Reporting from New York — — At first glance, it appears that basses get the short end of the stick in opera. Even if they’ve managed to avoid mugging as a comic foil for the lovesick tenor, they are ...
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Rene Pape dropped his orb. He was onstage at the Metropolitan Opera last week, richly costumed and rehearsing Mussorgsky’s opera Rene Pape dropped his orb. He was onstage at the Metropolitan Opera ...
After performances in Franz Schmidt's oratorio The Book With Seven Seals under Fabio Luisi in Vienna (May 13-14), René Pape will sing in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony under Daniel Barenboim at Milan's La ...
Bass René Pape, the world’s reigning Boris, reprises his portrayal of the tortured tsar caught between ambition and paranoia. Conductor Sebastian Weigle leads Mussorgsky’s Russian masterwork in its ...
This Saturday night, German bass René Pape closes out the Metropolitan Opera’s season singing Banquo in Verdi’s “Macbeth,” an interpretation he introduced to New York audiences last week. The ...
Like most of their colleagues, Jean Braham and Rob Maher can say a few words in Russian, including ones for bread and tears. It’s a small but essential vocabulary for them as chorus members at the ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The main Music Center excitement Saturday night seemed to be at Walt ...
"René Pape’s bass showed considerable velvet sheen and elegant dynamic play; purely as singing and star presence, he impressed." Born in Dresden, Black Diamond Bass Rene Pape has been a member of the ...
The German opera singer René Pape, right, has withdrawn from the highly anticipated production of Wagner’s “Die Walküre,” the next installment of the “Ring” cycle, from La Scala in Milan and the ...