http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/chi-0326-classical-jvrmar26,0,227951.story
Author: Gary Hoffman
The Jan·cek affair
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article5972796.ece?&EMC-Bltn=KIXGEA
Cleveland Orchestra, Zurich Opera make a fine Marriage of Figaro’
http://www.cleveland.com/music/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-0/123797002017990.xml&coll=2
Orlando Opera faces the music: Shortfall could bring down the curtains
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orl-asec-economy-orlando-opera-032409,0,7488546.story
Moving performance
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/mar/22/lz1c22opera184125-moving-performance/
Vivaldi’s ‘Motezuma,’ lost, found, restored, re-imagined
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-ca-motezuma22-2009mar22,0,6460594.story
Jenůfa — English National Opera, London Coliseum
Jan·?ek enthusiasts in London have been spoiled this month: opening the day before English Touring Opera’s Katya Kabanova, David Alden’s staging of Jenůfa made a welcome return to the Coliseum following its original double Olivier Award-winning run in 2006.
La Sonnambula at the MET
In 1831, when Vincenzo Bellini composed this pastorale full of characters who never express any but sincere emotions (with the exception of Lisa, the calculating flirt), he certainly intended them, and their feelings, and therefore their story, to be taken seriously – or he would not have given them such seriously lovely music.
Il Trovatore at the MET
For nearly a decade after its premiere, in 1853, Il Trovatore was the most popular opera, perhaps the most popular stage work on the planet — even more than Rigoletto or Ernani, and far more than Traviata, which had its premiere the following autumn.