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Month: December 2008
Porgy through a glass lightly
It was, of course, coincidence. When the Chicago Lyric Opera scheduled George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess for the current season, not even the preludes to the 2008 presidential election had begun.
Munich’s Christmas Treasures: Massenet and Handel
Not all of Munich’s holiday delights are to be found at the just-opened annual Christmas Market filling the Marienplatz and environs.
Carmen at the Washington National Opera
From the director’s point of view, there are two ways to approach staging an opera.
Verdi’s Aida at La Scala
Can this truly be the production of Verdi’s Aida that earned world-wide headlines in December 2007?
GIORDANO: Marcella
Alberto Cant˘’s booklet essay for the Dynamic release of Umberto Giordano’s rare one-act opera Marcella quotes a review from the day after the 1907 premiere, which indicates that the premiere’s audience’s expectations of “greater originality of melodic invention” went unmet.