The pleasure of parody: delightful Opera seria

Por Hilary Stroh, 17 julio 2016

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“I haven’t heard an audience laugh more at an opera ever. Period.”

Crítica hecha desde Wolf Trap, Viena el 15 julio 2016

Gassmann, L'opera seria

Wolf Trap Opera

Eric Melear, Dirección

Matthew Ozawa, Dirección de escena

Charlie Corcoran, Diseño de escena

Sally Dolembo, Diseño de vestuario

Richard Ollarsaba, Fallito

Jonas Hacker, Delirio

Clarissa Lyons, Stonatrilla

Mané Galoyan, Smorfiosa

Alasdair Kent, Ritornello

Amy Owens, Porporina

Christian Zaremba, Passagallo

Talin Nalbandian, Caverna

Thomas Glass, Bragherona

Jeanne Ireland, Befana

Rossini's The Touchstone triumphs at Wolf Trap

Hilary Stroh, 23rd June

Wolf Trap Opera delivers high camp Rossini true to the composer.

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Summer migration for Emerging Artists at Wolf Trap

Hilary Stroh, 7th August

Emerging talent to watch in Wolf Trap's summer production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly.

Canadian Opera Company opens season with a Fidelio for our time

Michelle Assay, 29th September

A massive rotating cube, CCTV, an immigrants’ detention centre: Fidelio returns to the Toronto stage with a visually arresting production full of contemporary resonances.

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A strongly cast Nabucco opens at Lyric Opera of Chicago

Dan Wang, 23rd January

The Lyric Opera put together the best-sounding première of the year so far, in which singers, chorus and the orchestra all began with astonishing confidence and only improved from there.

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Unos Roméo et Juliette en muy buenas manos en Tenerife

Ramón Pereira Blanco, 22nd March

Sofía Esparza y Airam Hernández defienden brillantemente la ópera de Gounod, en la producción de Ópera de Tenerife, con una cuidada dirección escénica de André Heller-Lopes.

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Una Manon Lescaut atrapada en el mundo de Àlex Ollé

Maria Sánchez, 17th March

Enmarcada entre suburbios y fronteras, Asmik Gregorian logra triunfar en su rol protagonista, sin poder salvar a su personaje, ahogada por la agresividad y provocación escénica.

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Hilary Stroh

Hilary is an independent scholar and academic historian, based in DC. She has a background in violin, piano and ballet. Educated at Dublin and Cambridge, she has recently published her first two books.

The pleasure of parody: delightful Opera seria at Wolf Trap