The opening night of the new season at Teatro alla Scala Milan is a gala event, the most glamorous in the entire Italian opera year.
Year: 2010
Magic Flute, Phoenix
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Emmanuel Schikaneder had known each other for some time before they wrote The Magic Flute.
Cecilia Bartoli at the Barbican Centre, London
Cecilia Bartoli is something of a phenomenon, capable of attracting an enthusiastic capacity crowd.
Opera in cinemas takes off – and joins the 3D revolution
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/dec/11/opera-cinemas-3d-bizet-carmen
Eva-Maria Westbroek: The enthralling soprano
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/opera/8189919/Eva-Maria-Westbroek-The-enthralling-soprano.html
Puccini’s Western Seeks Lyrical Gold
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/08/arts/music/08west.html?_r=1&ref=music
A night with ‘Boheme’ and thoughts of Baltimore’s operatic future
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/classicalmusic/2010/12/a_night_with_boheme_and_though.html
Virginia Opera’s ‘Cosi Fan Tutte’: Frivolity, after months of drama
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/05/AR2010120503932.html
Rodney Waschka — An Interview
Rodney Waschka is a professor at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, where his multifarious activities are fundamental to the presence of contemporary music in the state.
RenÈe Fleming Named By Lyric Opera Of Chicago First Ever Creative Consultant
December 9, 2010 CHICAGO – The Board of Directors of Lyric Opera of
Chicago announced today that soprano REN…E FLEMING has been named Creative
Consultant, a first in this company’s history.