2014-2015 Season (Fondazione Teatro Regio)
(Source: Fondazione Teatro Regio) 2014-2015 Season TEATRO REGIO: THE OPERA WITH NO LIMITS There will be seventeen titles, thirteen operas, seven new productions, the Ballet Nacional de Cuba and a Gala...
View ArticleMaria Radner: Internationally acclaimed contralto who was due to make her...
The German contralto Maria Radner, together with her husband and baby, was one of the 150 passengers and crew killed in the Germanwings airbus crash over the French Alps, en route from Barcelona to...
View ArticleFrom ‘Manon’ to ‘Moby-Dick’ in 2014
A sampling of what can be heard at major opera houses in the next few months. Enlarge This Image Monika Rittershaus/Staatsoper Berlin Dmitri Tcherniakov's production of "The Czar's Bride" will come to...
View ArticleWhy art and opera make such passionate bedfellows
The lives of artists have often been turned into opera. But – as in the ENO's new production of Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini – sometimes the truth is wilder (and more murderous) than fiction ...
View ArticleAt ENO: exit Edward Gardner, enter Mark Wigglesworth
Well, well: did anyone see this coming? After leading English National Opera to arguably its most successful and consistent period of musical achievement in for the last 20 years or so, the company has...
View ArticleTerry Gilliam on directing Berlioz operas and the truth about the Monty...
It's already turning out to be some year for Terry Gilliam. His soon-to-be-released new film, The Zero Theorem, sees Christoph Waltz try to uncover the meaning of life; in June he takes his second stab...
View ArticleHe's been a very busy boy: Terry Gilliam on directing Berlioz operas,...
It's already turning out to be some year for Terry Gilliam. His soon-to-be-released new film, The Zero Theorem, sees Christoph Waltz try to uncover the meaning of life; in June he takes his second stab...
View ArticleBenvenuto Cellini, City Screen, York, June 17
Terry Gilliam opera pic (7066197) IT'S the morning - well, late afternoon - after the first night before and Terry Giliam is on a high as he declares, "There's nothing more exhilarating than success."...
View ArticleWatch: Full 2 Hour Presentation Of Terry Gilliam's 2011 Production Of...
| It was reported in May of 2011 that director Terry Gilliam was helming a stage production of Berlioz’s “The Damnation of Faust” for the English National Opera in London....
View ArticleTerry Gilliam's opera diary: 'We have a big head problem'
Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini is incoherent, bombastic and nigh on unperformable. The perfect project, then, for Terry Gilliam to direct. We asked him to keep a diary as he brought the work to the...
View ArticleEnglish National Opera announces a season to reduce debt
Company hopes mixture of sure-fire hits and more challenging productions will led to reduction in deficit ...
View ArticleTerry Gilliam: ‘I don’t do opera, I put on a show’
At its premiere in Paris in 1838, Hector Berlioz’s opera Benvenuto Cellini was branded “impossible to play” by the orchestra and caused a riot among the outraged audience. A tale of sexual adventure,...
View ArticleMonty Python member Terry Gilliam to direct Berlioz for English National Opera
LONDON — The English National Opera says its 2013-14 season will include the world premiere of Oedipus-inspired opera “Thebans” and the return of Monty Python member Terry Gilliam to direct a new...
View ArticleTerry Gilliam to return to the English National Opera
Monty Python member turned Hollywood film-maker Terry Gilliam is to return as a director for the English National Opera, it has been announced. The director of Time Bandits and Brazil will helm a...
View ArticleBenvenuto Cellini; La fanciulla del West – review
Coliseum; Opera Holland Park, London ...
View ArticleBenvenuto Cellini, London Coliseum, opera review: 'Curiously drained of energy'
‘Nobody succeeds with a Berlioz opera,’ Terry Gilliam confided to his diary when his production of Benvenuto Cellini was first mooted three years ago. ‘You might f*** it up, but so does everybody...
View Article>Terry Gilliam to direct Berlioz opera at ENO
LONDON (AP) — The English National Opera says its 2013-14 season will include the world premiere of Oedipus-inspired opera...
View ArticleTerry Gilliam Heads To The Opera
London — The English National Opera's 2013-14 season will include a world premiere of Oedipus-inspired opera "Thebans" and the return of Monty...
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