tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25134907201894357102012-01-28T10:25:18.691-08:00Aria Serious is San Diego Opera's official blog. We'll focus on the serious and not-so-serious world of opera with behind-the-scenes looks at our productions, artists and news.San Diego Operahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10799108777587021394noreply@blogger.comBlogger9701100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513490720189435710.post-59878383428826667002012-01-28T10:25:00.001-08:002012-01-28T10:25:18.718-08:00

Get behind the scenes with Salome in UCSD-TV's OperaSpotlight program.

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Every opera as of late we've been able to welcome the very talented Eric Shanower to our rehearsals. Eric is the award winning artist and writer of The Age of Bronze, a retelling of the Trojan War. He's also known for his series of Oz novels which he has written and illustrated. Really, he's seriously talented and you should visit him at his official webpage. Eric joined us this past Wednesday

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Up next, a video podcast with tenor Allan Glassman who sings Herod in Salome. And he's incredible in it. Enjoy!

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This week, Dr. Nic sits down with the wonderfully talented Greer Grimsley who sings John the Baptist in Salome.

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We first worked with Maestro Bedford when he returned to conduct Peter Grimes - still one of our favorite productions here at San Diego Opera. A man known for this close relationship with the composer Benjamin Britten he has become a Britten specialist over the years so he was quite surprised when our General and Artistic Director, Ian Campbell, asked him to conduct our upcoming Salome. Maestro

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Are you a social media maven? If so, we want to talk with you. San Diego Opera is looking for 10 individuals who are local and big on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and/or blog. If that's you, we want to invite you to the final dress rehearsals of Salome on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 6:30 PM. We'll give you a sneak peek seat in exchange for your authentic opinions and thoughts on Salome. We’re

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Our video podcast series is back and this week we sit down with the lovely Lise Lindstrom. Today we welcome back one of our favorite sopranos, Lise Lindstrom, who had such a great success last season as Turandot. In this interview with Nicolas Reveles, the Geisel Director of Education and Outreach, she talks about her career, her recent debut at La Scala as the "ice princess" in Puccini's opera,

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Salome rehearsals are underway. And it's going to be a bloody one. Speaking with our director, Sean Curran, he explains that by the end of the opera quarts of blood will have been spilled on stage.  And some of it is edible! Since we here at Aria Serious are big fans of Halloween parties (especially in the middle of January) our lovely Production Crew shared their recipes for stage blood with

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Happy New Year! It seems with Moby-Dick on our opera radar (sonar?) we keep on finding references to this work everywhere we go. The holidays saw the Aria Serious crew in San Francisco and one beautiful afternoon we took a tour of the De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park. And we're glad we did. Since we were seriously debating another trip the California Academy of Sciences. In one of the rooms

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Happy holidays! A bit of business: the San Diego Opera offices will be closing today at 1 PM and will remained closed until Tuesday, December 27, 2011. The offices will also be closed on Monday, January 2, 2012. Our website is always open for your opera needs. The Aria Serious crew will be offline until Tuesday, January 3, 2012. We'd like to thank you for making Aria Serious what it is and

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We're excited about hosting the West Coast premiere of Moby-Dick when it opens in February. One, we like new opera and two, we like interesting productions. Moby covers both of these for us. It's a very technical production and those that have worked on it before (in Dallas and Australia) liken it to a very large Broadway production. Makes sense, both set designer Robert Brill and director

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A very cool preview video for OperaSpotlight Moby-Dick that our friends over at UCSD-TV created.

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Our video podcast series continues. Up this week, putting DON PASQUALE into historical context. You can watch it below. Enjoy!

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Happy Friday. What are you listening to this weekend? The Aria Serious crew will listen to Bellini's Norma. It's been some time since we've heard it and it has been even longer since we've spent time with the excellent Maria Callas recording, which we think might be the best one out there. If you know of one better, please let us know. Share your listening plans in the comment section

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Our podcast series of putting our four operas in historical context continues with THE BARBER OF SEVILLE. What does this opera have in common with the situational comedies on TV today? Dr. Nic answers all...

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Our friends over at KNSD 7/39 and Voice of San Diego's Behind The Scene Arts blog put together this excellent little preview of MOBY-DICK auditions earlier this week. You think those flips and tumbles are impressive - the floor they are on is concrete with just a thin layer of carpet. We get sore just standing on it. You can watch it below: View more videos at: http://nbcsandiego.com/?__

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Earlier this week, MOBY-DICK composer Jake Heggie sat down with Ian Campbell to give a generous conversation about his life, composing opera, and, of course, his newest work MOBY-DICK which we will be presenting in February. UCSD-TV filmed the program which will premiere tonight on tv. But you can also watch it right now online. And you should. It's a wonderful program full of delightful

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Our video podcast series of putting our 2012 operas into historical context continues with Moby-Dick. You can watch the podcast below.

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Happy Friday. What are you listening to this weekend? Work will dictate our listening plans this weekend as we spend time with The Barber of Seville and Don Pasquale. Seems best if we reacquaint ourselves with them before the season starts up. Then we might spend some time with Youth Lagoon's "The Year of Hibernation" which has been getting lots of airplay at the Aria Serious compound.

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Our podcasts are back - finally! We had some issue with space on our server but we've finally taken care of this problem.  For the next few weeks Dr. Nic will be putting our operas into historical context. Up first, SALOME. Which you can watch below. Please enjoy!

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Who likes records? We like records! And if you're reading this, we bet you like records too. Our friends at Amoeba Records in Hollywood have sent us an email letting us know they have purchased a large collection of classical music from a "well known collector." Sounds mysterious! They'll be putting it out on Saturday, December 3, 2011. Store opens at 10:30 AM According to Amoeba: "This

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Happy Friday! It sure has been quiet here at Aria Serious. We like to think of it as the calm before the storm. Rest assured, things will pick up in the next few weeks. In the meantime, we'd like to remind you we're on Facebook - just type "San Diego Opera" into your Facebook search field and "friend" us. We're posting there daily. We're also tweeting up a storm on Twitter. You can find

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Happy Friday What are you listening to this weekend? The Aria Serious crew will give Roberto Devereux a listen. Why? It's been years, maybe a decade since we've heard it. We have the Beverly Sills / Peter Glossop recording on tap. Then we'll catch a bit of Sezio's 4-Day Weekend concert series. The Sunday concert is looking to be great with Aria Serious favorite Real Estate and Big Troubles

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Podcast Monday is back although we can't promise if all our podcasts will appear on Mondays. The move to video has proved trickier than we anticipated and these past few weeks we've been getting them up later in the week. But Monday is here and so is this week's podcast - so lets hope all the kinks have been worked on and we can be a bit more consistent on when we share these. This week, Dr.

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Over the weekend: - There is a new book on opera and fashion designers. Here's what we had to say about our collaboration with Zandra Rhodes for both The Magic Flute and The Pearl Fishers. And yes, you read it correctly; her Aida will be part of our 2013 season. - Kate Middleton and Prince Charles have been attending the opera together. We should invite him to Moby-Dick. He is the Prince of

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Friday - the end of the work week and time to ask as we always ask, what are you listening to this weekend? The Aria Serious has a lot going on this weekend so we'll be forced to squeeze in a short one, so we'll go with Salome. It's coming up in our season, it's only about 90-minutes long and it doesn't hurt to listen to it again before the cast starts arriving. Share your plans below and

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A look at overtures, preludes and beginings in opera. Enjoy!

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Over the weekend: - We announced a cast change for Moby-Dick. Ben Heppner, who originated the role in Dallas, will now join us to sing the role of Ahab. We released Jay Hunter Morris to sing a run of Seigfreids at the Met Opera. Also, see below from a message from Jay about not singing with us. - Having a bad day at work? Us too, until we read about this singer that sang her role in Tosca 

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Add caption Over the weekend: The iPod turns 10 this month. How has it affected the way you listen to music? Kentucky Opera might not have an orchestra for their upcoming performances of The Marriage of Figaro due to a union dispute. NPR drops distribution of "World of Opera" program after the host (not an NPR employee) was found to be an organizer of the Occupy DC protests. NPR's ethics

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Happy Friday. What are you listening to this weekend? The Aria Serious crew will be listening to The Daughter of the Regiment. It's coming up in a future season and we're not terribly familiar with it so now seems like a fine time to listen to it. Which future season, you ask? Now that would be telling. We'll also spend some time with Real Estate's new LP, Days, which is a serious contender

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Occupy Opera. Opera is expensive, but there are ways to make it less expensive. This week Dr. Nic gets cheap and shares how you can attend opera on a 99% budget. And in HD. Finally.

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Those of you who attended San Diego Opera's performances of Turandot last season will surely remember Lise Lindstrom, the lovely soprano who made her Company debut in the title role - her signature role. We saw and heard a superlative artist with incredible stage presence and stunning vocals. And behind-the-scenes we got to make a new friend who quickly placed herself on the Aria Serious "

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Over the weekend: - Some sad news as the Lyric Opera of San Diego has filed for bankruptcy protection. Dear readers, please support your local opera company, whoever they might be. - Wikileaks: the opera. - Beck is preparing a remix Philip Glass remix LP.  - Last week, we said goodbye to a very dear friend and co-worker. Her absence is profound. - This is a video about what happens when a

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Friday is upon us. What are you listening to this weekend? The Aria Serious crew has a household full of guests so, sadly, there will be no opera on the stereo this weekend. It's hard to find the time to listen to a full opera when others are around. But next week we'll be listening to Donizetti's The Daughter of the Regiment. It's coming up in a future season and it's not an opera we're

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We apologize for the delay again - we're still smoothing out the edges of these new video podcasts, but our newest one is finally up. This week we take a look at Salome and the cultural and artistic environment of the Expressionist period. Enjoy!

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Happy Friday. What are you listening to this weekend? For some reason the cooler weather made us think of Lucia di Lammermoor, we've heard it a dozen times already though. So, we're going to go French this weekend and listen to Lucie de Lammermoor - we've never heard this version despite owning it for years. Share your plans in the comment section and please, make it a good one.

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Our apologies - technical difficulties prevented us from getting this up any earlier - but we think the wait was worth it. In this week's video podcast Nic talks about using your ears at the Opera, with a close listen to the role of Rosina in The Barber of Seville. Enjoy.

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Over the weekend: - Placido Domingo takes issue with The Washington Post Critic. The Washington Post Critic responds. - Sometimes, singing is all in the head. - Watch this! Turning tunnels into musical instruments. - Karen O, the lead singer of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, prepares her first opera.

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Happy Friday. What are you listening to this weekend? We're heading up the coast early tomorrow morning to catch one of the last "shows" of Susurrus presented by La Jolla Playhouse at the San Diego Botanic Gardens (formerly Quail Botanic Gardens). This is a site specific theatre piece - it's billed as part radio play, avant-garde sonic art and a walk through the park - all things we like.  

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We like opera. We like food, too. In fact, these two things are in our top five favorite things ever. So we're very pleased to announce our Taste of Opera events for 2012. Taste of Opera sprung up during a conversation one hungry meeting when we were trying to make opera more accessible and casual. Our stomach grumbled. We suggested ending the meeting early for lunch. And then someone else

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Now for something completely different - our first video podcast . You can watch it down below. Let us know what you think; these are works in progress - your comments will help us decide which direction to go.

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Friday is here! What are you listening to this weekend? Please share it in the comment section below. The Aria Serious crew will have many household visitors this weekend so a full opera is off the menu for this weekend. We'll probably give Nirvana's Nevermind a listen on Saturday however. It came out 20 years ago. This makes us feel very old as we were working in a record store when that

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Next season San Diego Opera will welcome soprano Danielle de Niese to the Company to sing her first staged Norina in Don Pasquale. The Aria Serious crew is extra excited about this because we've been big fans of Danielle ever since we caught a glimpse of her in this Youtube video of "Da Tempeste" from Handel's Julius Caesar in Egypt. In it, you not only get to hear an artist of incredible

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San Diego Opera is very pleased to announce our Community Conversations for 2012. We started Community Conversations a few years back as a way to get people interested in our production of Nabuccco and they have now grown into an annual series. Community Conversations is a free, citywide lecture series that explores the various aspects of San Diego Opera’s upcoming season by paring Dr. Nic

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Happy Podcast Monday - this week, Dr. Nic explores the operatic tradition of the all-male chorus in Moby-Dick. You can download the podcast here. Enjoy!

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Happy Friday. What are you listening to this weekend? The Aria Serious crew will give Medea a listen. It's been ages since we've put in on, we don't really remember it at all. On Saturday we'll head over to Politifest at Liberty Station presented by Voice of San Diego. It's free and sounds like a fun and thought provoking event. Sunday there is a lovely polo tournament which benefits us and

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Earlier this year we had the incredible pleasure of welcoming American soprano Talise Trevigne to our Company as Micaela in the season closer, Carmen. When we said goodbye we knew it wouldn't be for long as she is scheduled to come back and reprise the role of Pip she created for the world premiere of Moby-Dick in Dallas. Talise took a few moments from rehearsing Heggie's Pieces of 9/11 in

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A bit of business - our offices will be closed today - Friday, September 9, 2011. And since it is Friday it's time to ask - what are you listening to this weekend? The Aria Serious crew will spend some time with Otello. It's one of our favorite operas and it's been a good few months since we've put it on. Then we'll head up to Hollywood Bowl for The National concert later this weekend. Share

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It's been a few years since we've had the delightful American tenor Charles Castronovo sing with us; he made his Company debut as Nadir in The Pearl Fishers in 2008. He recently created the role of Mario opposite Placido Domingo for the world premiere of Il Postino and has been singing  a number of leading roles in Europe as of late. We're very pleased to welcome Charles back as Ernesto in our

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Dr. Nic looks at the career of the Italian tenor who passed away over the weekeend in this special podcast.

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This week, Dr. Nic continues his exploration of Opera Buffa with a look at our final opera of the 2012 season, The Barber of Seville. You can download the podcast here.

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- Folks, we begin this morning with some very sad news. Italian tenor Salvatore Licitra died yesterday from injuries he sustained 10 days ago in a scooter accident. Salvatore was originally scheduled to sing Don Jose in our production of Carmen last season but had to withdraw to heal a back injury he had sustained from an earlier accident. He was scheduled to make his Company debut in 2013 as

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A bit of business - the San Diego Opera offices will be closed Friday through Monday, reopening on Tuesday, September 6, 2011. Which means today is our "Friday" and time to ask, what are you listening to this weekend? The Aria Serious Crew will give Moby-Dick another go. We're really digging this opera but now that we're over the initial "hey, this is really good" phase we want to study it

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Summer is coming to an end, so it's time to look at some of the artists who will make up our 2012 season. This means the return of our 10 Questions With... Up first is the lovely Spanish mezzo soprano Silvia Tro Santafé who will make her Company debut as Rosina in our season closer The Barber of Seville. Silvia specializes in the bel canto repertoire in particular Rossini. Other than bel canto,

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In this week's podcast, Dr. Nic takes a look at Opera Buffa and Don Pasquale. If you think Opera Buffa means singing shirtless, then this podcast is for you. You can download it here. Enjoy!

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- Sad news to start with. The Aria Serious crew came back from vacation this morning to learn that tenor Salvatore Licitra was seriously injured in an accident over the weekend. His condition is listed as "stable, but extremely grave." Licitra was forced to withdraw from our production of Carmen earlier this year due to a back injury. He's scheduled to sing with us as part of our 2013. All of us

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The trend of being closed on Fridays in August continues, making this our "Friday." So it is time to ask: what are you listening to this weekend? For the Aria Serious crew we'll be listening to nothing - we're heading into the Sierra backcountry for a week of camping and even our ipod and headphones are an added weight we don't want to carry. Plus we just want to get away from it all. This

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San Diego Opera is very pleased to announce our Community Conversation lecture series for the 2012 season. Six relaxed lectures will focus on Moby-Dick and Salome. Being the science geeks (and scuba divers) that we are here at Aria Serious you can bet we're excited about some of these. All of these lectures are free and open to the public but do require an RSVP because these venues have capacity

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We're a day late and we apologize - flu took us down. This week's podcast looks at the role of Ahab in Moby-Dick. You can download it here. The Aria Serious crew is also working on a "10 Questions With..." interview with our Ahab, Jay Hunter Morris, who is currently rehearsing the role in Adelaide for the Australian premiere later this month. We'll post it once we get his answers back.

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In this week's podcast, Dr. Nic takes a look at musical imagery and atmosphere in Stauss's Salome. You can download the podcast here. We hope you enjoy it!

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Over the weekend: - Classical music and digital music. The future or the death of our favorite art form? - Taking classical music out of the concert hall. - Another week, some more NYCO news. Just days after announcing the music director position has been cut, NYCO's esteemed vocal coach has decided to move on. - Next week we're giving a tour of our Scenic Studio. You can join us! - Did

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First, a bit of business - the San Diego Opera offices are closed on Fridays in the lovely month of August. We'll be back on Monday and our website is never closed for all your opera needs.Since technically this makes today our Friday, it's time to ask what we always do: what are you listening to this weekend?We're going to listen to Don Giovanni - we love this opera and we know it quite well, it

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Not feeling it this Monday? We understand. But then we sat down with a cup of coffee and Nic's podcast, and suddenly Monday was looking much, much, better. This week, Dr. Nic explores great recordings of Don Pasquale, our third opera of our 2012 season.

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Here at the Aria Serious tower the lab is dominated by a large bookshelf filled with reference material (we try to look it up as opposed to make it up when we can). Dominated by 4 volumes of The Grove Dictionary of Opera we're pleased to announce a new book has been added to the shelf: Weep, Shudder, Die: A Guide to Loving Opera by Robert Levine. While we don't need a guide to loving opera we

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Then try this opera puzzler courtesy of NPR. Each clip is an aria about some type of monetary misfortune. Listen to the clip than drag it to the corresponding image. Have fun! And good luck.

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Ever wonder how opera sets are made? Well, now is your chance.Our Meetup.com group (yes, San Diego Opera has a Meetup group) has planned our first meet-up of the season - a free tour of our Scenic Studio.You’ll get to see the phenomenal scenic artists, watch the skilled carpenters at work and see first-hand how these talented people bring the their designs to larger-than-life.SDO’s Scenic Studio

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Monday getting you down? You're not alone. But this week's podcast might help - Dr. Nic explores great recordings of The Barber of Seville which is our 2012 season closer.Take a listen here.And enjoy!

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It was a long weekend as the Aria Serious crew spent the last four and a half days at ComicCon.- First, in ComicCon related news, artist Eric Shanower won an Eisner Award for Best Adaption from Another Work for The Marvelous Land of Oz. Eric has sketched our operas in the past. He'll be joining us again in the near future.- Lyric Opera of San Diego has turned down an offer to buy their North Park

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What are you listening to this weekend?The Aria Serious crew will be taking a week off from our weekend listening routine. It's Comic Con so we'll be knee deep in all sorts of geeky culture for the weekend. What are your listening plans this weekend? Share them below and please, make it a good one.

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Happy Podcast Monday!On this week's podcast Dr. Nic Reveles explores the work of American Composer Jake Heggie. Mr. Heggie's newest opera, Moby-Dick, will receive it's West Coast premiere as part of our 2012 season. In this podcast you'll hear some of the composers earlier work including Art Songs and excerpts from his earlier opera, Dead Man Walking.You can find the podcast here. Enjoy!

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Over the weekend:- Tales of Hip Hopera redux - rapper Snoop Dogg reveals he intends to incorporate opera into his next album.- Cornell MacNeil, Verdi Baritone at the Met, Dies at 88.

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Happy Friday.What are you listening to this weekend?We came into work this morning to find a copy of Moby-Dick in our in-box so we'll spend some time getting to know this opera better over the weekend before we present it in February of 2012. And to the coworker who dropped it off, thank you. Share your listening plans down below and please, make it a good one!

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We apologize for the delay, the Aria Serious team took a long weekend. While we were out:- NYCO has revealed their new season and addressed criticisms.- Opera Columbus moves from producing opera to presenting opera as a way to cut costs in these economic challenging times. - The Earl of Harewood, and editor of Kobbe's Complete Book of Opera, has passed away. - San Francisco Opera's Ring Cycle was

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Happy Friday!What are you listening to this weekend?The Aria Serious crew will be heading for points north to catch the Gertrude Stein exhibits in San Francisco at the Contemporary Jewish Museum and the SFMOMA over the weekend. To inspire ourselves over the long drive we'll be listening to Four Saints in Three Acts by Virgil Thomson (with libretto by Gertrude Stein) as well as his musical

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Over the weekend:- A writer says his new opera was canceled to due to homophobia. Opera North says "no way." - Damon Albarn unveils his new opera Dr. Dee which we imagine is the next best thing to a new Blur album.- Lyric Opera of Chicago's decision to present Broadway musicals leads some to question the artistic vision of the Company. We think it's a horrible idea but then we're not big

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Happy Friday! And the Friday before a long weekend at that!What are you listening to this weekend? The Aria Serious crew will listen to Dead Man Walking by Jake Heggie. Why? Well, we wanted to listen to an American opera this Independence Day. See, we've been listening to a lot of Moby-Dick (we have an archival DVD we've been studying) and it dawned on us we've never heard the complete opera of

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Sure, we took a few weeks off; Dr. Nic needed to bike around Europe, but our 2012 weekly podcast series is back and we're starting off with a look at great recordings of Salome, our first opera of the 2012 season.Our podcasts are short, free, and can be downloaded here. Perfect listening material for your drive home as you start the long weekend.

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Some of you must surely remember our performances of Peter Grimes a few seasons back. Personally, for us, these performances were some of the greatest we've ever experienced in the opera house - not only do we love the opera, but our cast, our chorus, our staging really elevated the production to something incredibly magical.And then there was the orchestra - led by Maestro Steuart Bedford - a

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We here at the Aria Serious tower are big fans of Don Pasquale. It was one of the first operas we ever saw, and as far as we can recall our first comic opera we ever saw; up until Pasquale opera was jilted lovers and dying of consumption or being buried alive in tombs - this one opened up a whole new world for us - we could laugh and smile through our operas now.When this production first came

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Happy Friday. What are you listening to this weekend?The Aria Serious crew will forgo listening to a complete opera this week. Instead, we're going to spend some time with Danielle de Niese's new LP The Beauty of the Baroque. We're big fans of baroque and quickly becoming big fans of Danielle. We better be, she sings her first Norina with us in Don Pasquale in March.After that we're going to

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Italian conductors, Marco Guidarini and Antonello Allemandi, will make their San Diego opera debuts in the 2012 International Season.Marco Guidarini conducts Don Pasquale which opens in March, and Antonello Allemandi leads The Barber of Seville in April.Marco Guidarini was born in Genoa, Italy. He has conducted with Milan’s La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, Deutscheoper Berlin, Teatro Colón in

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Over the weekend:- Kansas City resident, the mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato shares her thoughts about the state of Kansas cutting Arts funding to balance their budget.- Cel phones ringing during classical concerts: "artistic terrorism" or just [bleeping] rude?- A day in the life of a young President Bill Clinton, the opera.- Austin Lyric Opera cuts season, begins aggressive fundraising campaign to

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Happy Friday! What are you listening to this weekend?No plans?May we suggest our production of Carmen which will air tomorrow, Saturday June 18 at 8 PM PST on KPBS radio (89.5 FM / 89.7 FM La Jolla) and online here at http://www.kpbs.org/We'll be tuning in from Los Angeles as were going to give ourselves an opera weekend and see The Difficulty of Crossing A Field at Long Beach Opera, one of our

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San Diego Opera and the Aria Serious crew are proud to offer the continuation of our Opera Caravan service, a car free way to experience our performances. For a few seasons now we’ve been hiring a charter bus to transport patrons who no longer wish to drive to our performances. And who can blame them, with the price of gas today, the traffic congestion and the parking lot hustle; sometimes just

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The lovely Danielle di Niese is releasing a new album called Beauty of the Baroque and recorded a trailer for the album which you can see below. Danielle sings her first Norina with us in Don Pasquale. And she makes March seem so very, very, far away.

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Friday. The best day of the work week. What are you listening to this weekend?The Aria Serious crew will be listening to Faust. Our Faust to be precise. That's because KPBS radio will be airing a performance of our production of Faust this Saturday, June 11, 2011 at 8 PM PST. You can find KPBS on the dial at 89.5 FM (89.7 La Jolla) but for those of you in other places http://www.kpbs.org/ is

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We're very excited to be presenting the West Coast premiere of Moby-Dick as the second opera of our 2012 season.We here at the Aria Serious tower are big fans of contemportary opera as we like to think we work in a living and breathing art form and not a museum (not that we have anything against museums). So when people ask us "what are you most excited about next season?" The answer without a

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For those of you who were listening to our broadcast of Der Rosenkavalier on Saturday, only to have it end early we're very sorry. It appears a technical difficulty in the studio prevented us from completing the opera broadcast. But don't fear, KPBS radio has decided to re-air the opera in its entirety on Saturday, July 2, 2011 at 8 PM PST. You can find the station at 89.5 FM or online at http://

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Over the weekend:- The adventures of the Almaviva clan continues in “I Due Figaro” (“The Two Figaros”). - You call that an Aida? Now this, THIS, is an Aida. - The purist in me cries a little bit. The arts marketer applauds. If you're wondering, Lady Gaga was unavailable next season. Jackie Evancho to Perform With Pittsburgh Opera.- NYCO is rumored to tackle next season with a halved budget.

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Happy Friday.What are you listening to this weekend?The Aria Serious crew will be listening to our broadcast of DER ROSENKAVALIER on KPBS radio this Saturday, April 4, at 8 PM PST. That's on 89.5 FM (89.7 La Jolla) but for all of you outside of San Diego you can find it online at http://www.kpbs.org/We'll spend the rest of the weekend decompressing from the 2011 season and listening to a bit of

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Our 2012 season will open with Strauss's Salome. Scouring through the interwebs this morning we came across this lovely sampler of the opera from San Francisco Opera. This is the exact same production we will be using. Even the bass-baritone, Jochanaan, will be the same - Greer Grimsley. The Salome will be Lise Lindstrom, who we heard in Turandot this season.We'll post clips of the upcoming

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We're still cleaning house from the long weekend and the 2011 season but the big news over the weekend is that radiation fears caused a game of musical chairs with the Met's tour of Japan.More once we get through this pile of emails and papers...

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Folks, our offices will be closing at 3 PM today and will remain closed until Tuesday May 31, 2011 to allow us a chance to stretch our legs before diving into the 2012 season. As always, our website will remain open for your subscription needs. Thank you for making the 2011 season such a success.

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You can now relive our 2011 season from your favorite comfy chair and even sing along if you'd like because our four operas from the 2011 season will start airing on KPBS radio this Saturday, May 28, 2011 at 7 PM PST with Turandot. A new opera airs each Saturday after that.You can find KPBS radio at 89.5 FM San Diego, 89.7 La Jolla and http://www.kpbs.org/The full schedule can be found here.

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Over the weekend:- We closed our 2011 season with the final performance of Carmen on Sunday. It's a bittersweet day also know as bagels vs. donuts in the kitchen (donuts are winning). What was your highlight of the 2011 season?Around the world:- NYCO announced it is leaving Lincoln Center over the weekend. - The New York Times on the future of James Levine at the Metropolitan Opera. - Probably

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What are you listening to this weekend?We'll be taking in the final performances of Carmen, and in doing so, the final two performances of the season. There are still a very few seats left for tonight's performance, so if you were thinking about catching an opera this season, tonight is the night to do it.Have a great weekend and share your listening plans down below.

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We're sorry for the delay - Blogger has been giving us a hard time this week. Without further delay (we hope) OperaSpotlight Carmen.

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The wonderful San Diego City Beat sat down with Talise Trevigne yesterday to discuss Carmen, Moby-Dick, yoga and chocolate bacon(!?)You can download the delicious podcast here.

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On this week's podcast, Dr. Nic explores the 2012 season.This will actually be our last podcast Monday for a few weeks as Dr. Nic will be taking a much needed vacation.You can hear our podcast here. Enjoy!

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Over the weekend:- We announced our 2012 season. Salome, Moby-Dick, Don Pasquale, The Barber of Seville and a special concert with the lovely Renee Fleming. You can read about here and here. We'll have more detailed posts about the season in a few weeks.- We opened our Carmen on Saturday. Reviews have been coming and we expect a few more today. You can find them online here as they arrive (at the

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