Celebrating a Fabled Conductor

http://www.nysun.com/article/46961

SILVER: The Thief of Love

If the audience for new American art music seems small and is (supposedly) shrinking, then the
audience for new American operas is even more exclusive.

Opera Night

Some interesting repertory choices and the participation of some of today’s most attractive singers make this particular “gala” evening of “walk on-sing-walk off” entertainment more consistently enjoyable than these affairs often are.

Serious opera? Youíre having a laugh

http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/features/display.var.1126888.0.0.php

Opera on tap: Program puts classical music in pubs

http://theedge.bostonherald.com/artsNews/view.bg?articleid=177502

Caligula, Oper Kˆln, Cologne

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/1a212b30-a587-11db-a4e0-0000779e2340.html

Scaling a Bach Monument With a Masterly Touch

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/15/arts/music/15chor.html

Everything in the Garden looks lovely

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/article2152830.ece

WAGNER: Tannh‰user

The ever-busy Brian Large directed the 1989 filming (for TV) of a Wolfgang Wagner Tannh‰user production which had debuted at Bayreuth in 1985.

SHOSTAKOVICH: The Complete Symphonies

Recording a Shostakovich cycle has become de rigueur in recent years ó a conductorís mandatory right of passage, like recording a Beethoven or a Mahler cycle.