http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/arts/music/08trit.html
Author: Gary Hoffman
Prom 68 ó Russian Fairy Tales from Rimsky-Korsakov and Stravinsky
Kashchey is a gnarled old ogre who imprisons a beautiful young princess in his gloomy underworld. It’s classic psychodrama. Kashchey has supernatural powers, so how can the Princess be saved ?
WAGNER: Tristan und Isolde
I’ve rarely seen a performance of Tristan und Isolde where I was quite so conscious of the singers’ teeth.
The Coronation of Poppea
The startup of a new opera company is always cause for cheering; it is getting harder and harder (that is, more and more expensive) to do, especially in New York.
Prom 64 ó Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in Messiaen’s Turang‚lÏla-symphonie
Because Turang‚lÏla is such a panorama, taking in Hollywood, Hindus and Peruvians, Wagner and Gurrelieder, it’s easy to assume it’s all surface Technicolor.
Opera from the Greek
Perhaps it will be enough to tell you that I wasnít halfway through this book before I searched the web for a copy of Professor Ewansís study of Wagner and Aeschylusís Oresteia, and ordered it forthwith: It has to be good.
Shadowless in Amsterdam
The Netherlands Opera opened its season at the Muziektheater with a stunning new production of Die Frau ohne Schatten, setting the bar very high indeed for all that is to follow in the repertoire.
HANDEL: Belshazzar
Although performances of Handel’s more obscure large-scale works are relatively common in London, it is far less common that they are given in a venue as large and high-profile as the Royal Albert Hall, with a line-up of conductor and soloists that will attract a full house for a lengthy and static work on a hot summer evening.
JAN¡?EK: Osud
Jan·?ekís music has already been well served in this yearís Proms in a memorable evening conducted by Boulez (reviewed on this site by Anne Ozorio).