WNO’s ‘Carmen’: Its Charms Are All Too Familiar

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/09/AR2008110902093.html

Between Hell and Heaven, a World of Morphing Imagery

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/arts/music/10faus.html?ref=arts

That ‘Lulu’ that you do so well

http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/music/classical/1269966,CST-FTR-lyric10web.article

Susan Bullock on how Elektra took her through hell and high Cs

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/opera/article5092244.ece

L’elisir d’amore in San Francisco

There are remnants of snobbery in San Francisco that are happiest when San Francisco Opera
associates itself with the likes of Vienna State Opera and Covent Garden, and left positively
frightened at the idea of a production from Opera Colorado/Fort Worth Opera/et al. on the War
Memorial Opera House stage.

PUCCINI: Tosca — Bruxelles 1958

Tosca: A melodrama in three acts.

The Pearl Fishers at Lyric Opera of Chicago

The current revival of Georges Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers at Lyric Opera of Chicago (seen 25 October) brings together an exceptionally strong cast.

Houston brushes up its Shakespeare

In 1830, three years after the death of Beethoven and two after Schubert’s untimely demise, Berlioz, 27, dazzled the world with his phantasmagoric — perhaps drug-inspired — Symphonie fantastique.

A Truly Wacky Barber

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/arts/2008/11/07/372207.htm

It’s time for the arts to get creative — about money

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-notebook7-2008nov07,0,4984416.story