http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/01/29/btgrimes129.xml
Month: January 2008
Two Queens in Full Cry
What constitutes an “international opera star” these days, anyway?
‘Judas Maccabaeus’
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-et-judas28jan28,1,3165563.story
Italian girl charms with humour, style
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=d4f5aa54-5a31-466a-aeb6-6598c2cdbd2b&k=66003
Soprano shines in silly `Pearl Fishers’ As the spurned Zurga violently.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_news/story/395904.html
ÑEugen Oneginì: Pique Dame als Psychothriller
http://diepresse.com/home/kultur/klassik/357867/index.do?_vl_backlink=/home/kultur/klassik/index.do
The Master Class Continues
http://www.nysun.com/article/70199
TRAETTA: Ippolito ed Aricia
Ippolito ed Aricia: Tragedia in five acts.
New Lyric season plays it safe
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/chi-0124lyricjan24,1,1162672.story?ctrack=5&cset=true
Wagner: Orchestral Hightlights from the Operas
As much as Richard Wagner espoused opera reform in his theoretical writings by bringing to his works for the stage a closer unity between music and text, his actual means of doing so at times involved the use of orchestral forces that sometimes overwhelmed the sung word.