http://blog.cnycafemomus.com/2010/10/28/october-23-met-simulcast-boris-godunov.aspx
Year: 2010
Kafka at the Opera: Bartlett Sher’s Production of Hoffmann at the Met
We all come to the opera for different things. To escape, to elevate, to laugh, to cry, or perhaps because someone else bought the tickets.
Ladies first: Muhly’s “Dark Sisters” precedes “Two Boys” as US opera debut
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-classical-beat/2010/10/ladies_first_muhlys_dark_siste.html
Piotr Beczala: RomÈo et Juliette, Royal Opera
Charles Gounod’s RomÈo et Juliette is almost more musical than opera. Everyone knows the story, and it would be hard to compete with Shakespeare. Gounod wisely focused on music, rather than drama.
Boris Godunov, Metropolitan Opera
The last curtain call at the opera usually goes to the title character, the star of the work just performed. At the end of the Met’s new Boris Godunov, the calls begin with a solo call for the title character, RenÈ Pape as Boris, and conclude with one for the Metropolitan Opera Chorus all by themselves.
Gilbert and Sullivan opens Arizona Opera
On 16 October 2010 in Tucson, Arizona Opera opened it’s 2010-2011
season with an operetta, The Pirates of Penzance, by W. S. Gilbert and
Arthur Sullivan.
Jerry Springer, The Opera in San Francisco
The fall opera season in San Francisco has been dealt a wild card — Jerry Springer, The Opera! Not exactly material for SF’s august opera company . . .
The Metropolitan Opera Gala 1991
The 50th anniversary of the Metropolitan Opera at the Lincoln Center is just a few years away, so, with something less than dispatch, a DVD of the 25th anniversary Gala appears.