http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/50a04e12-a8cd-11dc-ad9e-0000779fd2ac.html
Month: December 2007
Billy Budd, Barbican, London
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f4dd987a-a80c-11dc-9485-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1
Kwiecien’s vocal blasts give songs a pummeling
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/11/DD3PTRHH5.DTL
The Turn of the Screw at ENO
Not long ago, English National Opera declared an intention to capitalise on its name and history by placing greater emphasis on English works.
Otello ó Kirov Opera
Despite 19th-century Russiaís reputation as an Italian opera haven, Verdiís late masterpiece Otello found acceptance there only with great difficulty, even though in its 1889 premiere the title role acquired a great local interpreter in the Mariinsky Theater primo uomo, Nikolai Figner.
Composer Karlheinz Stockhausen dies
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5j2OLVL0rWGZE0bskTr5kVlUqJLag
6 Characters in Search of a Dimension, in Different Operatic Tempos
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/10/arts/music/10next.html?_r=1&ref=music&oref=slogin
JÈrÙme Deschamps veut redorer líOpÈra-Comique
http://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/2007/12/10/03004-20071210ARTFIG00381-jerome-deschamps-veut-redorer-lopera-comique-.php