Le Cid: opÈra in four acts and ten tableaux.
Month: April 2008
Tenor Giordani Sings for Pope at Yankee Stadium: Interview
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a24mkyUuvpKM&refer=muse
‘Candide’ Shows Its Age
http://www.nysun.com/arts/candide-shows-its-age
L’opÈra passion
http://www.lesoir.be/culture/musiques/musique-patrizia-ciofi-a-2008-04-11-590774.shtml
Feisty Orchestra Fuels Brussels Opera Changes
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a8Rsjad5Li8g&refer=muse
An Improbable Opera
http://www.nysun.com/arts/improbable-opera
Prokofiev’s The Gambler at the MET
That Fed Dostoevsky ñ sure plays a mean pinball!
KUMMER: Cello Duets
If Friedrich August Kummer is not a household word in your home, no reason for concern ó he is one of the prolific Kleinmeistern of the post-Beethoven generation, a generation for which the cost of printing had dropped so much that it was financially possible for a composer to produce hundreds of published opuses.
Frankurt Opera ó The Rape of Lucretia
Plainly put, Frankfurt Operaís ìThe Rape of Lucretiaî could be offered as a textbook example of just how great a performance can be when everything goes right.
Barenboim and Berlin ó beauty and brilliance
BERLIN ó Which car-rental agency was it that was once No. 2 and ìtrying harder?î