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Month: June 2007
Hey, Giovanni, Put a Shirt on. Youíll Catch Cold.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/18/arts/music/18giov.html?ref=music
Out Amid the Cold Night Air the Devil Dares to Tread
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/16/arts/music/16faus.html?ref=music
Singing! Dancing! Tragedy! Comedy! Resurrecting a 1600s Operatic Spectacle
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/16/arts/music/16lull.html?_r=1&ref=music&oref=slogin
Opera’s ‘IphigÈnie’ cuts to the heart of myth in austere, intense production
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/16/DDGN7QFKCS1.DTL&hw=kosman&sn=002&sc=355
Der Rosenkavalier, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/b62e681c-18ff-11dc-a961-000b5df10621.html
BRITTEN: Death in Venice
Two productions of Death in Venice within a month : one high budget and glamorous at the ENO and the other at Aldeburgh with a much more humble pedigree.
LASSUS: Psalmi Davidis pœnitentiales
Among Lasso’s vast output there are few works more imposing than his collected settings of the seven penitential psalms.
WAXMAN: Joshua
Franz Waxman was working with librettist James Forsyth on an opera, Dr. Jekyll, when the composer’s wife died.
New Frocks for Old – Cardiff Singer of the World, 2007
Back in the early 1980’s two good ideas came to fruition: the much-needed new concert hall for Cardiff, capital city of Wales, and plans to hold within it the first “Singer of the World” competition.