http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=244256
Author: Gary Hoffman
Tutti in maschera, Wexford Opera House, Ireland
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6ca6b784-9f87-11dd-a3fa-000077b07658.html
Oedipe, ThȂtre du Capitole, Paris
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0fc8f54c-9f08-11dd-98bd-000077b07658.html
The Elemental Power of Ewa Podles
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/20/AR2008102002538.html
Wagner’s ‘Rienzi’ takes a cartoon-like turn
By George Loomis [Int’l Herald Tribune, 21 October 2008] BREMEN, Germany: History has assured that politics are inextricably bound up with the artistic output of Richard Wagner, but only one…
Idomeneo in San Francisco
Munich in 1781 was hardly the big city, not an enlightened Paris where Gluck had recently turned the opera world on its ear, not a European capital like Vienna where Italian operatic imperialism was unassailable.
Rimsky-Korsakov: the forgotten centenary
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/tomserviceblog/2008/oct/20/rimsky-korsakov-anniversary-russia
Alessandro Scarlatti: Il Trionfo della Santissima Vergine Assunta in Cielo
“One can easily imagine — Berkeley professor Donald J. Grout wrote in 1979 — a Scarlatti oratorio occasionally being sung in church or in concert […], but it is more difficult (though perhaps not quite impossible) to imagine a Scarlatti opera being staged at a modern opera house”.
An interview with Scott Lindroth
An interview with Scott Lindroth by Tom Moore