Opera-Comique in three acts (here performed in English but originally in French). Running Time: 2 hours. OperaScribe reviewed this opera in June and I ended up enjoying it so much that I decided to review it myself (he has also been complaining that I don’t do any 18th century operas). Do not expect the raunchiness […]
Opera in tre atti. Running time: 2 hours 3 minutes (with four minute appendix). Auguste Rodin: The Burghers of Calais. This is Donizetti’s anti-female opera, the apogee of the composer’s desire to distance himself completely from the then current convention of prima donna supremacy in Italian opera. The work does call for three female voices […]
Opera in tre atti. Running Time: 2 hours. Just an FYI for those of you paying attention before the review: I successfully defended my MA thesis in history a little over a week ago and will be graduating in November. Thank you. This opera was written, not surprisingly, as a vehicle for soprano Giuseppina Strepponi, […]
Opera in two acts. Running Time: 1 hour 55 minutes. I finished this one in January and kept it back because I really wasn’t sure what to do with it. Then I found that Moniuszko also wrote an opera based on the same play and I figured I would match them up as frames for […]
Opera in three acts. Running Time: 1 hour 4 minutes. Written in 1887 to a libretto by Julius Zeyer with whom Janacek had not attained permission, and then send to Dvorak (whom Zeyer wanted to set his verses), this first attempt by Janacek to compose an opera had to wait until 1925 to be performed. […]
Opera in three acts (generally performed as two). Running Time: 1 hour 48 minutes. I started out this review with a performance from Scotland in English so I could get a grasp of what the opera is about, which didn’t really help all that much, although the performance in Czech I am including in this […]
Opera in three acts. Running Time: 2 hours 32 minutes. Sort of a connector to our all-Smetana month, a more modern Slovak opera based on Moravian history! So this is very different. Yes, this is a sort of post-Wagnerian work by an Eastern European composer (Slovakian specifically, and Suchon lived from 1908 to 1993, so […]
