Film music has become a sort of refuge for some music lovers turned off by the work of those serious music composers who have turned increasingly away from attempting an encounter with a broader public, retreating into an insular word of academic composition.
Month: April 2007
Mainstay Soprano Feels Snubbed by the Met
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/05/arts/music/05ruth.html?_r=1&ref=music&oref=slogin
Anna & Rolando Celebrate the Met, Metropolitan Opera, New York
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/bd6d35a6-e2ca-11db-a1c9-000b5df10621.html
‘Too fat’ opera star makes slight return
http://music.guardian.co.uk/classical/story/0,,2050116,00.html
Uproar in Vienna Over Opera-House Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401701.html
The Metropolitan Opera on DVD: Elektra, Luisa Miller and Tosca
With some deliberation the Metropolitan Opera releases DVD versions of live television broadcasts from its heyday as a PBS mainstay.
Quick Sex, Greed, Bryn Terfel Feature at London’s Royal Opera
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aCgAuv8Sv4rI&refer=muse
Straddling Pucciniís China, From Smaller Roles to Large Spectacle
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/arts/music/03tura.html?ref=music
National Council Audition Winners Named!
http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/news/news_flash.aspx