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Month: December 2009
Le Nozze di Figaro at the MET
The best news about the Met’s eleven-year-old Jonathan Miller production of Le Nozze di Figaro is that it has been restaged by Gregory Keller, more tautly spun, many elegant jokes…
Imaginative New Opera to Debut in New York
http://www.digitalcity.com/2009/12/03/imaginative-new-opera-to-debut-in-new-york/
New Schoenberg score stolen in Hungary
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gaq9zxASUMIzEfoMUOhpixgGND-Q
OperaUpClose: Puccini in the pub
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/dec/03/operaupclose-puccini-pub
Otello in San Francisco
Sir Peter Hall created this production of Otello at Chicago Lyric Opera in 2001.
No need to rise for this Hallelujah Chorus
ENO did not exactly ‘import a choir of Heathens’ to encourage the Shaws of this world to ‘hasten’ to its version of ‘Messiah’ ‘if only to witness the delight of…