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Three modern operas from an American diva
Life, Published on 06/08/2019
» American diva Cassandra Black will return to the Kingdom to sing three modern opera heroines with Opera Siam in the Main Hall of Thailand Cultural Center, Ratchadaphisek Road, tomorrow at 8pm.
Somtow's daring DasJati continues magnificent run
Life, Stan Gayuski, Published on 20/06/2019
» Somtow Sucharitkul's DasJati -- Ten Lives Of The Buddha was one of the most daring ideas in the history of music, to take the iconic stories of the Buddha's last 10 lives from the Pali canon and adapt them as an integrated work consisting of 10 music dramas. Two years ago, Chariot Of Heaven, the fifth work in the series to be produced, received rapturous reviews in local and international media, but the Ten Lives disappeared from view after that. It seemed possible that the maverick artistic director of Opera Siam might have bitten off more than he could chew.
Star Wars in concert
Life, Published on 26/03/2019
» A year ago, Thailand's acclaimed Siam Sinfonietta performed the "Ultimate Star Wars Symphony Concert" with music from all nine films in the Star Wars universe up to that time.
Great music and princess dreams
Life, Published on 03/12/2018
» Opera Siam is kicking off its 18th season with "The Princess Concert" that will make every little girl's dream of becoming a cartoon princess come true, at Thailand Cultural Centre, Ratchadaphisek Road, on Dec 16 at 4pm and Dec 17 at 7.30pm.
The miracle of Mahler
Life, Published on 06/09/2018
» When Maestro Somtow conducts, the sparks are sure to fly.
It's a mean old man's world
Life, Published on 16/07/2018
» Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly has been reducing audiences to puddles of tears for over a century. Opera Siam's recently concluded two-night performance of the beloved opera was no exception.
Madame Butterflyin the age of human trafficking
Life, Published on 10/07/2018
» Tomorrow and on Thursday, Opera Siam's 17th season will close with two performances of one of the "top 10" operas, performed over 2,000 times around the world this year alone, Madame Butterfly. It's a tear-jerker, a relentlessly romantic piece full of famous melodies and a can't-lose formulaic plot: boy meets girl, boy dumps girl, girl kills herself.
Classic musical about global politics
Life, Published on 26/06/2018
» Earlier this month Somtow Sucharitkul was invited to conduct Giuseppe Verdi's much-loved opera Aida at Singapore's Esplanade Theatre with the Singapore Lyric Opera (SLO). It was an unprecedented event, as Maestro Somtow was the first Thai conductor to be invited to undertake this task.
Siam Sinfonietta strikes back with Star Wars concert
Life, Published on 15/03/2018
» The force will be with Siam Sinfonietta during its epic fundraiser concert that will relive the thrills of your childhood with music from all eight main sequence Star Wars movies in the Main Hall of Thailand Cultural Centre, Ratchadaphisek Road, today at 8pm.
Swansong or rebirth?
Life, Stan Gayuski, Published on 22/08/2017
» The final production of Opera Siam's 16th season earlier this month at the Thailand Cultural Centre was a revival of the much-praised third work in Somtow Sucharitkul's 10-part DasJati -- Ten Lives Of The Buddha, the story of a young boy named Sama whose devotion to his parents was so exemplary that it overcomes even death itself. In the opera, a statue of an ancient yakkhini -- a giantess -- comes to life to inform the citizens of Varanasi that the slain youth, once her son seven lifetimes before, is a Bodhisattva. The boy returns to life, and the ruler and people of Varanasi learn that a mother's love can extend across worlds and generations.