Fresh Aria
Everyone loves Carmen, including me. A perfectly balanced mixture of comic, exotic and tragic elements, there is not one slack moment in the drama or the music. Carmen is a symbol of passion, a...
View ArticleLocal Troupe Reinvents Bawdy ?Operetta for the Small Stage?
A staggering-drunk puppet haltingly navigates his way through a lavish party thrown by a local dignitary. He punctuates nearly all conversations with pointed sexual come-ons to any woman within...
View ArticleRachel Perlmeter Brings Threepenny to the . . . Non-Stage
When it debuted in Berlin in 1928, The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) instantly turned old-fashioned opera into groundbreaking musical theater. It had a political edge, thanks to the lyrics of...
View ArticleVermont Native Son to Debut at La Scala
Wayne Hobbs isn’t answering his email. But who can blame him? The guy is probably a little preoccupied preparing for his debut at La Scala. That’s il Teatro alla Scala, in Milan, Italy. Hobbs, now 42,...
View ArticleVermont Vocalist Wants to Teach the World to Sing
Shyla Nelson’s crystalline soprano has enthralled Vermont opera fans and made her an in-demand guest soloist around the region; her upcoming performances this summer include roles at the Green Mountain...
View ArticleVignettes
Opera lovers in the Essex Junction area have until March 12 to sign up for a bus ride to and from the Palace 9 in South Burlington for its high-def “encore” presentation of Madama Butterfly on...
View ArticleGreen Mountain Opera Festival
6/12/09: The Green Mountain Opera Festival is in its fourth year in the Mad River Valley. This year they bring Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro to the Barre Opera House.Location: Valley Players...
View ArticleRoxy Music
High culture keeps rolling into the North Country. First Dartmouth College’s Hopkins Center, and then Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater and South Burlington’s Palace 9 Cinemagot the Metropolitan Opera...
View ArticleOpera Olé!
If you’re free at noon next Monday, how about a quick trip to Italy? That is, to drop in on opening night — yes, night — at the world’s most famous opera house, Teatro alla Scala in Milan. You don’t...
View ArticleCalling All Performers
Vermont thespians, dancers and singers: Been looking for a way to flaunt your talents onstage? If so, some new opportunities present themselves this month. This Saturday, March 6, the Vermont...
View ArticleOne Vermont Opera Company Sees Upheaval; Another, Expansion
Vermont’s small, vibrant opera world is rarely as dramatic behind the scenes as on its stages, but one recent development did come as a surprise. After seven years as the energetic director of the...
View ArticleOpera Theatre of Weston Storms Into 2013 With an All-Ages Show — and Cast
Last summer, Benjamin Britten’s 1957 opera Noye’s Fludde (“Noah’s Flood”) made a surprise appearance on the big screen in Wes Anderson’s remarkable film Moonrise Kingdom. The movie’s young stars meet...
View ArticleOpera Singers Latonia Moore and Jesus Garcia Perform with the VYO
Last March, an understudy at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, soprano Latonia Moore, gained instant fame when she stepped onto the stage with a day’s notice and sang the role of Aida in the opera of...
View ArticleHop Hosts an In-Progress Tesla Opera From Phil Kline and Jim Jarmusch
Unlike his colleague and rival, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla ended his days on this Earth poor and mentally unstable, despite having invented electrical alternating-current distribution and the radio....
View ArticleGreen Mountain Opera Kicks Off With Young Artists, Masters, Mystery and Humor
It’s a cliché in Vermont to say the hills are alive with the sound of music. But this week, that is literally true — just not with Rodgers and Hammerstein. The Green Mountain Opera Festival, which...
View ArticleWorld-Renowned Tenor Yonghoon Lee Sings in Middlebury
It’s not often that world-renowned opera stars make their way to Vermont. And it’s even rarer to see one on the order of acclaimed tenor Yonghoon Lee. Lee has sung the lead roles in the Metropolitan...
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