Elina Garanča conceals her gleaming gold tresses beneath a curly black wig to sing Carmen.
Year: 2010
La Fille du RÈgiment in Montpellier
The OpÈra National de Montpellier sometimes rises to artistic heights, and even when it fails its attempts are often interesting.
A Space Opera in a Proper Galaxy
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/arts/music/17mondo.html?ref=music&pagewanted=print
Immolazione, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/500277a2-012f-11df-8c54-00144feabdc0.html
Collection of Italian Opera Libretti Now Accessible at Harry Ransom Center
http://www.operatoday.com/content/2010/01/collection_of_i.php
Quality opera just round the corner
Well into the 1960s, ‘provincial theaters’ were the backbone of Italy’s operatic culture.
An interview with Hilary Hahn
American violinist Hilary Hahn has entered her fourth decade, having turned
thirty last year, and for her eleventh disc she takes on a collaborative role,
as obbligatist in a program of Bach cantata arias with soprano Christine
Sch‰fer and baritone Matthias Goerne, accompanied by the M¸nchener
Kammerorchester under the direction of Alexander Liebreich.
An Interview with Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon
Composer Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon is presently on the faculty of the Eastman
School of Music in Rochester, New York. He grew up in Guadalajara, Mexico,
where he and colleague Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez played in a rock and roll band
together.
Collection of Italian Opera Libretti Now Accessible at Harry Ransom Center
AUSTIN, Texas — A major collection of Italian opera libretti is now
accessible through an online database at the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities
research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin.