http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-lyric-ovn-0908sep08,0,3044829.story
Month: September 2008
The power and the glory of Messiaen’s only opera
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/09/the_power_and_the_glory_of_mes.html
Opera in the Park enters its 35th year
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/07/DDHG12PSEI.DTL
Antonio Pappano: the unstoppable maestro
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/09/08/bmpappano108.xml
Puccini With a Sprinkling of Woody Allen Whimsy
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/arts/music/08trit.html
Prom 68 ó Russian Fairy Tales from Rimsky-Korsakov and Stravinsky
Kashchey is a gnarled old ogre who imprisons a beautiful young princess in his gloomy underworld. It’s classic psychodrama. Kashchey has supernatural powers, so how can the Princess be saved ?
WAGNER: Tristan und Isolde
I’ve rarely seen a performance of Tristan und Isolde where I was quite so conscious of the singers’ teeth.
The Coronation of Poppea
The startup of a new opera company is always cause for cheering; it is getting harder and harder (that is, more and more expensive) to do, especially in New York.
Prom 64 ó Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in Messiaen’s Turang‚lÏla-symphonie
Because Turang‚lÏla is such a panorama, taking in Hollywood, Hindus and Peruvians, Wagner and Gurrelieder, it’s easy to assume it’s all surface Technicolor.
Opera from the Greek
Perhaps it will be enough to tell you that I wasnít halfway through this book before I searched the web for a copy of Professor Ewansís study of Wagner and Aeschylusís Oresteia, and ordered it forthwith: It has to be good.