I doubt many admirers of Leontyne Price will be tempted to buy this issue.
Month: October 2007
La Nilsson: My Life in Opera
Birgit Nilsson probably never heard of “the Protestant work ethic,” but she didn’t need to know it.
MAZZOCCHI: Madrigali e Dialoghi
The Roman composer Mazzocchi is one of those figures known only to musicologists, and it is a pity, for this disc contains first-rate music.
Biondi’s Labors Won, or Unearthing The Lost Vivaldi
An expedition against the famed warring women, the Amazons, ranking as Hercules’ ninth labor out the canonic twelve, provided the subject for the libretto by Antonio Salvi (not Giacomo Francesco Bussani, as hitherto misattributed) that Vivaldi set to music in 1723 as his own sixteenth operatic labor.
Opera at the BBC Proms 2007
Glyndebourne Festival Opera’s guest appearance is an annual fixture at the Proms, and this year the work of choice was Verdi’s Macbeth, in a semi-staged performance on July 24th based on Richard Jones’s new production for this year’s Festival.
Monteverdi with an image problem
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/65be501e-7e61-11dc-8fac-0000779fd2ac.html
This Time, No Laughing at the Witches
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/arts/music/21gure.html?_r=1&ref=music&oref=slogin