http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=15&art_id=19785&sid=8192356&con_type=1
Month: May 2006
Exploring music fun with Barenboim, Hampson
http://www.suntimes.com/output/delacoma/cst-ftr-hampson30.html
Check the Numbers: Rumors of Classical Music’s Demise Are Dead Wrong
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/28/arts/music/28kozi.html
At Los Angeles Opera, Questions and Costs Follow ‘Grendel’
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/27/arts/music/27gren.html
DONIZETTI: Maria Stuarda
By sheer coincidence I attended a concert performance of this opera at the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp at the same moment I received these CDís.
DONIZETTI: Roberto Devereux
When asked whether he believed Rossini had composed Il Barbiere di Siviglia in thirteen days, nineteen-year-old Donizetti is supposed to have replied,
NICOLAI: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor
Klaus-Edgar Wichmann, in the booklet essay to this Capriccio recording from 2002 of Otto Nicolai’s Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, describes the work as having “asserted itself in the opera repertoire for more than a hundred years.”
Flights of Madness — Munich’s New “Orlando”
Returning from Munich’s new production of Handel’s “Orlando” at thirty thousand feet above clouds which might have done service as props for that opera when first staged in 1733, it occurred that the great man himself could have had things to say about what might be director David Alden’s valedictory baroque piece for the Bayerische Staatsoper.