David Daniels fights to remove countertenor singing from the ‘curiosity’ category

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/chi-0326-classical-jvrmar26,0,227951.story

The Jan·cek affair

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article5972796.ece?&EMC-Bltn=KIXGEA

Cleveland Orchestra, Zurich Opera make a fine Marriage of Figaro’

http://www.cleveland.com/music/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-0/123797002017990.xml&coll=2

Orlando Opera faces the music: Shortfall could bring down the curtains

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orl-asec-economy-orlando-opera-032409,0,7488546.story

Moving performance

http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/mar/22/lz1c22opera184125-moving-performance/

Vivaldi’s ‘Motezuma,’ lost, found, restored, re-imagined

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-ca-motezuma22-2009mar22,0,6460594.story

Genocidal Days

http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2009/mar/18/genocidal-days/

Jenůfa — English National Opera, London Coliseum

Jan·?ek enthusiasts in London have been spoiled this month: opening the day before English Touring Opera’s Katya Kabanova, David Alden’s staging of Jenůfa made a welcome return to the Coliseum following its original double Olivier Award-winning run in 2006.

Paul Robeson: The Complete EMI Sessions 1928-1939

Seven discs, of 170 tracks, amounting to over eight hours of music – this EMI set somehow manages to be both voluminous and narrow in its portrait of Paul Robeson.

Venice’s Variable “War Requiem”

I had been looking forward to it for weeks — really, for years.