On this 1955 recording of Dvo?·k’s folk-tale based comic romp Kate and the Devil, conductor Zden?k Chalaba offers a lighter, faster approach than that heard on the modern studio version Supraphon released in 1981, under conductor Ji?Ì Pinkas.
Year: 2009
Singer Storms Off
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/26/arts/music/26arts-SINGERSTORMS_BRF.html?_r=1&ref=music
The Gambler, OpÈra de Lyon, France
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/4700a906-e972-11dd-9535-0000779fd2ac.html
No Tears in Texas for Departed Opera Chief Steel
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601112&sid=aHfKfBWbsw_Q&refer=muse#
The Beggar’s Opera, Linbury Theatre, London
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/2af971d0-e89f-11dd-a4d0-0000779fd2ac.html
Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra by NYCO
The two performances of Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra given at Carnegie Hall — the New York City Opera’s only performances this year while the State Theater is in rehab and the company is in flux — may or may not prove to be swan song of New York’s gallant number two company, whose succession of identity crises have been so fascinating to observe — and hear — over the decades.
Verdi Requiem: When in Rome . . .
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/opera/article5525243.ece
Booming singer having a blast
http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20090118_Booming_singer_having_a_blast.html