http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/21/arts/music/21simo.html?ref=music
Year: 2007
A Mezzo-Soprano Whoís Determined to Do It Her Way, With or Without Star Turns
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/21/arts/music/21zaji.html?_r=1&ref=music&oref=slogin
MOZART: Die Hochzeit des Figaro
Yes, the German title must be employed for this filmed Nozze en Deutsch from 1967.
Khovanshchina
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/opera/article1407803.ece
WAGNER: Parsifal
Recorded on 28 March 1970 in Rome, this recording of Parsifal makes available a live
performance conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch, one of the foremost interpreters of Wagner’s works in his day.
HAYDN: Les Sept Dernières Paroles du Christ
Franz Joseph Haydn’s Seven Last Words is well known, both as a familiar part of modern Lenten devotions and also as something of a stylistic oddity, I suspect.
WAGNER: Parsifal
From the 2005 season of the “reborn” La Fenice comes this Dynamic DVD of Wagner’s Parsifal.
Opera North: Breathing new life into “Orfeo”
Friday night in Leeds, in the North of England, at the city’s marvellously restored Grand Theatre, with the pavements outside shining wet and a tidal wave of umbrellas surging past, was an
exciting place to be.