The Los Angeles Opera Company’s charmingly understated new production
of CosÏ fan tutte will please your eyes and delight your ears, but its story might grieve your romantic soul.
Month: October 2011
CosÏ fan tutte, Los Angeles
Carmen, Philadelphia
There are two ways to sing the role of Carmen: as a “grand opera” heroine and as a character from opÈra-comique.
English National Opera’s The Marriage of Figaro – video
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2011/oct/06/english-national-opera-marriage-figaro-video?newsfeed=true
Menotti in German
As long as one keeps in mind that historical value is not the same as aesthetic quality, this DVD of early 1960’s live German TV performances of two short Gian Carlo Menotti operas makes for fascinating viewing.
The Inaugural Cambridge Handel Festival: a rosy dawn?
The haughty beauties that are the ancient colleges of Cambridge were definitely feeling the heat this past weekend, and not even the cooling streams of the Cam and its tributaries could assuage the heat of an Indian summer in the Fens of Eastern England.
Controversy over Duluth Festival Opera’s “Pocahontas” overflows to tears and curses in Burnsville
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/arts/controversy-over-pocahontas-woman-two-worlds-duluth-festival-opera
Eugene Onegin, Los Angeles
Kudos to the Los Angeles Opera Company for expanding its heretofore limited
Russian repertoire and opening its 26th season with Tchaikovsky’s
Eugene Onegin. The romantic work based on the novel in verse of the
same name by Alexander Pushkin, is likely everyone’s favorite
Tchaikovsky opera.
Ten Years of Celebrating Song: Oxford Lieder Festival 2011
In just ten years, the Oxford Lieder Festival has become Britain’s most important Lieder festival, with an international following.