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Juan Diego Flórez
is scheduled to sing at the Royal
Albert Hall, May 8, 2012.
This is the start of his Europa
tour that
takes in Liège,
Aarhus, Rome, Berlin and Vienna.
Vaccai's
La sposa di Messina from the 2009 Wildbad
festival is now available on Naxos
8.660295-96. A review can be found here.
A
telecast of one of the performances from the recent
Théâtre des
Champs-Elyseés, Paris, production of Donizetti's
Don
Pasquale can be seen on ARTE
Live Web. Classic
Live offers Rossini's Il viaggio a
Reims and La pietra del paragone and Verdi's
Oberto
Truesound
Transfers, based in Berlin, offer a range
of recordings of historic singers both for sale and
some free sample arias.
Chelsea
Opera Group are doing a concert performance of Donizetti's
Maria Padilla on May 27. See here
for details and a short description of the opera by
the Society chairman.
David
Pountney, the new CEO and artistic director of Welsh
National Opera, confirmed in Opera magazine (March 2012, p. 269) that they will stage
Donizetti's "Tudor trilogy" in 2013-2014.
Opera
Seria (Manchester, UK) are also planning the
trilogy starting with Anna Bolena, June
16 & 17, 2012.
Newsletter
115 is now available. Laura D'Alessandro's
reflections
on Gregory Kunde's appearance in Donizetti's Poliuto in Bergamo in
2010 from Newsletter
114, can be found here.
Some
time ago, someone on Youtube organised a list
of about 20 filmed or televised performances of
the duet "Chiedi all'aura lusinghiera"
from Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore for people
to vote on. See here
for the clips. There was a similar exercise for a couple of arias from Bellini's
Il puritani. See here
for clips.
http://www.operacast.com/
have details of opera broadcasts on the web.as well as information
on the
New York based Vocal Records Collecting Society.
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