Will Placido Domingo sing the praises of FIFA?
The tenor’s new advisory role is designed to restore credibility to the soccer association. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
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Mimì gets a makeover: three operas deconstructed with surprising results. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Deborah Voigt will reflect on personal and career triumphs since her controversial clash with Covent Garden. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Two of opera’s biggest stars have left the Met in the lurch for Tokyo performances. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
What does Melbourne's flagship company have in store when it welcomes Richard Mills as artistic director in 2013?
Fiona Campbell breathes new life into an unfairly neglected Baroque masterpiece.
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A soap opera and Hollywood starlet will explore the great soprano’s love life. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
How to stream classical music live and on demand from the world's greatest orchestras and opera companies.
Australia Post has issued a stamp marking 150 years since the opera singer’s birth. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Gotta love those musical mums. Celebrate Mother's Day in style with Sutherland, Domingo, Gigli and more.
Mojca Erdmann is a young soprano from Hamburg, best known for her role in Simon Rattle’s Berlin recording of Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges and as the soloist in Jonathan Nott’s performance of Mahler Four. In this, her first solo album, she seems perfectly matched to the Classical-period repertoire. Her smallish voice is flexible and pure-toned and she makes good use of vibrato for dramatic purposes, singing with great control, considerable beauty and an obvious awareness of character and dramatic context. The program consists mostly of Mozart’s lighter roles. She is a pert Zerlina, but less characterful as Susanna. Even so, she manages the legato winningly in Susanna’s aria Deh vieni, non tardar. She throws herself with gusto into Tiger! Wetze nur die Klauen from Zaide, capping the aria with a ringing top D, yet draws out the line of Pamina’s aria from The Magic Flute at a slow tempo to produce a poised and heartfelt interpretation. Erdmann also sings two excerpts from Günter von Schwarzburg by Ignaz Holzbauer, an opera Mozart himself enjoyed, as well as arias by JC Bach, Paisiello and Salieri. Marcon and his “historically informed” band La Cetra play beautifully, another plus for this highly enjoyable…
The husband and collaborator of Lorraine Hunt Lieberson has died of cancer.