http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/tomserviceblog/2010/dec/01/composers-manuscript-donations-sothebys-sale
Year: 2010
Philip Glass: Itaipu and Three Songs for choir a cappella
Philip Glass has achieved a level of success that places him in a very select group of composers of serious music.
Garsington Opera’s Glorious New Setting Unveiled With The Magic Flute
http://www.operatoday.com/documents/GarsingtonPress_release__season_2011.pdf
Rigoletto, Opera Australia
Not revived too frequently this 1991 production by Elijah Moshinsky updates the story to the 1960s and the films of Federico Fellini inspire the sets and costumes.
Le nozze di Figaro, Opera Australia
Neil Armfield’s insightful staging of Le nozze di Figaro is making a welcome return in the lead-up to his direction of the Ring Cycle for the Wagner bi-centenary 2013 (the first complete cycle staged in Melbourne in a century).
Get with the contemporary classical programme? We already have
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/tomserviceblog/2010/nov/29/modern-classical-music-alex-ross
Is China poised to become next opera superpower?
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/897896–is-china-poised-to-become-next-opera-superpower
Messiah at Community of Christ Auditorium, Kansas City
http://www.kansascity.com/2010/11/28/2477093/review-messiah-at-community-of.html
What would Mozart say? Storm over new Don Giovanni opera showing gang rape by men wearing Jesus Christ T-shirts
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1333833/New-Don-Giovanni-production-shows-gang-rape-men-wearing-Jesus-Christ-t-shirts.html#