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