Haydn’s L’isola disabitata is ideally suited to the modern taste for chamber opera. This is Haydn for those who think they don’t like his operas or even baroque form.
Year: 2010
From day one, The Marriage Of Figaro was a match made in heaven
http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/music-features/from-day-one-the-marriage-of-figaro-was-a-match-made-in-heaven-1.1065183
Thomas Hampson, baritone and Living Legend, exhilarates with American songs
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/29/AR2010102906216.html
Cervantino stages rare Graun opera — The Mexican national opera?
Clearly, there isn’t one. Yet, Carl Heinrich Graun’s 1755
rarely-performed Montezuma is of special importance in a country
celebrating 200 years of Independence from Spanish rule and 100 years since the
Revolution that ultimately toppled dictator Porfirio DÌaz.
The Marriage of Figaro, Theatre Royal, Glasgow
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/oct/31/marriage-of-figaro-scottish-opera-review
Lyric Opera tackles tragic ‘Norma’
http://www.kansascity.com/2010/10/30/2366913/lyric-opera-tackles-tragic-norma.html
A Quiet Place, New York City Opera, New York
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/820eb3c6-e2e0-11df-9735-00144feabdc0.html
Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder, Preludes and Overtures
A great vintage Mercury album of Antal Dorati conducting Wagner overtures and preludes featured as a cover a close-up of a medieval chalice, undoubtedly meant to reference the Parsifal excerpt on the enclosed disc.