Tag Archives: opera

Carry on Julius

Posted on 24 February 2023 by mj263

Tomorrow evening (Saturday 25th February), I’m off to London for a performance by English Touring Opera of Giulio Cesare, impeccably timed to coincide with London’s Handel Festival. I was slightly bemused to discover that it was to be staged at … Continue reading →

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Hair-raising times : what to wear to the opera

Posted on 26 March 2021 by Kate

What links Marie Antoinette, vaccinations, Gluck, a famous naval battle, and Parisian opera houses? A man named Léonard Autié. 

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Don’t read the reviews

Posted on 5 March 2021 by mj263

March 6th is the anniversary of the premiere of Verdi’s La Traviata. The most popular of all his operas, Traviata had an unfortunate beginning. Based on the popular novel, La dame aux camelias, by Alexandre Dumas, fils, Verdi had attended … Continue reading →

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The face that launched…

Posted on 21 February 2020 by mj263

The British Museum is coming to the end of its current exhibition, Troy : Myth and Reality in a few weeks time. I visited it recently, and was delighted to find a poster in the exhibition, that had links with … Continue reading →

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Cads, bounders and unbecoming women in opera and song: episode one

Posted on 6 October 2017 by sw508

Our latest exhibition at the UL Music Department, launched this week, explores the darker side of opera and song. We begin our mini-series of exhibition-related posts with a look at some of opera’s less-than-delightful characters. Villains abound – think of … Continue reading →

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Dramatic Dining

Posted on 2 October 2015 by Kate

Continuing in the theme of our previous blog post supporting the ‘Musical Feast’ exhibition in the Anderson Room, I thought for this post I would serve up a few examples of food, drink, and feasting in opera. Feasts and banquets … Continue reading →

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How many Rings in the Pendlebury?

Posted on 1 March 2013 by hrs38

Wagner is currently being studied by the second year undergraduates, looking at his magnum opus “Der Ring des Nibelungen”, which marks the beginning and the end of the world. In the Pendlebury library, we have two 2 DVD sets and … Continue reading →

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The Phillip John Greenwood collection

Posted on 15 February 2013 by Clemens Gresser

We frequently receive donations, and maybe unsurprisingly sometimes we receive offers of CDs. Miraculously, whereas a previous donation had a strong collection focus on jazz (see my post The Julian Andrews Collection) the newly-acquired Phillip John Greenwood Collection comprises almost … Continue reading →

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Opera, ballet or even a comedy?

Posted on 9 November 2012 by hrs38

The Pendlebury Library has over 500 DVDs in its collection, supporting the teaching at the Faculty of Music.  All the DVDs are catalogued and may be searched for on the library catalogue.  Borrowable on a one-day loan, just fill in … Continue reading →

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Riot at the opera

Posted on 6 October 2010 by mj263

A new exhibition has just gone up in the Anderson Room display cases celebrating Thomas Arne’s Tricentenary. One of the really fun things about curating an exhibition is learning all kinds of things that you never knew before. For me … Continue reading →

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