http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/sep/14/karita-mattila-review
Month: September 2010
Royal Opera Japan tour diary: The second understudy steals the show
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/sep/14/royal-opera-japan-tour-diary
The Rake’s Progress at ThÈ‚tre Royal de la Monnaie
At some point it became a matter of honor for elite composers to have at least one go at a full length opera.
Bayreuth’s Lohengrin: A ‘Rat’-ical Re-‘tail’-ing
It doesn’t take long for the summer’s new Lohengrin to reveal its entire bag of tricks as a large chorus of rats (yes, the chorus-as-rodents) scurries on at curtain-rise into the white science laboratory setting.
San Francisco Opera’s ‘Aida’
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/09/12/DDJ31FCCFL.DTL
Bruce Adolphe: An Interview
Bruce Adolphe, born and raised in the New York area, a student of
composition at Juilliard in the sixties and seventies, has an impressive body
of work commissioned by artists known on every continent, and was chosen by the
Music Library Association to write a piece for brass (Triskelion)
marking the sixtieth anniversary of the Association, premiered by the American
Brass Quintet at the national meeting in Indianapolis in February, 1991.
CosÏ fan tutte, Royal Opera House
Everyone loves Mozart. The Royal Opera House’s 2010-2011 season began with CosÏ fan tutte, and simultaneous live international broadcast.
Julius Rˆntgen: Aus Goethes Faust.
The release of Rˆntgen’s Faust setting on CPO makes available a recording of yet another composer’s perspective on Goethe’s famous dramatic poem.
Kate Lindsey: An Interview
This season Santa Fe Opera offered new productions that ranged from standard
repertoire (Madame Butterfly and The Magic Flute) to a world
premiere (Lewis Spratlan’s Life is a Dream) with The Tales
of Hoffmann and Albert Herring falling somewhere amidst.