameron-Wolfe, Steve Gerber and Zaid Jabri with the Brooklyn New Music Collective.  In 2016 she founded the singers collective Lyric Artists of New York, producing operas and concerts in the New York area. In 2023 she made her Weill Hall at Carnegie debut, and is currently collaborating on a project with composer and pianist Patricio Molina set to premiere in 2025 of his songs set to Arab women poets of the Andalus period. Album webpage on the Meridian Records website: https://www.meridian-records.co.uk/acatalog/CDE84647-From-Al-Andalus-to-the-Americas.html  Christine's Website: www.christinemooresoprano.com #middleeast #egypt #spain #oud #darbuka #andalus #soprano #classicalmusic #flute ##arabic #folkmusic #latinamerica #meridianrecords #istanbul #farsi #opera #newyorkcity #artsong  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mitch-hampton/support

Solomea: Star of Opera's Golden Age by Andriy J Semotiuk https://amzn.to/3ya7Y3A Myworkvisa.com What does it take to reach the very top of your profession or calling? How does one rise from humble beginnings to achieve greatness and to perform with other first-class artists on the world stage? How do you break through barriers blocking you from reaching success because you are not the "right kind" of person? How do you break through the glass ceiling as a woman? As a parent or grandparent, where can one find a great model for children or even grandchildren to emulate? These are just some of the questions answered in this book. Solomea Krushelnytska was hailed as the world's leading dramatic soprano during the Golden Age of opera at the turn of the 20th century. Born in 1872 into a family with eight children in a small village in Western Ukraine, she studied opera and battled her way to superstardom while performing with opera legends like composer Giacomo Puccini, director Arturo Toscanini, and tenor Enrico Caruso. Working with Arturo Toscanini, she played the lead roles of Salome and Elktra in the premiers of these operas in Italy. Among other major successes, Krushelnytska helped Giacomo Puccini rescue the opera Madama Butterfly from its failed debut at La Scala in Milan in 1904 by playing the lead role of Cio-Cio-San in the opera's re-creation in the Teatro Grande in Brescia, Italy later that year. Thanks to their joint efforts, Madama Butterfly remains one of the most popular operas to this day. She also played other leading roles in major opera houses in Europe, South America, North America, and Northern Africa. Throughout her career, she shared the fruits of her success with her family. Towards the end of her career, she moved back to Western Ukraine on the eve of World War II. Her beautiful voice was then drowned out by the gunfire of Soviet and Nazi armies and she was reduced to struggling for survival. Yet reverence for her talent likely helped her escape most of the ultraviolence that rampaged through her city at that time. Throughout the world war, she sheltered the author's mother, aunt, and grandparents in her apartment. She spent her final years in Lviv, teaching at the same place where her rise to fame and fortune had begun. Told from the perspective of her grand nephew Andriy Semotiuk, with intimate details related to his family's immigrant experience never before shared, her rags-to-riches life story is an amazing odyssey, a triumph of the human spirit, an incredible testament to her dedication to art, and an inspiration to people everywhere.

Every so often I discover a singer who had previously not come under my radar, but who simply blows me away with their voice, artistry, and communicative powers. Such an artist is the Baton Rouge-born African American soprano Lenora Lafayette (1926-1975), historically important as the first Black artist to perform at Covent Garden. Relocating to Basel shortly after finishing her training under Dusolina Giannini at Juilliard, Lafayette encountered early career success in Switzerland, winning the Geneva Competition and making a highly successful debut at the Basel Opera as Aida, a role which, along with Madama Butterfly, she performed hundreds of times. And yet, despite enormous career success in Europe, she was never able to establish herself in her native country. Her recorded legacy is slim but revelatory: an Aida in German under Clemens Krauss; a 1958 BBC recording of Frederick Delius's opera Koanga; and a single commercial recording of Puccini duets with Welsh tenor Richard Lewis under the baton of John Barbirolli, who also led her Covent Garden debut. All of these precious documents are sampled on this episode. She was struck down with cancer in her early forties and died prematurely at the age of 49. And yet listening to her recordings, one is struck by the emotional power of her utterance, the firmness of her vocal technique, and the bloom of her exquisite voice. Lenora Lafayette deserves a place among the greatest singers of her generation. This episode was first published during Countermelody's second season; listening to Lafayette again, I realize just how accurate my initial impressions of her were. Countermelody is a podcast devoted to the glory and the power of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great singers of the past and present focusing in particular on those who are less well-remembered today than they should be. Daniel's lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and “inside stories.” At Countermelody's core is the celebration of great singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. By clicking on the following link (https://linktr.ee/CountermelodyPodcast) you can find the dedicated Countermelody website which contains additional content including artist photos and episode setlists. The link will also take you to Countermelody's Patreon page, where you can pledge your monthly support at whatever level you can afford. Bonus episodes available exclusively to Patreon supporters are currently available and further bonus content including interviews and livestreams is planned for the upcoming season.

A cura di Paolo PellegriniGiacomo Puccini Madama ButterflyCio Cio San, Toti Dal MontePinkerton, Beniamino GigliSharpless, Mario BasiolaSuzuki, Vittoria PalombiniKate Pinkerton, Maria HuderGoro, Adelio ZagonoraIl principe Yamadori, Gino ContiLo zio Bonzo, Ernesto DominiciCoro e Orchestra del Teatro Reale dell'Opera di RomaOliviero De Fabritiis, direttore1939(STU)

While it may have taken a few detours for Jonathan Tetelman to become the opera star he is today, the journey has been well worth it. Tetelman initially found success with his voice quite young, singing in the American Boychoir School and recording with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Yet following years of vocal study, Tetelman stepped away from the arias to become a nightclub DJ in New York City. It was only upon realizing that opera was indeed his passion that Tetelman returned to the genre and found incredible success in the great music halls and houses across the globe. Tetelman now captivates audiences with performances in Madama Butterfly, Carmen, and La Bohéme – and with his albums “Arias” and “The Great Puccini.” Jonathan Tetelman speaks with host Alec Baldwin about the challenging transition from baritone to tenor, the work he puts in behind-the-scenes to understand his characters and how he navigates the physical demands of his career.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

POPeracast host Jennifer Miller Hammel does a deep dive with co-librettiests Josh Shaw and Eiki Isomura before the revival of POP's hit Japanese/English production of Madama Butterfly. Get your tickets now!  They are going fast because the Opera America annual conference is in Los Angeles during the run. JACCC's Aratani Theatre Saturday June 1, 2024 | 7:00pm Sunday June 2, 2024 | 3:00pm Friday June 7, 2024 | 8:00pm Sunday June 9, 2024 | 3:00pm   2024-25 Season Tickets on sale NOW!

Phil Chan is a choreographer, director and ballet scholar who seven years ago decided to turn a longstanding frustration into a wellspring of activism. Although American entertainment had made great progress in eliminating the use of blackface, demeaning and wildly inaccurate depictions of Asians and Asian-ness continued to appear on ballet stages. He therefore teamed up with prima ballerina Georgina Pazcoguin to create Final Bow for Yellowface, an organization that started working with ballet companies in America and Europe to eliminate offensive depictions of Asians in their repertoires and help them find inventive and respectful ways to stage culturally problematic ballet classics.Their work has paid off, notching up notable successes here and abroad and changing the culture in ballet companies to value and welcome a broad array of artists. Phil distilled his ethos and tactics in his book “Final Bow for Yellow Face: Dancing Between Intention and Impact.”As a director and choreographer, Phil has put his own stamp on once-problematic Orientalist standards. Last year, he directed “Madama Butterfly” at Boston Lyric Opera in a production that The Boston Globe called “an invigorating and meaningful reclamation of Puccini's beloved opera.” Earlier this year he co-choreographed with Doug Fullerton the ballet “La Bayadère” at Indiana University, maintaining Auguste Petipa's choreography but moving the setting from a 19th century India sprung from a European imagination to the homegrown American exoticism of 1920s Hollywood.In this interview, Phil describes how he developed the mission and methods of Final Bow for Yellowface and explains how reexamining the standard ballet repertoire through a multicultural contemporary lens honors and benefits the artform as a whole.https://www.yellowface.org/

Today's episode is one of my Listeners' Favorites episodes, this one introduced by my wonderful friend Thom Baker. He had just written me about his enthusiasm for the Rosanna Carteri episode I posted in the fall of 2020 on the occasion of her death, just a few short weeks before her 90th birthday. Thom and I were both equally taken with this long-lived artist, who abandoned her performing career in 1966 when she was only 35 years old, brought her full-throated voice and impeccable artistry to operatic stages around the world for fifteen exceptional years. Carteri's was a lyric yet full-bodied voice with facility that allowed her to undertake soubrette parts as well as some spinto roles. I feature extended examples of her versatility over the course of that entire career, including excerpts from La traviata, La bohème, La rondine, Guglielmo Tell, Falstaff, L'elisir d'amore, Madama Butterfly, Roméo et Juliette, Otello, Pietro Mascagni's L'amico Fritz and Iris, Prokofiev's War and Peace (the final version of which she created in Florence in 1954), the premiere recording of Poulenc's Gloria and Gilbert Bécaud's Opéra d'Aran (which she premiered in Paris in 1962). These operas represent just a fraction of her repertoire, in which are featured, among others, Giuseppe di Stefano, Nicolai Gedda, Leonard Warren, Carlo Bergonzi, Ettore Bastianini, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Giuseppe Taddei, Cesare Valletti, and Giuseppe Gismondo and conductors Tullio Serafin, Pierre Monteux, Vittorio Gui, Georges Prêtre, Gabriele Santini, and Artur Rodzinski. In other words, the crème de la crème of the operatic firmament in the 1950s and 1960s, in which company Carteri most emphatically belonged. Countermelody is a podcast devoted to the glory and the power of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great singers of the past and present focusing in particular on those who are less well-remembered today than they should be. Daniel's lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and “inside stories.” At Countermelody's core is the celebration of great singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. By clicking on the following link (https://linktr.ee/CountermelodyPodcast) you can find the dedicated Countermelody website which contains additional content including artist photos and episode setlists. The link will also take you to Countermelody's Patreon page, where you can pledge your monthly support at whatever level you can afford.

Members of Congress have launched an investigation into Oceanside-based Frontwave Credit Union. In other news, San Diego is looking to add tens of thousands of new homes in Hillcrest, and with the neighborhood short on open space, some are looking to the 163 freeway for a new park. Plus, coming up at San Diego Civic Theater this weekend, is San Diego Opera's Madama Butterfly. We get a behind-the-scenes look at what goes into making the grand production.

Jonathan Tetelman is quickly becoming one of the opera world's most in-demand tenors — not only for the distinctive radiance and warmth of his voice, but also for the wide palette of emotions he brings to the characters he portrays. But as I discovered during a recent sit-down with Tetelman, early in his career the Chilean-American singer had many doubts about whether he could take on the deeply dramatic roles he's become known for. In fact, he almost pulled out of one of his first big European engagements — portraying Paolo in Riccardo Zandonai's Francesca da Rimini at Deutsche Oper Berlin — because of that self-doubt. "I knew the story and thought it would be a good challenge for me," Tetelman shared in our conversation. "But as I was preparing the role, I noticed how heavy and difficult the role was, and I almost pulled the plug on the whole thing, because I felt like I wasn't ready to do it." Then the Covid-19 pandemic forced the world into lockdown, which gave Tetelman six months to immerse himself in the role, unpack its complexities, and build the mental and physical fortitude he needed to make Paolo a character of flesh and blood — not an easy feat for a young singer. "To perform this very dramatic role at 32 was really kind of an eye-opening experience, and an exciting possibility for me to perform other dramatic repertoire in the future. At the time I was really only singing things like Rodolfo and Alfredo, much more lyric repertoire. To get a taste of the verismo, it hooked me immediately." Tetelman credits his success in that production to its director, Christof Loy. "It was the first time I worked with a director who helped me bring out my characterization, and also helped me understand the characterization of my colleagues in a better way. Working with him really challenged me, but it was the thing that was kind of missing in my presentation. From then on I used a lot of the tools and ideas that he gave me for this production." Those tools and ideas have only increased Tetelman's meteoric rise in the years since that Deutsche Oper Berlin production. His first two albums for Deutsche Grammophon, 2022's Arias and last year's The Great Puccini, received rave reviews, with the former winning Tetelman the 2023 Opus Klassik Award for Young Talent of the Year. And this month he's bringing the nuanced approach to character-building he honed with Loy to two major Puccini role debuts at the Metropolitan Opera: Ruggero in a new production of La Rondine, and the naval officer Pinkerton in Anthony Minghella's Madama Butterfly. For Tetelman, building a legacy in the opera world now means not only bringing artistry to the music he performs, but also caring for the characters represented in opera — and helping audiences see themselves in the emotional turmoil and triumph these characters experience. "They're supposed to be human and they're supposed to be full of emotion and everything that embodies humanity. And I think the music is just the vessel that allows us to feel those emotions. I want to be one of those people who can really bring those things out, and help other people understand and feel what these characters feel." Madama Butterfly is on stage at the Metropolitan Opera through May 11. Tetelman's latest album, The Great Puccini, is available across all major streaming platforms. — Classical Post® is created and produced by ⁠Gold Sound Media⁠® LLC, a leading New York marketing agency serving the performing arts industry. Explore how we can ⁠grow your audience⁠ to make a lasting impact in your community.

Recently, I chatted with author Sophia Lambton about her book, "The Callas Imprint: A Centennial Biography". If you are a fan of Callas, which I am, this book offers you a deep dive into her life, born from extensive research, debunking popular theories and offering an authentic portrayal. Twelve years in the making "The Callas Imprint" reaps never-before-seen correspondence and archival documents worldwide—closing in on the self-contradictions of Callas, her attitudes and habits with empathic scrutiny. It swivels readers through the singer's on- and offstage scenes and flux of fears and dreams... the double life of all performers. Please enjoy!To order on Amazon, visit.Maria Callas sings Puccini: Tosca - 'Vissi d'Arte' at Covent Garden 1964  c/o Warner Classics[Maria Callas' final appearance on the operatic stage was in Tosca ​at Covent Garden's 1965 Royal Gala. ​​​For many opera lovers, Maria Callas and Tosca's Vissi d'Arte ​are inseparable. "I lived for art; I lived for love" became La Divina's cri de coeur, ​​​​her swansong, the perfect expression of her own triumphs and tragedies. This unrivaled recording is from that legendary Zeffirelli production in  1964 and is one of just many jewels in the Maria Callas Live edition.] __________________________________________________________________About Steven, HostSteven is a Canadian composer & actor living in Toronto. Through his music, he creates a range of works, with an emphasis on the short-form genre—his muse being to offer the listener both the darker and more satiric shades of human existence. If you're interested, please check out his music website for more. Member of the Canadian League Of Composers.__________________________________________________________________You can FOLLOW ME on Instagram.

Sonya Yoncheva - Szilvia Vörös - Charles Castronovo - Boris Pinkhasovich - Andrea Giovannini - Hiroshi Amako - Evgeny Solodovnikov Antonello Manacorda - Wiener Staatsoper - 20 June 2023 - In-house recording

Gilda Cruz-Romo - Kay Creed - Enrico Di Giuseppe - Franco Iglesias - David Clements - John Lankston - Will Roy Byron Dean Ryan - New York City Opera - 14 April 1970 - Broadcast

Anna Moffo - Huguette Tourangeau - Giuseppe Campora - Enzo Sordello - Mariano Caruso - James Morris - Joseph Fair Anton Guadagno - Philadelphia Lyric Opera - 31 March 1970 - In-house recording

Galina Vishnevskaya - Renata Babak - Vladislav Piavko - Alexey Bolshakov - Vitaly Vlasov - Yuri Dementiev - Viktor Gorbunov Mark Ermler - Bolshoi Theater - 26 November 1966 - Broadcast

Renata Scotto - Joann Grillo - John Alexander - John Robert Dunlap - Robert Schmorr - Russell Christopher - Norman Scott George Schick - Metropolitan Opera - 13 October 13 1965 - In-house recording

Welcome to Season Five of Countermelody! While I indulge in a much-needed break for the month of January (my first in four years!), I have asked a number of Countermelody fans and listeners to provide spoken introductions to some of their favorite episodes from the first three seasons of the podcast. Today conductor Brian Castles-Onion introduces an episode from June 2020, as we neared the height of the pandemic and the panic surrounding it. It is an interview with Ira Siff, artistic director of La Gran Scena Opera Company di New York, alter ego of the beloved “traumatic soprano” Vera Galupe-Borszkh, lecturer for the Metropolitan Opera Guild and Weekly Commentator on the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts. So much has changed for everyone since the interview was recorded in January 2020, most poignantly (as relates to this episode) the death of our beloved Chic Walker (who portrayed Dame Emily Post-Morddum and Alfredo Sorta-Pudgi in La Gran Scena) on 11 April 2022; and the passing of Renata Scotto on 16 August 2023. My association with Ira Siff and La Gran Scena Opera Company di New York goes back more than thirty years, when Ira provided me with my first employment as a professional singer when my alter ego Daniela della Scarpone sang for two years with the renowned travesty opera company. I sat down with Ira in his East Village apartment in January 2020 for a wide-ranging interview in which we discuss his early days as a standee at the old Met (where some of his opera-going experiences included Maria Callas's final Tosca performances, Renata Scotto's 1965 debut as Madama Butterfly, and Leonie Rysanek's wild traversals of Verdi and Wagner). He discusses his first performing experiences in the early 1970s in association with Al Carmines and others, the genesis of La Gran Scena and their development into a worldwide phenomenon, and his subsequent “legitimate” career as lecturer, stage director, vocal coach and voice teacher and commentator all stemmed from in his words, “getting in a dress and singing soprano,” which he dubs “the strangest part.” This is a free-wheeling and extremely Opera Queeny interview, peppered with Ira's unique anecdotes and snippets from Gran Scena (and other!) performances. Today's guest host Brian Castles-Onion is one of Australia's most exciting and well-known opera conductors. Completing his tertiary studies at the Newcastle Conservatorium of Music, his outstanding achievements speak for themselves. He has worked at New York's Metropolitan Opera, the Julliard School of Music and the Rossini Festival in Italy, and has held the position of Artistic Director of Canterbury Opera in New Zealand. He currently continues his long run association with Opera Australia. His conducting experience includes well over five hundred opera performances throughout Australia, Asia and New Zealand alone. He was on the podium for Opera Australia's 40th Anniversary Gala and 60th Anniversary Gala, The Robert Allman Farewell Gala and conducted the Dame Joan Sutherland State Memorial Service – which was broadcast internationally on television and radio. His book Losing the Plot in Opera has been a Best Seller in Australia and the UK. Brian became a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2017 Australia Day Honours List. Today's interviewee and subject, Ira Siff, is a native New Yorker, who grew up on the standing room line of the old Metropolitan Opera, worshiping the famous singers of the 60's. A graduate of the Cooper Union, with a degree in Fine Arts, Mr. Siff began to study voice, and made his debut as a tenor in 1970. For the next decade, he performed roles in opera, operetta and musicals in New York, at The New York Shakespeare Festival, Circle in the Square, Playwrights Horizons, and many other venues. Turning to cabaret, Ira created an act using vocal parody of opera, jazz, and other styles of music, gaining critical acclaim, and a loyal following. In 1981, he founded La Gran Scena Opera Company di New Yor...

On this week's episode of Rising Giants we have the pleasure of speaking with Gabriele Faja, CEO of Soundskool Music and Producer of Madama Butterfly Opera. Gabi was born in Italy and grew up in a home with parents that were both classical musicians where he grew a passion for music at an early age. He then attended the Royal College of Music in London where he graduated in classical music performance and began his journey as a founder in the world of music. His journey led him to Cambodia with his brother and in 2011 he founded Soundskool Music. Since then, Gabi has taken on different roles including Director of Production for Madama Butterfly Opera. Key Points From the Show: Discussing Gabi's passion for music and his journey moving from London to Cambodia First Mover Founder: Building Soundskool and the challenges faced as a founder in the music and retail space Bringing the opera to Cambodia: What's in store with the production of Madama Butterfly Purchase your tickets today for Madama Butterfly Opera on December 10th, 2023 at the Koh Pich Theatre in Phnom Penh using the following link!: https://www.madama-butterfly.org/tickets/ Follow RG on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: ⁠@risinggiantsfm⁠ All RG links: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/risinggiantsfm

Tenor Jonathan Tetelman marks the Puccini centenary by paying homage to one of the best-loved Italian opera composers The Great Puccini includes both favorite arias and rarities, with extracts from Il Tabarro, La bohème, La fanciulla del West, La Rondine, Le villi, Madama Butterfly, Manon Lescaut, Tosca and Turandot.Track Listing:1 Donna non vidi mai [Manon Lescaut, SC 64]2 Nessun dorma [Turandot, SC 91]3 Parigi! E la citta dei desideri [La rondine, SC 83]4 Che gelida manina [La bohème, SC 67]5 O soave fanciulla [La bohème, SC 67]6 Dunque è proprio finita! [La bohème, SC 67]7 Dammi i colori! Recondita armonia [Tosca, SC 69]8 Mario Cavaradossi? ... E lucevan le stelle [Tosca, SC 69]9 Ah! Manon, mi tradisce [Manon Lescaut, SC 64]10 Che giova? ... Io so che alle sue pene [Madama Butterfly, SC 74]11 Quello che tacete [La fanciulla del West, SC 78]12 Ch'ella mi creda [La fanciulla del West, SC 78]13 O Luigi! Luigi! ... Dimmi, perché gli hai chiesto [Il tabarro, SC 85]14 Non piangere, Liu [Turandot, SC 91]15 Torna ai felici dì [Le Villi, SC 60]Help support our show by purchasing this album  at:Downloads (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by Uber. @CMDHedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber#AppleClassical Please consider supporting our show, thank you!Donate (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com This album is broadcasted with the permission of Crossover Media Music Promotion (Zachary Swanson and Amanda Bloom).

For each and every performance the theater director, playwright, choreographer, and sound and lighting designer Robert Wilson creates, time isn't just of the essence—it is the essence. Perhaps best known as the director of the four-act opera Einstein on the Beach, which he composed with Philip Glass and debuted in 1976, Wilson now has nearly 200 stage productions to his name. These include Dorian, which premiered last year in Düsseldorf, and The Life and Death of Marina Abramović, which opened at the Manchester International Festival in 2011. What stands out about Wilson's work, among many things, is its rare ability to disorient viewers while also enchanting them. Duration is often another part of the equation: Some of the performances on Wilson's résumé have ranged from seven hours to an astonishing seven days. Many critics, writers, and scholars have agreed that Wilson has completely reshaped the landscape of theater, vastly expanding its vocabularies and horizons.On this episode, Wilson talks about his personal philosophies around silence and sound, the intersections of architecture and theater, and his enduring vision for the Watermill Center.Special thanks to our Season 8 sponsor, Van Cleef & Arpels.Show notes:[04:31] The King of Spain[04:32] The Life and Times of Sigmund Freud[04:34] Deafman Glance[04:59] John Cage[09:02] Madama Butterfly[13:51] “Time to Think”[14:34] Marina Abramović[16:37] The Ring[16:39] King Lear[16:41] Einstein on the Beach[16:43] Philip Glass[18:14] Parsifal[18:50] The Watermill Center[28:55] Dorian[32:09] Time Rocker[32:15] Lou Reed[34:27] Ka Mountain and Guardenia Terrace[39:28] Festival of Autumn in Paris[40:38] The Golden Windows[41:04] Pratt Institute[43:45] Medea[44:48] Edison[44:58] Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights[45:00] Relative Calm[46:32] H-100 Seconds to Midnight[52:27] The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin[52:40] A Letter for Queen Victoria

Mark Salyer is an award-winning producer and director whose work in the arts and multi-media explores intergenerational themes, stories and mythology of the Appalachian Mountains where he is from and the LGBTQ+ experience.As an actor and director in the theater, Mark has won numerous awards and performed across the country and abroad. His Hedwig in the Atlanta premier of Hedwig and the Angry Inch was both a critical and commercial success. He performed in the ruins of Delphi for the International Symposium on Greek Drama playing a gender-fluid Electra in Sophocles' tragedy. In Los Angeles, he co-created the four partharmony drag show She Haw which enjoyed a long run at Largo. Directing highlights include Williams' Suddenly Last Summer, Madama Butterfly, Sondheim's Into the Woods, Cabaret, An Evening with Stephen Schwartz starring Ben Vereen and Corbin Bleu and the Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center's gala opening performance of Big River.In 2012, he created NewStages, a dynamic and ground-breaking performing arts program for and about LGBTQ+ seniors. NewStages has reached thousands in the Los Angeles queer community through dynamic classes and workshops, innovative intergenerational projects and an annual Pride Arts Festival production featuring the seniors of the LA LGBT Center in a performance of music, theater, and danceinspired by their remarkable life stories.In 2016, he co-founded ARAY Productions with his co-Appalachian Melissa Palmer. Since then, ARAY has produced projects that are by and about the people of Central Appalachia, including the award-winning short Ladies Most Deject directed by Martha Elcan and starring Conner Wharton.Mark lives in Palm Springs and in Los Angeles with his husband of 31 years. He is currently working on abook about art and aging.