http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/875b4a84-47df-11df-b998-00144feab49a.html
Month: April 2010
Scottish Opera – The Adventures of Mr Broucek
http://news.scotsman.com/features/Music-review-Scottish-Opera-.6217140.jp
Ailish Tynan, Wigmore Hall
Thoughtfully devised by Iain Burnside, this recital juxtaposed ballad with
art song, pastoral with love lyric, dark with light, mournful with carefree. An
imaginative sequence of songs, woven together according to linking themes,
confirmed that Ireland truly is a ‘land of song’.
Partenope, NYCO
One of the City Opera’s happiest ventures over the years has been their Handel series.
Highs and lows of the Salzburg Easter festival
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/opera/article7092129.ece
Franz Schreker’s ‘The Stigmatized’ at Los Angeles Opera
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/04/franz-schrekers-the-stigmatized-at-los-angeles-opera.html
Covert resistance to Hitler — Hartmann’s Simplicius Simplicissimus
An anti-facist, anti-war opera written in Germany while the Nazis were in power? K A Hartmann’s Des Simplicius Simplicissimus Jugend was a brave act of conscience, even though the opera wasn’t publicly performed until 1948.