http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/feb/28/doctor-atomic-coliseum-john-adams
Month: February 2009
Endlich wird H‰ndel wieder wie fr¸her gespielt
http://www.welt.de/kultur/article3257471/Endlich-wird-Haendel-wieder-wie-frueher-gespielt.html
Das Rheingold, Music Center, Los Angeles
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/44dd63aa-01c6-11de-8199-000077b07658.html
Fidelio at Cadogan Hall
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/live_reviews/article5760108.ece
A restrained Flying Dutchman at the Royal Opera House, London
This Der fliegende Holl‰nder was eagerly awaited as it hasn’t been heard at the Royal Opera House, London, since 2000. With Bryn Terfel’s return to Covent Garden as the Dutchman guaranteed a full house.
Lucrezia Borgia at Munich
Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia, his 30th opera, is based on Victor Hugo’s play of the same name, and had its premiere at La Scala in 1833.
Leh·r’s Die Lustige Witwe from Semperoper Dresden
JÈrÙme Savary, director of this December 2007 Semperoper Dresden production of Leh·r’s Die Lustige Witwe, expresses a view in the booklet essay that many others will probably share: “What I like most of all about The Merry Widow is its music, which is literally bursting with colours, gyrating movements and sensuality…”
Adriana Lecouvreur at the MET
There come nights in the opera season where gesamtkunstwerke won’t do — enough of epic masterpieces and supreme lyric outpourings of the human spirit!