Welcome Students and Teachers to Opera Online! To celebrate the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday we are dedicating this week's webisode to the feasts of opera!
Video Clips of the Week!
Our first video clip comes from the most famous dinner scene in all of opera, the Brindisi from Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata. The Brindisi, or drinking song, takes place at a lavish dinner party in early 18th century Paris. Tenor Placido Domingo plays Alfredo, who is in love with the hostess of the party and proposes a toast to love. Violetta (Teresa Stratas), the woman Alfredo is in love with, tries to thwart his advances by calling love folly.
Our last clip comes from the Metropolitan Opera production of Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel. After becoming hopelessly lost in the woods, hungry and tired Hansel and Gretel fall asleep. In this production, the children dream of a feast catered by fish and a dozen chefs.
Opera on the Air!
On Saturday, November 19th at 1 PM radio station WRTI will be broadcasting the Academy of Vocal Arts production of Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann (sung in french). In a Nuremburg tavern, the poet Hoffmann recounts his fantastical tales of lost love - Olympia, a lifeless doll he is tricked into seeing as a real woman; the frail Antonia, whose desire to sing causes her death, and Giulietta, a Venetian courtesan who steals his reflection. In each story, a sadistic villain thwarts his romance. Performed in Philadelphia the production is conducted by Christofer Macatsoris and stars tenor William Davenport as Hoffman, soprano Maria Aleida as Olympia, soprano Alexandra Maximova as Giulietta, bass-baritone Scott Connor as Lindorf, Coppelius, Dr. Miracle, Dapertutto and soprano Chloe Moore as Antonia.
Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
Video Clips of the Week!
Our first video clip comes from the most famous dinner scene in all of opera, the Brindisi from Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata. The Brindisi, or drinking song, takes place at a lavish dinner party in early 18th century Paris. Tenor Placido Domingo plays Alfredo, who is in love with the hostess of the party and proposes a toast to love. Violetta (Teresa Stratas), the woman Alfredo is in love with, tries to thwart his advances by calling love folly.
Our last clip comes from the Metropolitan Opera production of Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel. After becoming hopelessly lost in the woods, hungry and tired Hansel and Gretel fall asleep. In this production, the children dream of a feast catered by fish and a dozen chefs.
Opera on the Air!
On Saturday, November 19th at 1 PM radio station WRTI will be broadcasting the Academy of Vocal Arts production of Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann (sung in french). In a Nuremburg tavern, the poet Hoffmann recounts his fantastical tales of lost love - Olympia, a lifeless doll he is tricked into seeing as a real woman; the frail Antonia, whose desire to sing causes her death, and Giulietta, a Venetian courtesan who steals his reflection. In each story, a sadistic villain thwarts his romance. Performed in Philadelphia the production is conducted by Christofer Macatsoris and stars tenor William Davenport as Hoffman, soprano Maria Aleida as Olympia, soprano Alexandra Maximova as Giulietta, bass-baritone Scott Connor as Lindorf, Coppelius, Dr. Miracle, Dapertutto and soprano Chloe Moore as Antonia.
Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
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