In his introduction to the Welsh National Opera’s celebratory 60th anniversary season programme Carlo Rizzi, their Music Director, declares that “we are bringing the best of Wales to the rest of the world ó and the best of the world to Wales”.
Month: September 2006
Domingo, Midori, Glass Open California’s New Segerstrom Hall
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aOYvyH9Iec.M&refer=muse
150 Years of Opera in Chicago
This is a very attractive book, which, in addition to the expected text, has many striking photos, a list of the operas performed in Chicago, indicating all the seasons in which each work was given, and a season by season chronology, limited to professional companies.
A ‘King,’ a ‘Messiah’ and a conductor
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/17/PKGI4KVHTU1.DTL&type=performance
He had his dark, anguished side – but he loved women and vodka too
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1874136,00.html
Runnicles won’t renew contract with S.F. Opera
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/16/DDGJOL63271.DTL
ASHLEY: Perfect Lives; Celestial Excursions; Foreign Experiences
Robert Ashley has the uncanny ability to sprinkle diamonds amidst great swaths of apparently trivial and quotidian detritus–diamonds that trigger the nervous system in an intensely stimulating fashion.