http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-et-dudamel-domingo-20101011,0,3004423.story
Author: Gary Hoffman
Promised End, Linbury Theatre, London
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/40e8b2fe-d541-11df-ad3a-00144feabdc0.html
Anonymous 4: The Cherry Tree
In the popular view, the modern celebration of Christmas seems to have begun
with Charles Dickens’s revivifying A Christmas Carol (1843).
Washington National Opera’s edgy new ‘Salome’
http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/curtain-up/2010/oct/9/washington-national-operas-edgy-new-salome/
Bieito’s Muted ‘Carmen’ Brings a Fresh Vision
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703843804575533923300530594.html#
El Gato con Botas: Gotham Chamber Opera
Haven’t you always secretly felt that singers who reach for high notes
(and make them) ought to levitate and maintain themselves in mid-air
when they do it?
Das Rheingold, Metropolitan Opera
It will be no surprise to me, a year or five from now, when someone falls to
her or his death from the guy-wires that configure so much of Robert
Lepage’s new state-of-the-art (ah! But which art?) production of Der
Ring des Nibelung.
Frenchman named music director of Washington National Opera
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gdhKCZC28XIrQjg0gJ5tSwntXa4g?docId=CNG.6f90940f6d9bb44d73f1c586d3a44fbb.d41
Faust by ENO
Perhaps because the rather stolidly Victorian character of both its music
and its morality, Gounod’s Faust has been out of fashion in the
UK in recent decades, and owes a debt to David McVicar and his darkly Gothic
production for the Royal Opera in 2004 (now, at last, available on DVD) for the
restoration of its footing in the standard repertoire.