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New images of how the Royal Opera House will look when its multimillion-pound transformation is completed have been released.
Among the flagship changes of its multimillion-pound Open Up project are a complete redevelopment of the building’s main foyer and entrance, and redesigns of the Linbury Theatre and Clore Studio.
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Saudi Arabia is set to construct its first-ever opera house.
The kingdom announced that the house will be built as a move to shake off its conservative image and lure tourist dollars.
The announcement of the new opera house brought along the details that the building will be constructed in the Red Sea city of Jeddah on the kingdom’s western coast.
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On Feb. 10, 2018, audiences around the world will have their pick of watching two different “L’Elisir d’Amore” performances. The Met’s Live in HD program will showcase its own version, but the Vienna State Opera will live stream another performance around the same exact time.
The stream kicks off at 8 p.m. local time and is slated to run until around 10:15 p.m. That’s around 2 p.m. EDT and 11 a.m. PST for the start time.
Per the official website, tickets start at 14 euros (approximately $16 USD) and can be purchased right off the Vienna State Opera’s streaming website.
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The celebrated film director was cheered to the rafters last night in Berlin, at the end of Bizet’s Pearl Fishers. Wenders has been pursued for years by Bayreuth to stage an opera, on one occasion pulling out at the last moment. It took Daniel Barenboim to entice him onto the opera stage, to great acclaim.
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The opera firmament was shaken yesterday when a New York Times article, headlined “The Diva Departs: Renée Fleming’s Farewell to Opera,” landed online.
The lengthy piece gave the impression that Fleming, a beloved star of classical music and one of the most successful sopranos of her generation, was ready to call it quits as far as opera was concerned. Her ostensible final performance would come on May 13 in Richard Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier at New York’s Metropolitan Opera.
The key word here is “may.” Truth be told, Fleming has no plans to quit opera at all.
“I never said that I was stepping away from the opera stage for good. Never, never, never did I say that to anybody,” Fleming insisted in a phone conversation from her home in New York City earlier today.
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The German tenor will make his role debut as Tristan with the Boston Symphony Orchestra next season. Andris Nelsons will conduct the second act of the opera, with Camilla Nylund singing Isolde.
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The German tenor tells Corriere della Sera that he is ready to return to singing after a four-month break caused by bleeding on his vocal cords.
He expects to appear as Lohengrin in Paris on January 18.
‘It was really tough,’ he says. ‘I love to sing and never before have I been forced to such a long break. It was not easy, but what else could I do? I tried to be patient and do what the doctor prescribed. And ignore the gossip going around about my health…. Christa Ludwig, the great mezzo-soprano, had the same problem. She warned me: Jonas, do not come back to sing before the swelling has completely subsided.’
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