There come nights in the opera season where gesamtkunstwerke won’t do — enough of epic masterpieces and supreme lyric outpourings of the human spirit!
Author: Gary Hoffman
No Home for Heroes at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna — Pierre Audi’s new production of Handel’s Partenope.
Handel operas are like London buses — you wait for ages and then 3 come along together.
Strong ‘Pagliacci’ lifts uneven double bill at Lyric Opera
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/chi-0216-lyric-cavalleria-ovnfeb16,0,2215908.story
From a vault in Paris: The sound of opera in 1907
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/16/arts/opera.php
Florida Grand Opera parts ways with music director
http://www.miamiherald.com/living/story/902663.html
The Return of Tobias, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/classical/reviews/the-return-of-tobias-queen-elizabeth-hall-londonbrvenus-and-adonis-wiltons-music-hall-londonbrthe-nash-ensemble-wigmore-hall-london-1622133.html
Rigoletto, Royal Opera House, London
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/7b47b2b2-f85a-11dd-aae8-000077b07658.html