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Sound bites.(Maria Bayo)(Brief Article)
Maria Bayo has managed to be polyglot in her musical choices, but her English isn't all she'd like it be--which leaves a choice of Spanish, German, Italian or French for an interview. "The next time you interview me," promises the Spanish soprano, "I will speak very good English."
With a lovely, small, silvery voice, Bayo has covered all the bases from Baroque to Romantic, Zerlina to zarzuela--even Lucia di Lammermoor and Amina in La Sonnambula. Her breakthrough came when she won the International Belvedere Competition in Vienna in 1988. Since then, she has gone on to a significant international career, particularly in Europe. Heard in Paris, London and Vienna, Hamburg and Berlin, she's also a regular guest in her "home houses" in Spain, where she sang Liu to widespread acclaim in the Turandot that opened Barcelona's rebuilt Gran Teatre del Liceu in 1999. After several appearances at the Salzburg Festival, she's following Gerard Mortier this year to his brand-new Ruhr-Triennale festival, where she makes a role debut as Donna Anna in the new Don Giovanni.
The portals of Baroque opera opened for Bayo with a Rene Jacobs/Herbert Wernicke production of Cavalli's La Calisto ...
- La Sonnambula.(Theater review)
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Hofler, Robert March 4, 2009 700+ words
...Zimmerman's staging of Bellini's "La Sonnambula" appears to offer a solution to money...OMITTED] That's the slim plot of "La Sonnambula": Sleep-walking Amina (Natalie...alternates between scenes of rehearsing "La Sonnambula" and more intimate scenes (the love...
- On the Booing of La Sonnambula
- Magazine article from: The Hudson Review Neher, Erick July 1, 2009 700+ words
...production of Vincenzo Bellini's La Sonnambula, was of a different order altogether...this public display of animosity? La Sonnambula is a work that has not entered the...innocent sleepwalker, a somnambulist. La Sonnambula is one of the bel canto operas, those...
- Sleep and Wakefulness Serve as Dueling Themes in a Present-Day Production of...
- Press release article from: Business Wire June 16, 2009 700+ words
...s production of the 1831 classic La Sonnambula, Latin for "The Somnambulist...of Bellini's professional operas, La Sonnambula is set in a tiny village on the Swiss...actors are staging a production of La Sonnambula set in the Swiss Alps. The story begins...
- Opera note.(Music)(Don Giovanni, Simon Boccanegra, Beatrice and Benedict,...
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Smith, Patrick J. November 1, 2004 700+ words
...Simon Boccanegra, Beatrice and Benedict, Agrippina & La Sonnambula at the Santa Fe Opera. The Santa Fe Opera had modest beginnings...international opera "star," Natalie Dessay, to sing Bellini's La Sonnambula. It's a bel canto exercise entirely foreign to Crosby...
- La Sonnambula.
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Crory, Neil December 1, 2008 700+ words
...19th century objects, letters and music manuscripts. One of Malibran's greatest successes was as Amina in Bellini's La sonnambula, a work appropriated by sopranos in the 20th century. On closer inspection of the original manuscript, however, Bartoli...
- La Sonnambula.(CDs)
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Crory, Neil June 1, 2008 700+ words
...little or no forward movement. As a result, the theatrical temperature rarely rises above tepid. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] La Sonnambula is a charming, rather silly tale--albeit overflowing with gorgeous Italianate cantilenas--about a beautiful mill maid...
- Lyric Opera soars with `La Sonnambula'
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Robert C. Marsh September 19, 1988 700+ words
...Chicago's musical life than the opening night of the Lyric Opera. It happened for the 34th time Saturday when Bellini's "La Sonnambula" was presented at the Civic Opera House. The warm weather produced an interesting mixture of summer and autumn fashions...
- Dream weaver: former Balanchine star Allegra Kent guides Miami City Ballet...
- Magazine article from: Dance Magazine Kent, Allegra October 1, 2005 700+ words
...ballerinas--Jennifer Kronenberg, Deanna Seay, and Haiyan Wu--in the role of the Sleepwalker in George Balanchine's La Sonnambula. This ballet (originally titled Night Shadow) and I go very far back together--in fact, back into the middle of the...
