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Year: 2007
Kate Royal and Christine Rice, Queenís Hall, Edinburgh
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/7bcd8f38-4ffd-11dc-a6b0-0000779fd2ac.html
Unsuk Chin’s “Alice in Wonderland”
“Who in the world am I?” proclaimed the posters all over Munich, reducing Lewis Carroll’s famous conundrum to a sound-bite.
The Savvy Operator Who Aced That Newfangled Art Form, Opera
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/17/arts/music/17mont.html?ref=music
Sea-shanty festival a porthole on Brittany’s mode de vie
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0816/p20s01-litr.html
The Week that Was for Opera: Santa Fe ó Dallas ó Denver/St Louis ó Toronto
The week just ended was certainly of historic moment in the world of North American opera companies.
Katharina Wagner’s Debut at Bayreuth
If you are in need of a Romantic, Alt-Nuernberg, Beloved-Old-Vaterland-As-It-(Never)-Was sort of production of “Die Meistersinger,” you would probably do well to wait for the Met revival, and stay far far away (actually, add another “far” to that) from the Bayreuth Festpiel’s latest “Skandal”-ripe interpretation.
Santa Fe Opera in Changing Times
Santa Fe Operaís announcement August 10 that English-born impresario, Richard Gaddes, General Director of the company since 2001, will retire at the end of season 2008, took the local opera community by surprise.