http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14932-2000097,00.html
Year: 2006
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.