http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a6e6b998-360e-11df-aa43-00144feabdc0.html
Year: 2010
Eva Marton in Puccini and Strauss
At one point in her career, Eva Marton appeared poised to be the true inheritor of Birgit Nilsson’s legacy roles: Wagner and Strauss’s most dramatic heroines, as well as key Italian roles (Puccini in particular).
Wolfgang Wagner, Director of Bayreuth, Is Dead at 90
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/arts/music/23wagner.html
La Voix humaine/Herzog Blaubarts Burg, Oper der Stadt Kˆln
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/744e9b0e-369f-11df-b810-00144feabdc0.html
Villazon Triumphs in Stage Return as Love-Sick Twit
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aOY8Cj1dclng#
Il pastor fido at the Royal College of Music
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/opera/article7071692.ece
Genoveva — Schumann at UCL Opera, London
Genoveva and Lohengrin both premiered in the summer of 1850. Wagner disparaged Schumann, as he disparaged Mendelssohn (Schumann’s hero). Wagner’s opinions were influential. Genoveva has been eclipsed, saddled with a reputation for being hard to stage.
Regieoper with a twist in Dresden Ring
Yes, the complete Ring des Nibelungen currently on stage at Dresden’s Semper Opera qualifies as Regieoper, but it’s Regieoper with a twist.
Changing conductors bring color to Dresden Ring
It was a bit of intrigue that recalled the Wagners at home back in Bayreuth’s Haus Wahnfried.