This season the Royal Opera House has recreated “Richard Eyre’s popular production of Verdi’s La Traviata, which draws on striking period designs by Bob Crowley to amplify the tensions and confrontations that make Violetta’s predicament so tragic and her portrayal so real.” Here are three reviews:
Month: January 2006
GERSHWIN: Porgy and Bess
So EMI has declared this 1988 Porgy and Bess to be one of the ìGreat Recordings of the Century.î That may settle the issue for many ñ but not all.
Die Schˆne Magelone ó Wigmore Hall, London
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/reviews/story/0,11712,1688571,00.html
A NICE COUP: VILLAZ”N in his first ìWERTHERî
The French city of Nice has this past week been enjoying some wonderful weather and the aptly-named Cote díAzur has truly lived up to its name.
Chamber Orchestra of Europe/von Otter, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/reviews/article338988.ece
Benvenuto Cellini, OpÈra national du Rhin Strasbourg
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/f2871dde-86fe-11da-8521-0000779e2340.html
FIRST ANNUAL BEVERLY SILLS ARTIST AWARD AT THE METROPOLITAN OPERA GIVEN TO NATHAN GUNN
http://www.operatoday.com/documents/Sills_Award.pdf
IT MUST NOT HAVE BEEN EASY BEING MOZART
It must not have been an easy life, being Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). Perhaps even more so after the fact when scholars began to do their research and ìwanna besî began their intimations and psychoanalyzing. In the more seventy-five years of Mozart scholarship and its coming of age, one must ask: How much more is there to learn, to research?