http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/a31d502c-05eb-11df-8c97-00144feabdc0.html
Month: January 2010
For Verdi, Masquerading as a Baritone
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/arts/music/20simon.html?ref=music
Simon Boccanegra, Metropolitan Opera, New York
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/379e6866-051b-11df-a85e-00144feabdc0.html
Operatic Italian
Robert Stuart Thomson’s Italian language learning text, Operatic Italian, promises to become an invaluable textbook for aspiring operatic singers, voice teachers, coaches and conductors.
La Boheme at the Grand, Leeds
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/opera/article6992715.ece
Stiffelio at the MET
Stiffelio was composed just after Luisa Miller — an opera that has had little trouble holding its own in the repertory — and just before the magic trio of Rigoletto, Trovatore and Traviata, the first Verdi operas to take their immediate place on the stages of the world and hold them without a break from that day to this.
Phaedra at the Barbican
Most musical of mourners, weep anew!
Not all to that bright station dared to climb
And happier they their happiness who knew
Whose tapers yet burn through that night of time
Winter Opera focuses on singing in ‘Werther’
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/entertainment/reviews.nsf/stage/story/41E90990B562840B862576AF005D8003?OpenDocument
‘Il Trovatore’ casts show convoluted plot’s versatility
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/entertainment/2010825923_opera19.html