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Category: Isabel Bayrakdarian

  • Idomeneo at Opéra national de Paris

    * Notes *Wednesday's performance of Idomeneo at Palais Garnier had some beautiful singing. Tamar Iveri's Elettra could be strident and hysterical, without being ugly. Isabel Bayrakdarian (Ilia) does have quite a bit of vibrato at times, but her voice is pretty. Vesselina Kasarova certainly looked the role of Idamante, but her wobbly gasping was distracting.…

  • The Minnesota Opera’s 2009-2010 Season

    September 26- October 4 2009: Les pêcheurs de perles November 14-22 2009: Casanova's Homecoming January 30- February 7 2010: Roberto Devereux March 6-13 2010: La bohème April 10-24 2010: Salome Isabel Bayrakdarian sings Leïla in the Zandra Rhodes production of Les pêcheurs de perles. 2009-2010 Season | Official Site

  • Isabel Bayrakdarian at PBO

    * Notes * Philharmonia Baroque's first performance of The Queen of Egypt concert occurred last night in San Francisco. The evening started with the overture from Graun's Cleopatra e Cesare, and Isabel Bayrakdarian sang the aria "Tra le procelle assorto" from that work. The horns had a few sour notes, and Bayrakdarian warbled a bit,…

  • PBO’s Cleopatra Billboard

    Philharmonia Baroque has a billboard on Fifth Street at Harrison, visible from Interstate 80 West. The advertisement features soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian in costume as Cleopatra, as she is singing a number of arias in that role in March. Handel's Giulio Cesare, Graun's Cleopatra e Cesare, and Matheson's The Death of Cleopatra. The concert also includes…