http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/arts/music/26fink.html?ref=music
Month: January 2010
Kerry Andrew — An Interview
Kerry Andrew is a young British composer who seems to have her finger in an astounding number of pies, from modern sacred choral music to alt-folk, and including vocal chamber ensemble music and jazz. We talked via Skype on Jan. 12, 2010.
War and Peace at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/opera/article7000726.ece
Dido and Aeneas by Les Arts Florissants
We all wish Henry Purcell had written a few more operas like Dido and
Aeneas — simple to cast, simple to stage, offering endless
possibilities for either reserved or outrageous treatment, attractive to every
sort of audience.
Opera review: Long Beach Opera stages ‘Good Soldier Schweik’
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/01/long-beach-opera-stages-good-soldier-schweik.html
Fischer, NSO mine the beauty in ‘Das Lied von der Erde’
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/22/AR2010012200018.html?nav=emailpage
Il Mondo della Luna (The World on the Moon)
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, around 1777, the Empress Maria
Theresa used to visit Prince Esterhazy’s summer palace at Esterh‡za,
where there was an opera house fully equipped with stage machinery, leading
singers, an orchestra, and a guy named Joseph Haydn to compose on cue.
Respighi — Works for solo voice and orchestra
While Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) is best known to modern audiences for his colorful programmatic works associated with Italian locations, his vocal music is also engaging.
Netrebko and Hvorostovsky, Royal Festival Hall, London
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/f63624a0-06b8-11df-b426-00144feabdc0.html
Monteverdi, 1610: Vespers to Usher in the Baroque
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/arts/music/22vespers.html?ref=music