Few works seem more seminal to our understanding of J. S. Bach than the church cantatas, written over a wide chronological swath of his career, sometimes as part of occasional duties, other times in what was clearly a frenzy of steady prolificity.
Year: 2006
MASSENET: Le Roi de Lahore
Sergio Seggalini, former editor of OpÈra International (now OpÈra Magazine), is the artistic director of both La Fenice and the Festival of Martina Franca.
Wife-Killing Bluebeard Gets Perky New Spouse at Covent Garden
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000088&sid=apGLs0dQHwco&refer=culture
Our cultural revolution
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=15&art_id=19785&sid=8192356&con_type=1
Exploring music fun with Barenboim, Hampson
http://www.suntimes.com/output/delacoma/cst-ftr-hampson30.html
Check the Numbers: Rumors of Classical Music’s Demise Are Dead Wrong
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/28/arts/music/28kozi.html
At Los Angeles Opera, Questions and Costs Follow ‘Grendel’
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/27/arts/music/27gren.html
DONIZETTI: Maria Stuarda
By sheer coincidence I attended a concert performance of this opera at the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp at the same moment I received these CDís.