STRAUSS: Capriccio

It is not uncommon for opera on DVD to have credits for two directors. In the case of this Paris Capriccio, a new production from June 2004, the credits list Robert Carsen as the stage director and Francois Roussillon as directing for TV and video.

Trinity Sunday at Westminster Abbey

Under the direction of James OíDonnell since January 2000, the Choir of Westminster Abbey has cultivated a robust singing style that well serves the music of this new recording and continues the Abbeyís position as one of the obvious standard bearers of the English cathedral tradition.

Bringing Massenet to the masses

http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=70022006

Soprano’s versatility sparkled

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/artsentertainment/2002742808_opera16.html

Schumann Rarity: An Opera of Bits and Pieces of ‘Faust’

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/16/arts/music/16faus.html

MOZART: La clemenza di Tito

La clemenza di Tito. Opera seria in due atti (K. 621).

Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Libretto by Caterino Mazzol‡ based on a text by Pietro Metastasio.

Lyric hopes to lift curse with restaged ‘Rigoletto’

http://www.suntimes.com/output/delacoma/sho-sunday-rig15.html

The Yeomen of New York

http://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/music/classical/reviews/15537/index.html

Everyone’s Invited to Wolfgang’s Party, Willing or Not

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/arts/music/15holl.html

Army Helps DNA Scientists Unravel Mozart Mystery

http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,85019,00.html