The fourteen year old Rossini composed his first opera Demetrio e Polibio in 1806 though it was not performed for another six years.
Month: August 2010
Edinburgh Festival 2010: Susan Bullock on playing Minnie in La fanciulla del West
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/edinburgh-festival/7959712/Edinburgh-Festival-2010-Susan-Bullock-on-playing-Minnie-in-La-fanciulla-del-West.html
Spratlan’s arid, pretentious “Dream” proves dated and deadly in belated world premiere
http://theclassicalreview.com/2010/08/spratlan%E2%80%99s-arid-pretentious-%E2%80%9Cdream%E2%80%9D-proves-dated-and-deadly-in-belated-world-premiere/
A Rarely Heard Mozart Cantata Completes a Wide-Ranging Festival
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/arts/music/23mozart.html?_r=1&ref=music
A Response To Philip Kennicott’s “Ring Ideal”
http://www.soundsandfury.com/soundsandfury/2010/08/a-response-to-philip-kennicott.html
Opera Australia in harmony again
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/opera/opera-australia-in-harmony-again-20100819-12ry6.html
New book, ‘Opera for All Seasons,’ depicts history of Indiana University Opera Theater
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/web/page/normal/15249.html
Tristan und Isolde, Bayreuth 2009
As the prelude plays, we see circles of fluorescent light moving slowly in uncertain black space. Are we seeing flights of flying saucers, as in Close Encounters of the Third Kind?