http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/reviews/article571342.ece
Year: 2006
Turn of the Screw at Kennedy Center
On May 22, the Kennedy Center’s Fortas Chamber Music Series and the Chateauville Foundation co-presented a fully staged production of Benjamin Britten’s haunting chamber opera The Turn of the Screw, conducted by Lorin Maazel. Here are three reviews:
Rolando VillazÛn ó Opera Recital
I’ve carefully listened several times to this new solo album (his third) by Rolando VillazÛn and it grows on you, though there are a few weaknesses.
PUCCINI: Turandot
This must be the first Turandot that has in the sleeve notes three photographs of the soprano who sings Liu compared to two of the lady in the title role.
Da gelo a gelo, Rococo Theatre, Schwetzingen
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/bd064196-ea7a-11da-9566-0000779e2340.html
Shostakovich: Settling old Soviet scores
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/article549667.ece
Glyndebourne opens with CosÏ fan tutte
Glyndebourne opened this year’s festival with “a new production of Mozartís CosÏ fan tutte, subtitled ëThe school for loversí, will open the 2006 Festival. This masterpiece includes some of Mozartís most exquisite music, and CosÏís now established popularity, following comparative neglect in the 19th century, is partly due to Glyndebourneís championing of the work since the opening of the Festival in 1934.” Here are some initial reviews: