The Wigmore Hall Dvo?·k series culminated in a concert by Bernarda Fink and Roger Vignoles.
Year: 2012
Armide, Opera Atelier
I have to rethink my week, because somehow I have to get to see Opera Atelier’s production of Jean-Baptiste Lully’s Armide again.
Il Sogno di Scipione
It’s unclear whether Mozart composed this highly undramatic “dramatic action” when he was fifteen, for his kindly master Prince-Archbishop von Schrettenbach of Salzburg, or the following year for the newly-elected successor, Prince-Archbishop Colloredo, who, soon afterwards, had the young man literally kicked out of his service.
Xu Zhong Tapped by Teatro Massimo Bellini
http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/04/chinese_conduct.php
Chinese Conductor to Lead Italian Opera
The Chinese conductor and pianist Xu Zhong will be the new artistic director
of an Italian opera house, the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania.
Mishap at the Musikfreunde
Tenor Johan Botha had just started carving his steak when his phone rang. A
director of Vienna’s Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde was on the line with an
emergency request.
The Dream of Gerontius, Barbican Hall
Edward Elgar was given a copy of Cardinal Newman’s ‘The Dream of Gerontius’ — a 900-line poem depicting the journey of an old man’s soul after death — as a wedding present in 1889.
Cologne Opera to Cancel Next Season?
On Tuesday evening, Cologne Opera’s director indicated he was planning to cancel the next season, 2012-2013.