Laugh Now, Stupid! Garsington’s `Lady of the Lake’ Is Bad Joke

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a14qNXpmXMnI&refer=muse

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.

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.

WAXMAN: Joshua

Franz Waxman was working with librettist James Forsyth on an opera, Dr. Jekyll, when the composer’s wife died.