http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/arts/classicalmusic/5530057.html
Month: February 2008
Madam Butterfly at ENO
Anthony Minghella’s visually-arresting staging, a co-production with New York’s Metropolitan Opera and the Lithuanian National Opera, returned this month to its original home at the London Coliseum after a gap of two years.
Italian Opera at the Liceu
The Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, after suffering a calamitous fire in the early 1990s, reopened in 1999, lovingly restored. TDK has released a series of DVDs from the…
MAHLER: Das Lied von der Erde
Premiered posthumously, the symphonic song-cycle Das Lied von der Erde by Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) remains one of his defining works because of its synthesis of song and symphony, two genres he pursued throughout his career.
Opera journal going for a song
http://www.smh.com.au/news/arts/opera-journal-going-for-a-song/2008/02/05/1202090415658.html
Tragic story makes a fine ‘Concubine’
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/stories/DN-concubine_0206gl.ART.State.Edition2.4508981.html
IU Jacobs School of Music captures several Grammy nominations
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/7448.html
Pregnant star soprano Netrebko to marry ‘soon’: newspaper
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iVhEsRlYdaqsMC6edUf-dzJ9f-ew