http://www.musicomh.com/opera/iolanthe_0206.htm
Year: 2006
Review: Gheorghiu Triumphs in ‘Traviata’
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/05/AR2006020500501.html
Body and Soul – A New ìPoppeaî in London
Monteverdiís great work, ìLíIncoronazione di Poppeaî in a ìsemi-stagedî format, has been chosen to showcase the talents of some exciting young singers and musicians in London recently as the first part of an ambitious project aimed at a more holistic approach to singing opera.
TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake
This 2005 release was filmed at a performance in La Scalaís temporary home, Milanís Teatro degli Arcimboldi, in April 2004. It is based on the Burmeister version of the ballet of some 50 years ago, first introduced in the West by the Paris Opera.
Le Nozze di Figaro at ROH ó Four Reviews
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE: “To mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, The Royal Opera mounts a new production of his setting of the second of Beaumarchais’ domestic but politically charged ‘Figaro’ comedies, as adapted by librettist Lorenzo da Ponte. ”
Concertos, Yes, but a Mozart Never Far From His Operatic Impulse
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/02/arts/music/02phil–extra.html
WAGNER: Der Ring des Nibelungen
It has been nearly thirty years since the centenary production of the Ring at Bayreuth, and the controversy and even scandal that it generated have long since faded into memory.