The Telegraph site will live-stream Brett Dean’s much-praised new opera from Glyndebourne on Thursday. All you need to do is click here.
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Live-Stream Glynderbourne’s Hamlet Is Coming Your Way
OPERA
What To Wear To The Opera
Should you dress up for the opera? For traditionalists, it’s an occasion that demands formal evening wear. Others insist audience members should simply wear the clothes in which they feel most comfortable.
Today, few opera houses enforce a dress code. Visit the Royal Opera House or the English National Opera, and you’ll see dinner jackets and evening gowns rub shoulders with leather jackets and open-necked shirts.
Daniel Kramer, artistic director of the ENO, says: “Central to everything we do is the belief that high-quality, amazing opera should be accessible to absolutely everyone. We are passionate about breaking down any perceived barriers to opera that people may have, from price to dress code.
“Although the debate about what to wear to the opera has moved on, with almost all of our audience happily turning up wearing whatever they feel most comfortable in, the way opera is presented in a lot of popular culture can be at odds with this.
“Opera is the most moving art form on Earth. It has the power to challenge, to entertain, to devastate and to inspire, whether its audience is wearing a tiara and ball gown or a T-shirt and jeans.”
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The Maladizione of the Opera di Roma
Italy gave birth to opera, but in its home country the art form now carries a distinct air of maledizione (curse). Of Italy’s 14 major opera houses—the ones supported by the federal government—12 are in the red. The Opera di Roma is now one of two major Italian opera houses to be making a profit.
On the other hand, opera is now one of two major Italian opera houses to be making a profitis booming in new markets such as China and South Korea, but Italy has a responsibility to keep the genre alive.
At American and British opera houses, corporate sponsors and philanthropists top up public funding.
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A Vocal Masterclass with Antonio Pappano and Jonas Kaufmann
[News] Film Director Wim Wenders Makes A Successful Opera Debut
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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Francesco Meli – Giovanna D’Arco
50th Anniversary Gala: Joseph Calleja “Che gelida manina”