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Audacious, vivacious talent
Life, Published on 30/08/2025
» Back in 2021, a group of intrepid Bangkok music students decided to create their own opera company, undeterred by the fact that this is the most difficult art form to produce.
An evening of magic
Life, Published on 06/03/2025
» In the opulent surroundings of Bangkok's Banyan Tree, Somtow Sucharitkul, with the Siam Sinfonietta and a host of singers, earlier this month presented an evening of popular opera to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Opera Siam.
Male Soprano Comes Into His Own
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 12/06/2022
» Samuel Marino is a rarity in opera: a true male soprano.
Mozart's classic comic opera comes to Bangkok
Life, Published on 24/02/2020
» An adaptation of the classic Mozart comic opera, The Essential Marriage Of Figaro will be staged by the Bangkok Community Theatre at the British Club Bangkok, Silom 18, on March 6, 7, 13 and 14.
BCT stages Mozart's greatest hits
Life, Published on 20/02/2020
» If you find opera to be boring, you will feel differently after watching The Essential Marriage Of Figaro. This short English adaptation of Mozart's opera, The Marriage Of Figaro, will open the Bangkok Community Theatre (BCT)'s 2020 season, and promises to be a fun-filled evening of antics and deception.
7 years after stepping down, Benedict fuels '2 popes' headache
AFP, Published on 11/02/2020
» VATICAN CITY: Seven years after his surprise resignation, Benedict XVI -- weakened by age but still intellectually spry -- appears unable to remain in the shadow of his Argentinean successor Francis, creating the appearance of "two popes" at odds.
A night at the west end
Guru, Eric E Surbano, Published on 11/10/2019
» For anyone who loves musicals, Les Misérables and The Phantom Of The Opera are names you're probably acquainted with. You would also know that the West End productions of these musicals are no joke.
An occasion to remember
Life, Published on 25/07/2019
» In honour of His Majesty the King's birthday, a most uplifting concert was presented by the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra earlier this month at the Thailand Cultural Centre. Featuring one of today's most eminent trumpeters, the Belgian soloist Manu Mellaerts, alongside his compatriot maestro Michel Tilkin on the podium (music director of the RBSO), the large audience was treated to a magnificent interpretation of the most famous work written for his instrument: Josef Haydn's evergreen Trumpet Concerto In E-flat Major. All of the instantly memorable tunes of the classical master's last work for full orchestra, composed in 1796, came across with a freshness and vitality which also inspired the orchestral ranks to participate in their most focused and musically tasteful fashion.
Italian arias offered for a good cause
Life, Published on 03/12/2018
» An exceptional assembly of world-class musicians and vocalists will be brought for an elaborate interpretation at "The Taste Of Music" at the Royal Ballroom of the Mandarin Oriental Bangkok, Charoen Krung Road, on Friday.
150 years of Rossini
Life, Harry Rolnick, Published on 19/06/2018
» 'Opera would be absolutely perfect," said Giachino Rossini one day while cooking a gourmet meal in his Paris mansion. "If only we could get rid of those damned singers."