TRANSCRIPT Meet Semiramide, legendary queen of Babylon, where murder, intrigue and unholy secrets reign supreme. But who angered the gods? Starring Angela Meade, Elizabeth DeShong, Ildar Abdrazakov, ...
The life and exploits of Semiramis, the legendary queen of Assyria from the 9th century BC, seems to have held a peculiar fascination for 17th and 18th-century opera composers and librettists. The ...
Concert opera companies often end up specializing in a form of opera akin to an athletic event: The focus is turned from the drama onto the physical feat of producing the sound. The Washington Concert ...
This masterpiece of dazzling vocal fireworks makes a rare Met appearance-its first in nearly 25 years-with Maurizio Benini on the podium. The all-star Bel Canto cast features Angela Meade in the title ...
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We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Marilyn Horne news every morning. It can be hard to take Semiramide seriously. Audiences in Venice in 1823, when Rossini’s last opera ...
Outstanding performances by Joyce DiDonato, Lawrence Brownlee and Daniela Barcellona illuminate David Alden’s occasionally cluttered vision of this Rossini rarity Rossini’s great 1823 tragedy, his ...
Even by the florid standards of bel canto opera, Rossini throws down a particularly elaborate gauntlet for the lead singers in “Semiramide.” At the Venetian Theater at Caramoor on Friday night, a ...
John Copley's production takes place in Ancient Babylon, where Assur comes to the temple of Baal in hopes that Queen Semiramide will choose him as the successor to the fallen King Nino. His plans for ...
We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. After 25 years, the Metropolitan Opera has revived John Copley’s production of Rossini’s last and most ...
Scholarly opinion informs me that Semiramide is one of Rossini’s crowning achievements – his farewell to Italian opera, based on a tragedy by Voltaire, with a title role designed to show off the ...