http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/24/opera-orchestra-of-new-york-stages-a-comeback/
Author: Gary Hoffman
Three iconic places to see an opera in Italy
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2010-06-23-italy-opera_N.htm
San Francisco’s feminist ‘Die Walkure’
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/06/san-francisco-operas-feminist-die-walkure.html
Leipzig Opera to stage Gluck Ring
Richard Wagner’s 200th birthday is just around the corner in 2013 — and the composer was, after all, born in Leipzig.
VERDI: Otello — La Scala 1954
Otello: Dramma lirico in four acts.
Music composed by Giuseppe Verdi. Libretto by Arrigo Boito after The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice by William Shakespeare.
A Surreal Russian Opera That’s All Bark and a Lot of Bite, Too
http://70.32.73.199/cgi-bin/mt/mt.cgi?__mode=view&_type=entry&blog_id=1
Best When It’s Tangy, Not Sweet
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704895204575320720137221224.html?mod=WSJ_ArtsEnt_LifestyleArtEnt_4
Idomeneo at ENO
Mozart was reputedly more attached to this musical drama of hubris and honour set during the Trojan War than to any other of his stage works.
Anne Schwanewilms in Recital at Wigmore Hall
This recital was the last in a series of five put together by Roger Vignoles
to celebrate the lieder of Richard Strauss — a series which, comprising
85 of Strauss’ songs, has highlighted the composer’s role as heir
to the nineteenth-century German lieder masters and reminded us of the
ravishing beauty and varied emotional range of these unjustly neglected
songs.
Die Meistersinger von N¸rnberg, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/54c35442-7c7b-11df-8b74-00144feabdc0.html