http://news.ft.com/cms/s/cc39fae4-4d19-11da-ba44-0000779e2340.html
Year: 2005
Lyric meets challenges of ‘Manon Lescaut’
http://www.suntimes.com/output/delacoma/cst-ftr-lyric02.html
Stellar combo helps Lyric deliver winner
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/chi-0511020021nov02,1,6668586.story?coll=chi-ent_music-hed
Echoes of the superstar castrato
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/11/02/bmschol02.xml&sSheet=/arts/2005/11/02/ixartleft.html
Audiences Love a Minimalist ‘Ring’ Cycle; Critics Aren’t Sure
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/02/arts/music/02ring.html
ROSSINI: Der Barbier von Sevilla (Barbiere di Siviglia)
Rossiniís masterpiece is based on Beaumarchaisí first of three playsóLe Barbier de SÈville, La folle journÈe ou Le Mariage de Figaro, and La MËre Coupableódetailing the adventures of Figaro, a barber from Seville, Spain. Rossini was not the first, nor the last composer to set the story to music: Giovanni Maria Pagliardi, Friedrich Ludwig Benda, Johann AndrÈ, Francesco Morlacchi, Miguel Nieto and GerÛnimo JimÈnez, Nicolo Isouard, and H. R. Bishop are some of the names that come to mind.
A thrilling spectacle of Puccini’s heroines
http://www.newsday.com/features/printedition/ny-turandot4492280nov01,0,3529973.story?coll=ny-features-print
BORODIN: Prince Igor (Highlights)
Not long ago the record label Delos announced that they would embark on a series of studio recordings of highlights from operas. This intriguing idea seemed to address the recording crisis spawned by the shrinking market for full studio sets, with their high cost for both producer and purchaser.
vilaine fille: Turandot
Puccini’s Turandot is an opera to whose sinister charms I was long immune. I’m not sure what happened in recent years to make me love it.