The Last Night of the Proms is notorious because it’s an excuse for jingoistic excess.
Author: Gary Hoffman
Prom 70 ó St FranÁois d’Assise
Even a concert performance of Messiaen’s St FranÁois d’Assise could hardly fail to be an event.
ìGreat Performancesî remembers Pavarotti ó What remains is the voice.
Luciano Pavoritti died on September 6, 2007. The all-too-ample figure and the fables associated with him are already retreating from memory.
Cecilia Bartoli at the Musikverein Wien
Every time an artist walks onto the performance stage, he or she attempts to give the performance of their lives, focusing on everything they have learned prior to, and giving of themselves in an unprecedented way.
Dessay conquers stage
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-lyric-ovn-0908sep08,0,3044829.story
The power and the glory of Messiaen’s only opera
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/09/the_power_and_the_glory_of_mes.html
Opera in the Park enters its 35th year
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/07/DDHG12PSEI.DTL
Antonio Pappano: the unstoppable maestro
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/09/08/bmpappano108.xml
Vivica Genaux Focuses on Baroque Repertoire in 2008-09 Season
The 2008-09 season of radiant mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux promises to add further luster to her credentials as one of the world’s leading interpreters of music of the Baroque and bel canto periods.