http://www.timesanddemocrat.com/articles/2006/04/25/features/doc4446ea3e64552024498716.txt
Month: April 2006
Matthias Goerne ó Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/reviews/story/0,,1760023,00.html
Semiramide, ThÈ‚tre des Champs ElysÈes, Paris
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/c733c13e-d3b4-11da-b2f3-0000779e2340.html
Deborah Voigt as Tosca
Tosca “is based on a play by Sardou, which was written for the famous actress Sarah Bernhardt. Sardou crafted melodrama rather well, and Pucciniís librettists distilled the playís main attributes of action, sex, love, lust, politics, art and religion into one of the most popular operas of the verismo style.” Tosca is now playing at the Met with Deborah Voigt in the title role. Here are two reviews.
RenÈ Pape, Bass From on High, Adept at Cameos and Star Turns
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/23/arts/music/23gure.html
Tˆnet, ihr Pauken!
Bach’s famed career as an organist, his prolific output of church cantatas, and his personal piety, all conspire to keep the image of the churchly Bach front and center in the modern mind, despite the enduring familiarity and popularity of Brandenburg concertos, sonatas, and suites.
Victoria de los AngelesóProfile in Music
For those without much time to read reviews, I can be extremely brief: hurry and buy this DVD. For all the others: the same advise though maybe they want to know the reasons for such a purchase.
MOZART: Don Giovanni
Calixto Bieito has made his name as an opera director with productions of unrelenting violence and sex, perhaps exemplified by last year’s Abduction from the Seraglio in Berlin with its full nudity and graphic mutilations.