Cor blimey, look at the struts on that!

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14932-2000097,00.html

No Gaddafi? Send for Gilbert and Sullivan

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=P8&xml=/arts/2006/01/18/bmrup18.xml

On This Day: 20 January

http://www.operabase.com/onthisday.cgi?lang=en

Theatre of Voices ó Jacqueline du PrÈ Concert Hall, Oxford

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/reviews/story/0,,1690740,00.html

The Diva Live ó Wilhelmenia Fernandez & Bruno Fontaine

In 1981 Wilhelminia Fernandez became somewhat of a cult figure when the French thriller ìDivaî appeared on the screens. For a time her ìEbben, ne andro lontanoî from La Wally almost became a hit and several commercials used a small part of the aria.

Singer Horne Keeps Schedule Despite Cancer

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MARILYN_HORNE_CANCER?SITE=AZTUC&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Little Debbie

http://www.timeout.com/newyork/Details.do?page=1&xyurl=xyl://TONYWebArticles1/538/music/little_debbie.xml

Not a Bitter Note in Their Song

http://www.nysun.com/article/26119

La Traviata, Royal Opera House, London ó Three Reviews

This season the Royal Opera House has recreated “Richard Eyre’s popular production of Verdi’s La Traviata, which draws on striking period designs by Bob Crowley to amplify the tensions and confrontations that make Violetta’s predicament so tragic and her portrayal so real.” Here are three reviews:

GERSHWIN: Porgy and Bess

So EMI has declared this 1988 Porgy and Bess to be one of the ìGreat Recordings of the Century.î That may settle the issue for many ñ but not all.