22 Sep 2005
Immortal Moments, Intermittently
http://www.nysun.com/article/20390
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://www.nysun.com/article/20390
By Jay Nordlinger [NY Sun, 22 September 2005]
Massenet's "Manon" — not to be confused with Puccini's "Manon Lescaut" — has some of the most beloved music in opera. I think, particularly, of two soprano arias: "Adieu, notre petite table," a haunting G-minor beauty; and the Gavotte, kind of a showy party piece. And I think of the two tenor arias: "Le Reve" ("The Dream"), a piece of gentle D-major perfection; and "Ah, fuyez, douce image," a romantic outburst in E-flat major.