http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/music-obituaries/6629452/Elisabeth-Soderstrom.html
Year: 2009
The Tsarina’s Slippers, Royal Opera House, London
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/30a87f82-d77c-11de-b578-00144feabdc0.html
Lorin Maazel conducts Verdi and Puccini at La Scala
In the mid-1980s (just before the Riccardo Muti era began), Lorin Maazel often ruled the conductor’s roost at La Scala.
From the House of the Dead at the MET
Leoš Jan·ček’s From the House of the Dead is a
very odd duck to find on the stage of a grand opera house.
Die Rheinnixen by New Sussex Opera
London has long been spoiled in the operatic rarity department, thanks to companies like Opera Rara, Chelsea Opera Group and University College Opera populating various areas of the Venn diagram that is obscure repertoire.
John Adams is feeling festive
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-john-adams15-2009nov15,0,224344.story
ROSSINI: Otello — Bad Wildbad 2008
Otello, ossia Il moro di Venezia (‘Othello, or The Moor of Venice’): Dramma in three acts.
You want to know what’s wrong with the Met?
http://www.scena.org/columns/lebrecht/091113-NL-MET.html
Hindemith’s Das Marienleben — Soile Isokoski
Hindemith’s Das Marienleben has a formidable reputation, but is rarely heard. Soile Isokoski could change all that. This cycle is a tour de force, but tours de force need singers capable of achieving them.