http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090427.APOPPEA27ART1617/TPStory/Entertainment
Year: 2009
Glyndebourne’s first ever semi-opera
http://www.crawleyobserver.co.uk/entertainment/Glyndebournes-first-ever-semiopera.5209530.jp
Suffering Br¸nnhilde, Her Betrayers and an Unexpected Hero
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/arts/music/27gott.html?ref=music
In Brooding Lieder, Gentleness and Drama
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/arts/music/27pape.html?ref=music
Opera for the Common Man
http://www.flatheadbeacon.com/articles/article/opera_for_the_common_man/9816/
Wolf-Ferrari: La vedova scaltra (“The Cunning Widow”).
One of the five operas Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876-1948) based on plays by Carlo Goldoni, La vedova scaltra (1748) is a comedy about a widow’s decision to use deception to choose among her suitors.
Don Giovanni at the MET with Peter Mattei
I returned to Don Giovanni firstly because I had never heard Peter Mattei sing, and friends had called him the greatest Don G since Siepi.
Walter Braunfels’s Die Vˆgel at Los Angeles Opera
The Recovered Voices series at Los Angeles Opera, in its second season, springs from James Conlon’s fascination and love for the operas of composers whose lives and/or careers came to an end under the Nazi regime.
Lost portrait of Handel’s librettist Paolo Rolli resurfaces in Todi, Italy
Paolo Antonio Rolli (Rome, 13 June 1687 — Todi, 20 March 1765) arguably ranks among the top-three Italian librettists of the 18th century, next to Metastasio and — later — Da Ponte.