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Month: November 2010
Don Carlo, Metropolitan Opera, New York
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/6e7b86bc-f727-11df-9b06-00144feab49a.html#axzz168yfODt7
Tosca, Manitoba Opera
What some people won’t do for a standing ovation! Saturday night at the opera was a showcase of excesses.
Loft and found: have you got a Vivaldi lurking in your attic?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/tomserviceblog/2010/nov/22/vivaldi-attic-lost-manuscripts-found
Adriana Lecouvreur, Royal Opera
Two months into the current season, after a string of so-so revivals and a curiosity which deserved to be box-office dynamite but wasn’t, the Royal Opera has finally got round to a star-studded new production.
The Met’s Don Pasquale: A treat for the eyes, a feast for the ears
http://blog.cnycafemomus.com/2010/11/21/nov-13-met-simulcast-don-pasquale.aspx
The Makropulos Case in San Francisco
Just now in San Francisco Finnish soprano Karita Mattila kicked ass as Jan·?ek’s 337 year old Elina Makropulos.*
Carmen, Arizona Opera
On Saturday November 13 and Sunday November 14, 2010, Arizona Opera presented Bernard Uzan’s rather different take on Bizet’s Carmen.
Il Viaggio a Sicilia
As I strolled around the corner into Piazza Verdi, my first view of Palermo’s Teatro Massimo Vittorio Emanuele stopped me dead in my tracks and damn near took my breath away.