Singing the Lament of a Fugitive Slave

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/arts/music/02gure.html?_r=1&ref=music&oref=slogin

Off with the trousers

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article2355869.ece

Capriccio, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh

http://arts.independent.co.uk/music/features/article2912166.ece

An Isolde in a million

http://arts.independent.co.uk/music/features/article2904239.ece

Prima la Musica, Poi le Parole / Dido & Aeneas

http://music.guardian.co.uk/live/story/0,,2157141,00.html

DONIZETTI: Anna Bolena

A career-making smash for Donizetti at its 1830 premiere, Anna Bolena eventually faded from the standard repertory.

BRUCKNER: Symphony no. 5

Recorded live at the Stiftsbasilika, St. Florian (Austrian) on 12 and 13 September 2006, this DVD offers a special performance of the famous Cleveland Orchestra outside its home at Severance Hall.

BERG: Wozzeck

Among the available DVDs of Alban Berg’s opera Wozzeck, the recent release of the production Rolf Liebermann made into a film i the late 1960s stands out for various reasons.

An Interview with Canadian mezzo-soprano, Kimberly Barber.

Uncut with Canada’s Mistress of the trouser-role: the multifaceted Kimberly Barber.

The Dream of Gerontius Opens Elora Summer Festival

Written in 1900, Elgarís Gerontius expresses the universal and existentialist struggle of death and rebirth. The allegorical significance of the piece touches on a need for faith, self-discovery, and acceptance of the world around us.