http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000088&sid=a3AzMlO.5nS4&refer=culture
Year: 2006
Shopping, Singing, Laughing: Anna Netrebko Talks About Herself
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000088&sid=aV7Wa0YcEdeU&refer=culture
Spoleto offers eclectic array for its 30th year
http://www.timesanddemocrat.com/articles/2006/04/25/features/doc4446ea3e64552024498716.txt
Matthias Goerne ó Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/reviews/story/0,,1760023,00.html
Semiramide, ThÈ‚tre des Champs ElysÈes, Paris
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/c733c13e-d3b4-11da-b2f3-0000779e2340.html
Deborah Voigt as Tosca
Tosca “is based on a play by Sardou, which was written for the famous actress Sarah Bernhardt. Sardou crafted melodrama rather well, and Pucciniís librettists distilled the playís main attributes of action, sex, love, lust, politics, art and religion into one of the most popular operas of the verismo style.” Tosca is now playing at the Met with Deborah Voigt in the title role. Here are two reviews.
RenÈ Pape, Bass From on High, Adept at Cameos and Star Turns
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/23/arts/music/23gure.html
Tˆnet, ihr Pauken!
Bach’s famed career as an organist, his prolific output of church cantatas, and his personal piety, all conspire to keep the image of the churchly Bach front and center in the modern mind, despite the enduring familiarity and popularity of Brandenburg concertos, sonatas, and suites.