New York City Opera is at the forefront of New York's cultural season with Opening Night on Thursday, September 8, 2016 featuring two compelling ensemble casts in a new production double bill directed ...

‘Against fate there is no defense,” advises the Old Gypsy at the beginning of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s “Aleko.” These words of wisdom are, unfortunately, lost on the opera’s title character, who murders ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Andrés Presno as Turiddù and Anne-Marie Owens as Lucia in Cavalleria Rusticana - Tristram Kenton This double bill of short operas ...

In an era when musicians mine the dark corners of many composers’ output, searching for the odd masterpiece to bring to light, the operatic efforts of Sergei Rachmaninoff have remained oddly untouched ...

Setting Mascagni’s one-act opera amid the unease of 70s communist Poland, and moving Rachmaninoff’s to a colourful 90s surfing commune, the company does them both delectable justice Opera North’s ...

After hearing Leoncavallo's I PAGLIACCI on New York City Opera's new double bill with Rachmaninoff's ALEKO, I'll never think of it the same way again. PAGLIACCI is so familiar to modern audiences as ...

Opera North pairs Mascagni’s masterpiece with teenage Rachmaninov in a potent double bill. Plus, well-tuned extremes from Tenebrae and a blizzard of notes with Mahan Esfahani Whether in the shadow of ...

Opera North’s revival of Karolina Sofulak’s 2017 production foregrounds unexpected contrasts, with superb singing, original staging, and exceptional playing Giselle Allen, Andrés Presno & Anne-Marie ...

Passion, honor and death clashed at a recent back-to-back production of two short operas, Sergi Rachmaninoff’s Aleko and Pietro Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana, at the Israeli Opera. Sung in Russian ...

Colour everywhere: Robert Hayward as Aleko with Matthew Stiff as Zemfira’s father, Elin Pritchard as Zemfira and the Chorus of Opera North in Rachmaninov’s Aleko In Karolina Sofulak’s take on the ...

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If you’re looking for Mediterranean heat and Sicilian atmosphere you won’t find it in Opera North’s revival of Karolina Sofulak’s 2017 production of Mascagni’s slice of torrid verismo. However, the ...