VERDI: La Traviata

Callas fans better skip this review, as they wonít like the tone, the words, or whatever slights real or imagined they may perceive.

Los Angeles Opera Is Given $6 Million for a ëRingí Cycle

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/07/arts/music/07oper.html

MAHLER: Symphony no. 7

At the expense of stating a truism, the music of Gustav Mahler, like that of other composers, is best experienced live in the concert hall.

PUCCINI: La Fanciulla del West

This Fanciulla is such a wonderful issue because, for once, none of the three protagonists ever recorded their role commercially, so that one is spared the many doublings often met in live recordings.

MAHLER: Symphony no. 8

During the last few years Antoni Wit has recorded Mahler’s symphonies one by one, such that he is building a fine cycle for the Naxos label.

The Metropolitan Opera Reaches Groundbreaking Agreements

http://www.operatoday.com/documents/Met_New_Media_release.pdf

All 22 Mozart Stage Works for TV and DVD

http://www.operatoday.com/documents/Mozart_22_Unitel_Classica Press Release.pdf

Le retour de l’opÈra franÁais

http://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/20060905.FIG000000154_le_retour_de_l_opera_francais.html

Meet the iTunes Wannabes

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2006/tc20060905_083985.htm?campaign_id=rss_null

Science Says Kandinsky Was Right – Paintings Can Be Heard

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=50968