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…”
Year: 2009
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!
Frankfurt: Thinking Inside the Box
My heart didn’t exactly leap in joyful anticipation as I entered the Frankfurt Opera and saw the Arabella pre-set on stage: a big, shallow, white box.
No Home for Heroes at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna — Pierre Audi’s new production of Handel’s Partenope.
Handel operas are like London buses — you wait for ages and then 3 come along together.
Massenet’s Don Quichotte at San Diego Opera
Ferrucio Furlanetto apparently loves the temperate climes of San Diego in California’s equivalent of late winter.
Strong ‘Pagliacci’ lifts uneven double bill at Lyric Opera
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/chi-0216-lyric-cavalleria-ovnfeb16,0,2215908.story
From a vault in Paris: The sound of opera in 1907
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/16/arts/opera.php
Florida Grand Opera parts ways with music director
http://www.miamiherald.com/living/story/902663.html