http://www.nysun.com/article/64011
Year: 2007
A ëFigaroí With Youth, Agility and Eros
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/arts/music/04figa.html?_r=1&ref=music&oref=slogin
Das Rheingold, Royal Opera House, London
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/16568476-71c6-11dc-8960-0000779fd2ac.html
HAYNES: The End of Early Music ó A Period Performer’s History of Music for the Twenty-First Century
Once upon a time, there was something known as early music. This was not so much a repertoire, a musico-historical epoch, as an attitude, a counter-cultural group.
Carmen at ENO
There is a certain onerous responsibility in developing a new production of Carmen at a major house.
JAN¡?EK: Jen?fa
Across the country from Los Angeles, the Metropolitan Opera has opened its 2007-08 season with big stars (Netrebko, Alagna, Dessay, Giordani) in juicy, melodic operas by Donizetti and Gounod.
Allegri ìMiserereî; Palestrina ìMissa Papae Marcelliî
This is a recording that glories in iconicity.
Dusting off a MasterpieceÖ ìThe Fortunes of King Croesusî by Reinhard Keiser, coming to Opera North, Leeds and Minnesota Opera soon.
Masterpiece? The term rather depends on whether the artist in question was indeed a master and it might come as a surprise to learn that this little-known composer of the brief, but significant, German Baroque Opera period is regarded by many as just that.
Margaret Garner at NYCO
The New York City Operaís production of Richard Danielpourís and Toni Morrisonís opera, Margaret Garner, boldly faces the ugly history of slavery in the United States, and the racism inherent in the institution of opera.