Season to include world premiere of Saariaho’s Adriana Mater L’Opera de Paris has announced its 2005-2006 season. It will begin on 9 September with Antonin Dvorak’s Rusalka. This will be…
Year: 2005
Peter Schreier and András Schiff in Budapest
http://www.budapestsun.com/full_story.asp?ArticleId=%7BE7C4DDC5E540432690A5D9DE90CD1BA1%7D&From=Style
Opera Australia Presents Death in Venice
Since opera began, composers have honoured, or pretended to honour, the principle that the music should serve the words, though, in reality, it is done more in the breach than the observance.
Fidelio in Stir
First, you signed the waiver relieving the venue of any liability for your injury or death. Then, you were handed a flashlight and felt the chill in the air – not a typical cold draft but the prickly tingle that comes with unquiet spirits nearby.
Simone Young’s Debut
http://www.theage.com.au/news/arts/frau-young-takes-hamburg/2005/09/04/1125772405206.html
Die Presse Interviews Welser-Möst
http://www.diepresse.com/Artikel.aspx?channel=k&ressort=k&id=504303
The Cambridge Companion to Elgar
Perhaps some Opera Today readers may wonder why a book on Sir Edward Elgar merits reviewing on this particular site. The composer never came near to completing an opera. In…
Vivaldi and the chorus of unwanted children
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/7b2889a6-1829-11da-a14b-00000e2511c8.html
Edinburgh reports: slow burn gives sumptuous results
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/08/29/bmbrewer29.xml
The Met Broadcasts Have a New Sponsor
Metropolitan Opera General Manager Joseph Volpe announced today that Toll Brothers, America’s luxury home builder™, will be the corporate sponsor for the Metropolitan Opera Saturday afternoon radio broadcasts which will celebrate their 75th anniversary this season. The twenty-one radio broadcasts will run from December 17 of this year to May 6, 2006, and will be heard over the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network, which comprises over 300 stations in the United States and reaches eleven million people in forty-two countries around the globe. The Annenberg Foundation and the Vincent A. Stabile Foundation will continue to provide generous support for this season’s broadcasts as part of their long-term commitments to the future of this program.