Before a single track has been heard, Jordi Savall’s The Forgotten Kingdom impresses with its scale: a three-CD set packaged in a lavish, bound book that contains fifty dense pages of English commentary by nine different authors; adding the multiple translations, beautiful illustrations, and song texts, the book itself luxuriantly sprawls over 500 pages.
Author: Gary Hoffman
Ian Bostridge, Wigmore Hall
“Music, music for a while/ Shall all your cares beguile,” vowed Ian Bostridge at the opening of this recital with his regular accompanist, Julius Drake.
James Bowman, The Last London Recital
It’s easy to slip into platitudes when eulogising the last London
recital performance of a singer commonly lauded as the outstanding countertenor
of his generation.
I Compagnacci and Il Re, Teatro Grattacielo
Teatro Grattacielo gives concert performances of Verismo operas that range from the obscure to the unheard-of.
Macbeth, Royal Opera
Phyllida Lloyd’s reading of Verdi’s Macbeth –
first seen in 2002 and here revived for the second time – could certainly
not be described as ‘subtle’, either dramatically or visually.
Houston Grand Opera Announces New Leadership
http://houston.broadwayworld.com/article/Houston-Grand-Opera-Announces-New-Leadership-20110525
Zambello to WNO – as advisor
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/classical-beat/post/zambello-to-wno—as-advisor/2011/05/25/AGPvsGBH_blog.html
OresteÔa, Karlsplatz, Vienna
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/8607a222-8555-11e0-ae32-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1NOxzuRP1
Richard Coeur-de-Lion, New York
AndrÈ-Modeste GrÈtry, the greatest opera composer ever to come from Belgium, made his way to Paris in 1767 at the age of 26.
Handel – True or False?
“Germanico del sig. Hendl”. Since 1929 the printed catalogue of
the Conservatorio Cherubini in Florence (section “Opere teatrali”,
p. 143) has contained a Handel title not mentioned in any other sources.