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Month: November 2008
Mortier Stiffs City Opera; Met Drops a Bomb, Welcomes Faust
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=axVkBoHbwRc4&refer=home
WNO’s ‘Carmen’: Its Charms Are All Too Familiar
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/09/AR2008110902093.html
Between Hell and Heaven, a World of Morphing Imagery
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/arts/music/10faus.html?ref=arts
That ‘Lulu’ that you do so well
http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/music/classical/1269966,CST-FTR-lyric10web.article
Susan Bullock on how Elektra took her through hell and high Cs
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/opera/article5092244.ece
L’elisir d’amore in San Francisco
There are remnants of snobbery in San Francisco that are happiest when San Francisco Opera
associates itself with the likes of Vienna State Opera and Covent Garden, and left positively
frightened at the idea of a production from Opera Colorado/Fort Worth Opera/et al. on the War
Memorial Opera House stage.
Muti’s La Traviata
EMI owns this recording, so if pride dictates they repackage it in the “Great Recordings of the Century” series, a dissenter shouldn’t moralize.
Ernani and I Capuletti e I Montecchi on Dynamic DVD
Both these performances come from mid-2005. Teatro Regio di Parma presented the Ernani in May of that year; August saw I Capuletti e I Montecchi on stage at the Festival della Valle d’Itria di Martina Franca.
Andrew Lloyd Webber — A Classical Tribute
Countless must be the number of true opera fans who have heard well-meaning acquaintances say, “Oh I just love opera! Especially Phantom of the Opera.”