http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/23/arts/music/23tend.html?_r=1&ref=music&oref=slogin
Month: January 2007
BROSSARD: Grands Motets
Sébastien de Brossard (1655-1730) was, until recently, known to the musical world (if he was known at all) as a lexicographer (he prepared the first French musical dictionary, published in 1703) and collector, whose collection went entire, together with a catalogue he prepared, to the National Library in Paris, something which must have been almost unheard of in early eighteenth-century Europe, though commonplace today (imagine if Bach had managed to do the same with his scores!).
OONY Gives Rare Performance of Rossini’s Otello
There are three reasons often cited for the paucity of performances of Rossini’s Otello: the horrible hack job of the Shakespearean drama by librettist Francesco Maria Berio, the difficulties in casting an opera requiring at least three top-rate tenor voices, and comparisons with Verdi’s popular opera of the same title.
Gustav Mahler. Letters to His Wife
True to the title of this collection, the present volume of correspondence edited by Henry-Louis de La Grange and Günther Weiss — here translated, revised , and supplemented by Antony Beaumont — offers, to date, the most complete body of letters of Gustav Mahler to his wife Alma.
“Rusalka, la ninfa che Ë in noi”
http://www.lastampa.it/redazione/cmsSezioni/spettacoli/200701articoli/16942girata.asp
Ovation pour le “Don Giovanni” mis en scËne par Haneke
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/imprimer_element/0,40-0@2-3246,50-858185,0.html
In Austin, Echoes of a Distant War in an Operaís American Premiere
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/22/arts/music/22glas.html?_r=1&ref=music&oref=slogin
A Tenor Cashes in on His Money Notes
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/arts/music/21gure.html?_r=1&ref=music&oref=slogin
Lebanon’s Christine Brewer is respected for her voice, admired for her personality
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/entertainment/stories.nsf/music/story/4FF03E460CE64BF886257268008333A2?OpenDocument&highlight=2%2C%22brewer%22