http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/reviews/story/0,11712,1688571,00.html
Year: 2006
A NICE COUP: VILLAZ”N in his first ìWERTHERî
The French city of Nice has this past week been enjoying some wonderful weather and the aptly-named Cote díAzur has truly lived up to its name.
Chamber Orchestra of Europe/von Otter, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/reviews/article338988.ece
Benvenuto Cellini, OpÈra national du Rhin Strasbourg
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/f2871dde-86fe-11da-8521-0000779e2340.html
FIRST ANNUAL BEVERLY SILLS ARTIST AWARD AT THE METROPOLITAN OPERA GIVEN TO NATHAN GUNN
http://www.operatoday.com/documents/Sills_Award.pdf
STRAUSS: Capriccio
It is not uncommon for opera on DVD to have credits for two directors. In the case of this Paris Capriccio, a new production from June 2004, the credits list Robert Carsen as the stage director and Francois Roussillon as directing for TV and video.
Trinity Sunday at Westminster Abbey
Under the direction of James OíDonnell since January 2000, the Choir of Westminster Abbey has cultivated a robust singing style that well serves the music of this new recording and continues the Abbeyís position as one of the obvious standard bearers of the English cathedral tradition.
IT MUST NOT HAVE BEEN EASY BEING MOZART
It must not have been an easy life, being Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). Perhaps even more so after the fact when scholars began to do their research and ìwanna besî began their intimations and psychoanalyzing. In the more seventy-five years of Mozart scholarship and its coming of age, one must ask: How much more is there to learn, to research?