Poliuto, Tragedia lirica in three acts.
Music composed by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848). Libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, after the tragedy Polyeucte (1640) by Pierre Corneille.
Year: 2006
Art Song Festival founder uses charm to bring in artists
http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/1148114069243910.xml&coll=2
Tolomeo, London Handel Festival, Britten Hall, London
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/reviews/article549631.ece
Placido Domingo ó Great Scenes
Domingo-fans probably have all complete performances from which these scenes were culled, as they were widely broadcast in Europe during the eighties.
ENO’s `Makropulos Case’ Has Mackerras, 337-Year-Old Heroine
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000088&sid=a.H4T_HzK11o&refer=culture
HALFFTER: Don Quijote
I can’t imagine a more utopian enterprise for a composer than writing an opera at the end of the twentieth century.
Urge.com and Online Classical (Whatever That Is)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/19/arts/music/19urge.html
Hvorostovsky Leads a Very Russian Decoding of Michelangelo’s Writings
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/19/arts/music/19dmit.html