‘Requiescant in pace. Amen.’
Author: Gary Hoffman
Threepenny Opera, Brooklyn
Should I wait until the end of this review to tell you how much fun, how much of a theatrical whoopee cushion Robert Wilson’s production of Die Dreigroschenoper has been at BAM last week?
Simon Rattle’s Mahler 9
Recorded between 24 and 27 October 2008 at the Philhamonie in Berlin, this release offers the dynamism of a concert performance with the sound quality associated with EMI’s fine recordings.
Mahler 8, Royal Festival Hall
Following Lorin Maazel’s lifeless first movement from Mahler’s Tenth Symphony
CosÏ fan tutte, Los Angeles
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.
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
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
Wes Blomster 1929-2011
It is with great sadness to report that Wes Blomster has passed on.