http://www.nysun.com/arts/pape-prepares-new-york
Month: May 2008
New York opera fans warily await arrival of GÈrard Mortier
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/13/arts/mortier.php
STRAUSS: Opernszenen | Scenes of Operas.
Recorded between 1938 and 1942, the excerpts from performances of Der Rosenkavalier, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Arabella, and Daphne at the Dresden Staatsoper are all conducted by Karl Bˆhm.
Gotham Chamber Opera: Ariadne Unhinged
The Gotham Chamber Opera has been delighting opera fans on the Lower East Side for seven years now, one small audience at a time.
Les Troyens in Boston
Thirty-six years after Sarah Caldwell and the Opera Company of Boston presented the first complete staged performances in the United States, Hector Berliozí Les Troyens returned to Boston in triumph in a series of concert performances presented by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the baton of James Levine to close the BSOís 2007-2008 season.
Ponnelle Clemenza remains a masterpiece
Opera companies should practice historic preservation, keeping certain productions forever in the repertory because of their quality and aesthetic value.
Nono’s Prometeo at Royal Festival Hall
Prometeo is so radically different that itís almost incomprehensible heard from preconceived assumptions of what music ìoughtî to be.
On Venetian Opera: a new edition of Monteverdi’s Ritorno, and Eleanor Selfridge-Field on Time and Opera in Venice.
Claudio Monteverdi. Il Ritorno díUlisse in patria. Edited by Rinaldo Alessandrini. Urtext. Kassel: B‰renreiter, 2007. BA 8791. A vocal score is available as 8791a.
John Brown lives again in Kansas City
John Brown might have been aímouldering in his grave since he was hanged in 1859, but he was resurrected ó in body and spirit ó on May 3, when the Lyric Opera of Kansas City staged the world premiere of Kirke Mechemís John Brown.
MOZART: Don Giovanni ó Salzburg 2002
Il dissoluto punito ossia il Don Giovanni (K. 527): Drama giocoso in two acts