20 Aug 2005
Discovering Rossini in Pesaro
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/7b50f154-104d-11da-bd5c-00000e2511c8.html
https://boydellandbrewer.com/bizet-s-i-carmen-i-uncovered.html
https://boydellandbrewer.com/the-operas-of-sergei-prokofiev.html
https://www.wexfordopera.com/media/news/incoming-artistic-director-rosetta-cucchi-announces-her-2020-programme
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo43988096.html
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=809636
https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/music/twentieth-century-and-contemporary-music/prokofievs-soviet-operas?format=HB
https://boydellandbrewer.com/the-operas-of-benjamin-britten.html
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-opera-singers-acting-toolkit-9781350006454/
https://h-france.net/vol18reviews/vol18no52palidda.pdf
http://www.operatoday.com/content/2018/08/glyndebourne_an.php
A musical challenge to our view of the past
https://vimeo.com/operarara/how-to-rescue-an-opera
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/7b50f154-104d-11da-bd5c-00000e2511c8.html
Beauty is a moral imperative for many Italians. That can be bemusing for an outsider, not least in the field of opera direction, where decoration tends to take precedence over meaning, and aesthetic gratification over substance.