Local philanthropist Penelope Steiner has signed a check to her favourite opera house, where she is deputy board chair.
The gift is described as ‘unprecedented, unrestricted’.
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Italy’s only aircraft carrier, the Giuseppe Garibaldi, is planning to stage an opera on deck. Singers will make their entrance by helicopter. Read here. The post Madama Butterfly on a battleship appeared first on Slippedisc.
I received a review copy of this CD in the mail and thought I’d just sample it real quick to see if it was something I would enjoy enough to write about. And I soon […]
David Krauss’s latest guest on Speaking Soundly is the outstanding American tenor Lawrence Brownlee. His ascent was not easy. He sang Tamino in The Magic Flute before he had ever seen an opera. He was […]
