MOZART’S BASTIEN AND BASTIENNE
in a double-bill with
PURCELL’S DIDO AND AENEAS
Frost Opera Theater concludes its critically acclaimed 2007-08 season when Mozart’s Bastien and Bastienne and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas share the stage at the University of Miami’s Gusman Hall in a fully staged double-bill, accompanied by members of the Frost Symphony Orchestra.
Mozart’s early childhood opera arrives [...]
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UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI FROST OPERA THEATER DOUBLE BILL
March 26, 2008 – 3:27 pm
Verdi and Shakespeare
February 7, 2008 – 4:29 pm
Rafael de Acha © 2008
In Shakespeare’s Othello, Iago, the arch-enemy of his professed friend Othello, hyphenated low-life, evil-incarnate, bottom-feeder, low-grade officer and greatest anti-hero of all time - obliquely hints at what makes him tick. This happens at the onset of the play, in the Venetian scene with which Verdi dispensed in his opera.
Shakespeare provides [...]
My All-time Favorite Desert Island Opera Videos
February 6, 2008 – 9:41 am
Rafael de Acha © 2008
Opera and opera recordings and opera singers are like anything else that appeals primarily to the senses and only secondarily to the brain: it all is rather personal, quirky, and irrational. One man’s potion = another man’s poison.
So, when it comes to making a selection of video recordings that will accompany [...]
