http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/opera/article5659128.ece
Author: Gary Hoffman
The Soprano: Netrebko’s Star Turn
http://www.wwd.com/lifestyle-news/eye/netrebkos-star-turn-1968567?justin=1968567
Werner Herzog takes opera into a whole new aria
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/opera/4540003/Werner-Herzog-takes-opera-into-a-whole-new-aria.html
Her Season of Puccini on Stage and on Disc
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123370509642545547.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Magic Flute at ENO
‘Back by popular demand’ claimed ENO’s publicity material for the
21-year-old production which had its supposed swan-song last season – though it remains questionable whether the company ever really intended to get rid of it.
Die tote Stadt, Royal Opera House
Die tote Stadt is Korngold’s masterpiece in the old sense of the word, when a craftsman would produce a dazzling work to show the world what he could do. This is Korngold’s manifesto, so to speak.
The Beggar’s Opera at Covent Garden
Entering the Linbury Studio for this production of The Beggar’s Opera, one might have been forgiven for thinking that one had wandered into the main house by mistake.
Liber Evangeliorum: Verse and Music From the Age of Charlemagne
The emergence of a standardized western liturgy with a uniform chant repertory, while to a significant degree realized, neither completely silenced regional liturgies nor extinguished the additions to liturgical practice that comprise much medieval creativity.
Eugene Onegin at the MET
Pushkin’s poem Eugene Onegin is the first of the great line of Russian novels, passionately loved by all the literate of that most literary nation.