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Das Experiment: La Bohème at the GNO 29 Apr 2010 | 11:05 am
Mata Katsuli as Mimi Convincing 12 colleagues to follow me on a Night at the Opera was easier than I thought. A message with 18 recipients led to 12 positive RSVP. A couple of them would even join us...
José Cura in Athens: Le lacrime che noi versiam son false? 26 Apr 2010 | 01:46 am
Athens Megaron, 17 April 2010 José Cura's Recital was the blockbuster-surprise of 2010. Tickets had sold-out a week in advance and the demand was still very high till the very last minute. This wasn...
Breaking: Garanca cancels ALL the Vienna Carmen 24 Apr 2010 | 05:27 am
And while at the Athens Megaron, I receive these lousy, lousy, LOUSY news! The cancellitis goes on... Ps. Sorry, I don't know how this will look, first time I'm posting from my BB
Grossmächtige Mutter! 23 Apr 2010 | 08:13 am
We hear that Diana Damrau is pregnant and that her baby will be coming to this world within Autumn 2010 ~(and you read it here first!)~ Many, MANY, m-a-n-y Wishes for the Ab-Fab Diana and her baby!
Lost Paradises: Jordi Savall in his first ever appearance in Athens 21 Apr 2010 | 08:38 am
Athens, 11 April 2010 Jordi Savall and Montserrat Figueras gave a stunning concert in Athens just a few days ago. Parsi asked D.T., a young student of old music and a die-hard Savall fan to share a f...
Let the cancellitis begin! 20 Apr 2010 | 09:00 am
Mariss Jansons has withdrawn from all the performances of the Vienna Carmen due to an illness that will keep him away from the podium for 2 or 3 months. Jansons, aged 67, suffered a heart attack back...
L'amour est un oiseau (très) cher 13 Apr 2010 | 08:22 am
Guess which is the hottest ticket of the Season. With prices going up to 1.300 euros per ticket on eBay, the run of Carmen at the Wiener Staatsoper in May '10 is definitely hawt hawt hawt. will broa...
Happy Birthday Montse! 12 Apr 2010 | 11:30 am
Born April the 12th 1933, Montserrat Concepción Bibiana Caballé i Folch, or else our Montse, will celebrate today her 77th Birthday! Happy Birthday Montsita!
Pink Floyd + The Teatro alla Scala Ballet in Athens 10 Apr 2010 | 01:21 pm
It all started at the end of the 60's when Roland Petit was urged by his daughter to listen to a Pink Floyd LP. Petit loved the music and flew to London in order to dine with the band and propose them...
Opera in Greece: who cares, really. 7 Apr 2010 | 06:49 am
In an article that carries the title “Given the crisis we will have to see if we maintain the Opera or not” Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia, presents a portrait of Greek Minister of Culture and Touris...