http://likelyimpossibilities.blogspot.com/2013/10/of-chaste-divas-and-broken-legato.html
Year: 2013
Grumbles over Scala’s New MD Designate, Mutiny on the High Cs
http://operachic.typepad.com/opera_chic/2013/10/grumbles-over-scalas-new-md-designate-mutiny-on-the-high-cs-.html
Armide, Amsterdam
There is a cornucopia of ideas on display in Gluck’s Armide at Amsterdam’s Het Muziektheater, but sadly only a few of them seemed to serve the piece.
London’s Vespers Ring the Right Bells
Even before it opened, Royal Opera’s Les vÍpres siciliennes was the must-see production of the season.
Verdi’s Otello at Lyric Opera of Chicago
Lyric Opera of Chicago has opened the season with a revival of its 2001 production of Giuseppe Verdi’s Otello.
Angel Blue, Wigmore Hall
Having impressed UK audiences in La Boheme (for ENO) and American Lulu (for the Opera Group/Scottish Opera),
Madame Butterfly at ENO
First seen in 2005, and since feted in London (several times), New York and Lithuania, Anthony Minghella’s cinematic production of Madame Butterfly remains a breath-taking visual banquet.