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London. (International).(Royal Opera)(Opera Review)
Royal Opera's incoming music director, Antonio Pappano, stepped into the Covent Garden pit on September 6 to warm applause to conduct his first new production. The vehicle was Ariadne auf Naxos--assuredly a tricky assignment for everyone involved. Pappano brought with him director Christof Loy, one of his regular collaborators at his former domain, La Monnaie in Brussels. Loy's designer, Herbert Murauer, provided the audience with a coup de theatre minutes into the piece. The prologue began in the ultrachic foyer of a contemporary residence, where some of the characters began to arrive (in modern dress) for the evening's performance. A group stepped into the elevator to ...
- Royal Opera, Covent Garden.(LONDON)
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Forbes, Elizabeth September 1, 2005 700+ words
Royal Opera, Covent Garden, gave the world premiere...Lepage (making his Covent Garden debut), Carl Fillion...commitment, and the Royal Opera Orchestra played with...Verdi's Otello at Covent Garden was cast with unparalleled...
- Salome.(Royal Opera, Covent Garden)
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Dillon, Patrick June 1, 2008 700+ words
...s new production at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Feb. 21, With the action...Canadian tenor was making his Covent Garden debut in a role smaller than...my first Salome, also at Covent Garden and also with a Canadian Narraboth...
- Royal Opera, Covent Garden (A midsummer marriage; Semele; Gotterdammerung; La...
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Elizabeth Forbes June 22, 1996 700+ words
LONDON THE ROYAL OPERA, COVENT GARDEN Celebrated Michael Tippett's 90th birthday (a year late...more dated than it was in 1955, the year of its premiere at Covent Garden. Director Graham Vick and designer Paul Brown staged the work...
- The Rake's Progress.(Royal Opera, Covent Garden)
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Hunt, Brian September 1, 2008 700+ words
...Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress arrived at Royal Opera, Covent Garden in July from Brussels, Lyon, and, hopefully...likely to find these days. A huge factor in the Royal Opera's success was the conducting of Thomas Ades...
- Royal Opera, Covent Garden. (United Kingdom: London; Opera in Review).
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Forbes, Elizabeth September 22, 2002 700+ words
Though now 23 years old, the Royal Opera, Covent Garden's production of La Boheme, directed by John Copley and designed by Julia Trevelyan Oman, is still in fine shape. Ramon Vargas...
- The Royal Opera Covent Garden for 10 years. (Opera in Review: United Kingdom...
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Forbes, Elizabeth June 22, 2003 700+ words
...of Bill Bryden's and William Dudley's enchanting production of The Cunning Little Vixen, absent from the Royal Opera Covent Garden for 10 years, brought much pleasure. Dawn Upshaw made her long-overdue house debut as the Vixen, with Joyce...
- Baritone Gerald Finley will open the Royal Opera Covent Garden's 2003-4 season...
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada So, Joseph September 22, 2003 700+ words
Baritone Gerald Finley will open the Royal Opera Covent Garden's 2003-4 season in the title role of Mozart's Don Giovanni. Bass John Relyea will appear in that house as Raimondo in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor (Nov.-Dec.)
- Canadians are well represented in the 2005-6 season of the Royal Opera, Covent...
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada So, Joseph June 22, 2005 700+ words
Canadians are well represented in the 2005-6 season of the Royal Opera, Covent Garden. Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian will sing Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro opposite the Count of baritone Gerald Finley (Jan.-Feb...