http://www.nysun.com/arts/burly-and-savage-but-elegant-met-orchestra/78599/
Month: May 2008
Opera Meets Animation to Tell a Chinese Tale
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/26/arts/music/26monk.html?_r=1&ref=music&oref=slogin
Die Bassariden, Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c7c2a9b2-2b41-11dd-a7fc-000077b07658.html
Eugene Onegin, Glyndebourne Festival, UK
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2c1eb0d8-28e3-11dd-96ce-000077b07658.html
Merry Widow at ENO
In these days of ‘concept’ productions, it is rare that the curtain goes up on the first act of an opera and it looks exactly as one might reasonably expect it to.
Masterpiece Masterfully Rendered in Toronto
I can still remember my first ever ìPelleas et Melisandeî in my first ever outing at San Francisco Opera during my first ever visit to that beautiful town.
MOZART: Le Nozze di Figaro ó Vienna 2001
Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro): Opera buffa in four acts, K492
A Berlin Sampler
A recent visit to Berlin’s three opera houses yielded decidedly, nay wildly varying outcomes.
Books ‘n Things
Two excellent books on opera have come to hand, providing many hours of entertaining reading. I combine notice of them with a few thoughts about composer Paul Moravecís CDs, and his forthcoming opera premiere at Santa Fe Opera in 2009.