http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/opera-singers-lost-voice-returns-devastating-diagnosis/story?id=9364014
Month: December 2009
Ernani: The Case for Early Verdi at Lyric Opera of Chicago
Productions of Giuseppe Verdi’s early opera Ernani have become relatively infrequent primarily because of the difficulties of casting the work requiring four demanding roles.
Sergei Leiferkus at Wigmore Hall
Exchanging the stage of The Royal Opera House — where he is currently
performing the role of His Highness in Tchaikovsky’s fairy-tale opera,
The Tsarina’s Slippers —
Frankfurt’s ‘Medium’ Rarities
Encountering Frankfurt Opera’s staging of Leoni’s L’Oracolo and Puccini’s Le Villi, I was reminded of that old saw about the German weather.
Amsterdam: Minnie, Get Your Gun
It is hard to know where to start to adequately laud Netherlands Opera’s witty new La Fanciulla del West.
PÈnÈlope in Manhattan
The one thing certain about the judgment of history is that history will change its mind.
An Interview with John Fitz Rogers
John Fitz Rogers is presently an associate professor of composition at the University of South Carolina School of Music.
Z¸rich’s Riveting ‘Corsaro’
Il Corsaro, the Verdi rarity currently on display at Z¸rich Opera, is the best of both possible worlds.
Notes of Ancient Greece in a Seldom-Seen Work
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/arts/music/11faure.html