A Relative Newcomer Makes Her Mark

http://www.nysun.com/article/39518

Paris’s Art-Deco Salle Pleyel Opens After Four-Year Restoration

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aL1Yp5cJKYBI&refer=muse

Un ballo in maschera, San Francisco

(Photo by Terrence McCarthy) By Allan Ulrich [Financial Times, 11 September 2006] Regime change in operatic duchies is never smooth, but need it always look and sound so wrenching? The…

Opera in Paris

What a difference a year makes. Music lovers who rely on their memories to find the right places to hear music in Paris could be for a surprise if they do not check beforehand what France has now to offer.

BEETHOVEN: Overtures
BRUCKNER: Symphony no. 4

The later G¸nter Wand was a remarkable interpreter of Bruckner’s music, as is demonstrated in this live recording from the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival.

Tragic Love in a Garret, on the Brink of World War I

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/11/arts/music/11bohe.html

Joshua Bell’s Good Taste

Sony Records occasionally still sends the odd CD to reviewers hoping they will give it notice.

`Gaddafi’ Premieres at ENO, Raises Questions of Taste, Sanity

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aI_PfbXUuznk&refer=muse

San Francisco Opera Opens Season with Voigt in Verdi’s Ballo (and a Free Concert in Golden Gate Park)

http://www.playbillarts.com/news/article/5180.html

Auschwitz Women’s Orchestra Provided a Soundtrack for Suffering

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=abA.auUM.KmE&refer=muse