http://www.theage.com.au/national/alarm-over-music-academy-spreads-20081117-6946.html
Month: November 2008
‘Porgy’ at last
http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/music/classical/1282713,CST-FTR-porgy17.article
Opera singing a new tune
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/music/34425449.html?elr=KArksD:aDyaEP:kD:aUnOiP3UiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU
‘Figaro’ at Music Hall one of best Dallas Opera productions in memory
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/stories/111608dnlivfigaro.1b66db825.html
The Greek Passion, Zurich Opera
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/9e649fc6-b0de-11dd-8915-0000779fd18c,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2F9e649fc6-b0de-11dd-8915-0000779fd18c.html&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Farts%2Fmusic
La Traviata at the MET
When La Traviata had its first performance, in Venice in 1853, it was a scandal.
Lucrezia Borgia at the Washington National Opera
After a somewhat shaky start to the season, as my recently posted review of La traviata attests, Washington National Opera has added considerable luster to its roster this November with the infusion of spectacle and star power in two new productions.
Wozzeck, Munich
Wozzeck stands ankle deep in water on the flooded stage of the Bavarian State Opera, above him hovers a huge, movable box – the dingy apartment he shares with Marie and their adolescent bastard – and he is surrounded by a freak-show worthy of a George Groszian nightmare and worse.