The news from Santa Fe Opera last week-end is good, unexpectedly so. The British composer Thomas Ades’ new (2004) opera, a riff on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, has been rumored hard to perform and harder to hear.
Month: July 2006
Patrizia Ciofi embrase Orange
http://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/20060731.FIG000000024_patrizia_ciofi_embrase_orange.html
PONCHIELLI: La Gioconda
La Gioconda, dramma lirico in four acts.
Music composed by Amilcare Ponchielli (1834–1886). Libretto by Arrigo Boito (under the pseudonym Tobia Gorrio), based upon Victor Hugo’s
Angelo, Tyrant of Padua (1835).
Daniel Harding: Conducting his life with brio
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/reviews/story/0,,1833325,00.html
A Little-Known Opera That Was Fit for a Prince
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/30/arts/music/30holl.html
Boris Godunov ó Royal Opera House, London
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/reviews/story/0,,1832968,00.html
Une nouvelle maison Mozart
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3246,36-799609@51-791987,0.html