An Opera Where Debauchery Reigns at World’s End

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/arts/08iht-loomis.html?ref=arts

Lohengrin, Staatsoper Berlin

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/7176ed16-2389-11de-996a-00144feabdc0.html

Vibrant soprano brings many characters to life

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20090407/ARTICLE/904071071/2073/FEATURES?Title=Vibrant-soprano-brings-many-characters-to-life

L’elisir d’amore, Metropolitan Opera, New York

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/87c07454-1f9f-11de-a7a5-00144feabdc0.html

Countertenor Brings Drama to Works by Bach and Handel

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/arts/music/03conc.html?ref=arts

Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci at the MET

The current revival of Cav and Pag at the Met went off like clockwork, with all the comfort and reliability that implies for a repertory house and all the success these tried and true verismo stalwarts merit.

Reasons to be Cheerful

London: Sue Loder reviews Alessandro and the Handel Singing Final

Paris: As Good As It Gets

I cursed myself for not having turned on the television sooner.

WAGNER: Siegfried — Rome 1968

Siegfried: Second day of Der Ring des Nibelungen in three acts.

Return of Ulysses in San Francisco

William Kentridge is a South African artist who works in charcoal and eraser (smudges) on paper, in small animated film and video segments (black and white), in theater, and now in opera. Monteverdi’s The Return of Ulysses was his first operatic project that took place in 1998 in collaboration with South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Theater.