The noted operatic impresario and stage director, Lotfi Mansouri, with the professional help of writer Donald Arthur, has issued his memoirs under the title Lotfi Mansouri: An Operatic Journey.
Year: 2010
Prom 21 — Berlioz and Wagner
Period instruments and nineteenth-century grand opera are seldom found on the same stage — or even the same sentence — but as adventurous practitioners increasingly experiment in the repertoire of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, it’s a sight and sound that will inevitably become more familiar.
Montezuma, Potsdam Music Festival
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e7433bde-a09d-11df-a669-00144feabdc0.html
Glimmerglass’s Tosca: an economy of means, an extravagance of voice
http://blog.cnycafemomus.com/2010/08/06/august-3-glimmerglass-opera-tosca.aspx
Der Ferne Klang, Bard College
Franz Schreker, born in 1878, was a youth in the age in which psychoanalysis
first bloomed. In music, far from coincidentally, it was the post-Wagnerian era
when western tonality had been liberated from traditional rules but was
uncertain which new path to take.
The Rake’s Progress: when Hockney met Hogarth
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/aug/02/rakes-progress-cox-hockney-glyndebourne/print
Dionysos, Haus f¸r Mozart, Salzburg
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/45783b40-9e4c-11df-a5a4-00144feab49a.html
Maria di Rohan at Caramoor
Maria di Rohan was Donizetti’s penultimate opera, composed in
Italian for Vienna in 1843, with revisions to appeal to the taste of Paris and
Milan following.
Santa Fe’s Mixed Dreams
Fairy Tales are often short on character, motivation and development. The stock figures are either good or bad, they are usually archetypal, and stand not only for themselves but larger dimensions of humanity.
George Benjamin: Into the Little Hill, Linbury, London
George Benjamin is the leading British composer of his generation. Into the Little Hill premiered in 2006, has been acclaimed a masterpiece.