Tosca: A melodrama in three acts.
Month: November 2008
The Pearl Fishers at Lyric Opera of Chicago
The current revival of Georges Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers at Lyric Opera of Chicago (seen 25 October) brings together an exceptionally strong cast.
Houston brushes up its Shakespeare
In 1830, three years after the death of Beethoven and two after Schubert’s untimely demise, Berlioz, 27, dazzled the world with his phantasmagoric — perhaps drug-inspired — Symphonie fantastique.
It’s time for the arts to get creative — about money
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-notebook7-2008nov07,0,4984416.story
The Rape of Lucretia at Kings Place
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/live_reviews/article5090195.ece
Bernstein in Beijing: China’s Classical Music Explosion
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1855684,00.html
Les Indes galantes, Barbican, London
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9edecc22-ab4f-11dd-b9e1-000077b07658.html
Canadian Opera Company Trumpets its Success
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20081105.COC05/TPStory/Entertainment
Boris Godunov at San Francisco Opera
As performed just now by the San Francisco Opera Mussorgsky’s initial (1869), seven scene version of Boris Godunov revealed itself a finished masterpiece.