http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/classicalmusic/2010/03/dmitri_hvorostovsky_sondra_rad.html
Year: 2010
House of Style — A bumpy season at the Met
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2010/03/29/100329crmu_music_ross
Angels in America, Barbican, London
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/c20d5780-3b50-11df-b622-00144feabdc0.html
Madama Butterfly, NYCO
Once again, as in L’Etoile, Mark Lamos’s staging and
Robert Wierzel’s lighting nearly steal the show in the City Opera’s
revival of Madama Butterfly.
Demanding Macatsoris sends opera singers out to the world’s stages prepared.
http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/89259677.html
A Composer Grows before his Work — The Grapes of Wrath at Carnegie Hall
Many congratulations and thanks are in order to the Collegiate Chorale for
bringing Ricky Ian Gordon’s adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath to New York audiences this week.
Christianne Stotijn at the Wigmore Hall
Unlike instrumental players, singers “are” their instrument. They aren’t machines. Performance is affected by many shifting factors, which need to be understood.
Angels in America, Eˆtvˆs at the Barbican for the BBC
Angels in America, Peter Eˆtvˆs’s opera based on the Tony Kushner plays, received its London premiere. This was very high profile. David Robertson conducted the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a performance that will be broadcast internationally, online on www.bbc.co.uk/radio3.
Harrison Birtwistle: The Minotaur
Premiered on 15 April 2008, The Minotaur is Harrison Birtwistle’s latest opera, and it stands well with the composer’s other stage work.