Once again, as in L’Etoile, Mark Lamos’s staging and
Robert Wierzel’s lighting nearly steal the show in the City Opera’s
revival of Madama Butterfly.
Author: Gary Hoffman
Madama Butterfly, NYCO
Demanding Macatsoris sends opera singers out to the world’s stages prepared.
http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/89259677.html
A Composer Grows before his Work — The Grapes of Wrath at Carnegie Hall
Many congratulations and thanks are in order to the Collegiate Chorale for
bringing Ricky Ian Gordon’s adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath to New York audiences this week.
End of the aria as opera falls on hard times
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a6e6b998-360e-11df-aa43-00144feabdc0.html
Wolfgang Wagner, Director of Bayreuth, Is Dead at 90
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/arts/music/23wagner.html
La Voix humaine/Herzog Blaubarts Burg, Oper der Stadt Kˆln
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/744e9b0e-369f-11df-b810-00144feabdc0.html
Villazon Triumphs in Stage Return as Love-Sick Twit
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aOY8Cj1dclng#
Il pastor fido at the Royal College of Music
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/opera/article7071692.ece