http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d034585e-e358-11de-8d36-00144feab49a.html
Author: Gary Hoffman
A Faust of Distinction at Lyric Opera of Chicago
For its second production of the 2009-10 season Lyric Opera of Chicago staged a revival of Charles Gounod’s Faust, last seen here in 2003-04.
‘The Merry Widow’: Lyric Opera staging Franz Lehar classic
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/chi-1204-lyric-merry-widowdec04,0,313070.column
Le Nozze di Figaro at the MET
The best news about the Met’s eleven-year-old Jonathan Miller
production of Le Nozze di Figaro is that it has been restaged by
Gregory Keller, more tautly spun, many elegant jokes or character moments
inserted, several idiocies discarded and with plenty of room remaining for
singers with a flair for it (such as Luca Pisaroni and Isabel Leonard) to
invent comic business of their own.
Imaginative New Opera to Debut in New York
http://www.digitalcity.com/2009/12/03/imaginative-new-opera-to-debut-in-new-york/
New Schoenberg score stolen in Hungary
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gaq9zxASUMIzEfoMUOhpixgGND-Q
OperaUpClose: Puccini in the pub
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/dec/03/operaupclose-puccini-pub
Desert songs given an extra layer of drama
http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/arts/desert-songs-given-an-extra-layer-of-drama/2009/11/30/1259429335052.html
Vancouver Opera’s Norma pleases, but takes no risks
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/vancouver-operas-norma-pleases-but-takes-no-risks/article1382168/
THOMAS: Hamlet — London 2003
Hamlet: OpÈra in five acts.
Music composed by Ambroise Thomas. Libretto by Michel CarrÈ and Jules Barbier after The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare.