http://www.straight.com/article-373684/vancouver/lyrical-love-aria
Year: 2011
Parsifal, La Monnaie, Brussels
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/655b7032-33a5-11e0-b1ed-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1DUYjOWKN
Don Pasquale, New York
Witty and airy as an after-dinner anecdote over biscuits and cognac, Don
Pasquale (1844) is, unlikely as it may seem, almost the last opera Donizetti
completed before his descent into the madness of tertiary syphilis.
Turandot, Florida Grand Opera
In 2010, Florida Grand Opera held a gala to honor Robert Heuer on his 25th
anniversary as general director.
Nixon in China, New York
Preparing for the Met premier of Nixon in China, I resolved to
forget—or place on hold—everything I remembered, or thought I
remembered, about the real persons who are characters in this opera,
Turandot, San Diego
The original story that formed the basis for the libretto of Puccini’s
opera Turandot told of a Mongolian princess who insisted that any
prospective husband endeavor to win a wrestling match with her.
Opera Company of Philadelphia sets ‘Romeo et Juliette’ in modern fashion world
http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20110206_Opera_Company_of_Philadelphia_sets__Romeo_et_Juliette__in_modern_fashion_world.html
The Sunday Conversation: Dmitri Hvorostovsky
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-conversation-20110206,0,3161944.story
Magdalena Kozen·, Wigmore Hall
It’s a rare recital that can be at one and the same time intensely
intimate and extravagantly exuberant, but that’s just what Magdalena
Kozen· and the eight-piece Austrian ensemble Private Musicke achieved in this
fascinating and exhilarating concert, which brought a thrill of passion,
spontaneity and excitement to the usually more restrained and rarified
atmosphere of the Wigmore Hall.