Colon Theatre Buenos Aires

The venerable Teatro Colon reopened last May after three years of restoration works, with a star-studded opera calendar that includes Puccini’s La Bohème and Mozart’s Don Giovanni.  

The Teatro Colon of Buenos Aires has already presented its program for the 2010 Season. Happily, the companies will return to the theater’s concert hall that was re inaugurated on May 25th, 2010, with a Reopening Gala in celebration of the May Revolution Bicentenary. The 2010 Season will feature great figures as Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta Paloma Herrera, and Yo-Yo Ma.

The theater opened on May 25, 1908, the Día de la patria (Motherland Day) in Argentina, with a performance of Verdi’s Aida. It quickly became a world-famous operatic venue rivaling La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera in attracting artists.

With excellent acoustics and modern stage areas, the

Kiri Te Kanawa, A Concert To Remember

Looking back I would say that the year 2006 was a great one. This being the case since Italy won the World Cup and I got to see my idol, Kiri Te kanawa in concert at Warsaw’s philharmonic. As for Kiri Te Kanawa, it is this very elegant soprano from New Zealand who is one of my favorite all time singers. This due to not only her stupendous voice but acting ability which coupled with her beauty make her lovely not only to listen to but watch; specially in roles like “Maria” in the opera “Simon Buccanegra”. This being an opera by Verdi which I once bought on DVD many years ago given it not only had her in the main soprano part but Placido Domingo in the main tenor part of Gabriele, who happens to be the man engaged to Kiri Te Kanawa or at least in the opera.

I must say that it was after hearing this particular performance of “Simon Buccanegra” (recorded live at New York’s Metropolitan opera) that I become a fan of Te Kanawa; finding her dazzling in this

The Unwanted Gift

Parker Lee was on stage signing with that voice of his which could make opera arias so special that few would deny that his was talent of a rare kind. It was on this occasion as he sang the role of Othello in the Met that he felt the presence of all those who through out his career had supported him at times even more than he had himself. How this moment was a glorious one for him not only as a professional singer but as a person was something that perhaps only he truly felt though his sister Kim had a hint. As it had been her who through the gift she had given her brother so many years ago had inspired him (perhaps in directly) to become the great opera tenor he now was.

It was not so much that the particular performance he was giving had any significance to anybody other than himself but it had been 20 years since that day on which he received the gift from his sister that had changed his whole life and the direction it was going in and all those

The Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of operas in HD continues for its fourth season and features nine transmissions of the following operas: Puccini’s TOSCA, Verdi’s AIDA, Puccini’s TURANDOT, Offenbach’s THE TALES OF HOFFMANN, Strauss’ DER ROSEKAVALIER, Bizet’s CARMEN, Verdi’s SIMON BOCCANEGRA, Thomas’ HAMLET and Rossini’s ARMIDA. All operas will be screening concurrently with the New York seasons in select Australian cinemas from October. www.themetinaustralia.info

Gianni Truvianni Meets Charles Coleman

I of course am aware that many may not know who Charles Coleman is and it is for those that do not that I have chosen to write this article as he was the man, who in part is responsible for my love of opera and classical music that even lead to the creation of my first book “New York’s Opera Society”. Naturally when referring to Charles Coleman, I do so regarding the New York composer who way back in 1985 was a schoolmate of mine at “The Tutoring School Of New York” and not others with the same name; such as the one who was executed in the state of Oklahoma for murder back in 1990 or the noted English painter.

For the Charles Coleman I make reference to is the one who has given us many compositions among which are included “Deep Woods” and “Redemption” along with orchestrations of songs such as Jimi Hendrix’s “Manic Depressant”, Frank Zappa’s “Uncle Remus”, The Beatles’ “Come Together” and several others. Charles

Tourism in metropolitan Detroit

Market overview

Tourists can ride in a Model T in Greenfield Village at The Henry Ford, a National Historic Landmark.

The metropolitan region’s tourism industry depends on drawing large crowds to positively impact the local economy. As the world’s traditional automotive center, the city hosts the annual North American International Auto Show in January, a multi-day event. Other major multi-day events which reflect the region’s culture such as the Motown Winter Blast and the Windsor-Detroit International Freedom Festival can draw super sized-crowds of hundreds of thousands to over three million people. In 2006, the four-day Motown Winter Blast drew a cold weather crowd of about 1.2 million people to Campus Martius Park area downtown. Metro Detroit is one of thirteen U.S. cities with teams from four major sports.

Besides casino gaming, the region’s leading attraction is The Henry Ford, America’s largest indoor-outdoor museum complex, a museum

A Short History of Opera

Opera is an entertainment style involving combined with orchestral music and singers who perform with characteristic classical method top project their voice. Besides being trained in singing, the Opera performers are also trained in stage craft.

Opera was invented by a group of actors the mid 1500s in the Italian city of Florence, they were actually performing classical Greek theater. In addition, these actors were noble men educated in Latin and Greek.

The music style played in original Greek plays was quite simple with only a handful of instrumentalists playing flute, drums and lyre.

Fuller instruments often had drowned out the voice of the performers leading actors to develop techniques for amplifying the voice. This helped the singers to sing their parts. Singing allowed performers to project their voices further during the renaissance time as it was changing from religious austerity to more creative endeavors.

This

Opera With Popcorn

A major cultural war is raging as I write these words, a war over the future of one of the great art forms. That art form is opera, which the advertising-industrial complex seems to have adjudged unworthy of survival.

It is classist, they assert. It attracts fat singers, too—although for the life of me I don’t see why a fat opera singer is any more unattractive than a fat middle schooler, of whom we see droves every day. And the kids can’t even sing.

Fortunately, the opera companies and their supporters (including me) have decided not to go gentle into the bad night marketing experts have foreseen for this wonderful part of our cultural heritage. Led by the famed Metropolitan Opera and the distinguished San Francisco Opera, they have taken the war to selected cineplexes, both in America and abroad. Their secret weapon: HDTV productions of great operas, shown on the screen in your favorite movie complex.

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“new York’s Opera Society” Available on Print and as an E-book

“New York’s Opera Society” is based upon a group of friends who like the title suggests live in New York City and are not only opera fanatics but have dreams and ambitions that revolve around opera. The main character’s name is Bill Albert a German American who thanks to his mother a currently semi-retired opera singer turned singing instructor decided to study singing at the New York School of Music. Bill’s mother Getty, is also a woman who has ambitions of her own as she is striving to be on the board of directors at the Metropolitan Opera House with the intensions of modernizing it.

Bill also has a group of friends one of them being his ex-girlfriend Amanda Johnson, a young lady who desires nothing but to become a great opera diva like her idol “Maria Callas”. Amanda’s fiancée is Arturo Gomez, a Colombian who studies conducting and has his sights are set on someday replacing James Levine as the artistic director at the New

Know Everything About Metropolitan Opera Before Buying The Tickets

The metropolitan opera in New York City is one of the most stunning places that have added to this city’s grandeur! Being one of the twelve resident arts organizations of the Lincoln Centre, it is a magnificent opera house which is absolutely addictive to someone who has great love for music and culture.

The metropolitan opera house is a huge theatre hall with seating arrangement for as many as 3,900 people. The present one is the second metropolitan opera house.

The first one was established in 1883 which was destroyed in 1996, the same year that the new opera house at the Lincoln Centre was established. It is the home stage of the Metropolitan Opera Association and stages spectacular performances regularly. This organization is the largest classical music organization in America. It was founded in April of 1880 and has since then been a chief broadcaster of all types of opera. It presents about 220 opera performances every year!
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