Operas do not often get a second chance. A new work is premiered and ó if itís a co-commission ó it moves on to another company or two.
Author: Gary Hoffman
Glyndebourne: lust, greed -and some great tunes
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/05/08/bmopera108.xml
Latest mash-up: COC and hip hop
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080507.whiphop07/BNStory/Entertainment/Music/
Muti to CSO
http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/classical-music-and-culture/classical-musicculture/2008/05/muti-to-cso/
Carolyn Abbate Joins University of Pennsylvania Faculty as Professor of Music
[7 May 2008] (Media-Newswire.com) – PHILADELPHIA ñ- Carolyn Abbate, who ranks among the worldís foremost musicologists, has been appointed the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Music at the University…
Conductor to skip vampire-themed opera
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-web-0507-music-vampiresmay08,0,2772489,print.story
Die Entf¸hrung aus dem Serail
Die Entf¸hrung aus dem Serail is too light to be a grand opera, but it makes rather grander demands of its singers than operetta could possibly bear.
Punch & Judy at ENO
English National Opera’s production of Harrison Birtwistle’s ‘Punch and Judy’ is the company’s second collaboration with the Young Vic Theatre — following the premiere of Neuwirth’s ‘Lost Highway’ a few weeks earlier — and remarkably, also the second London production of this early Birtwistle work within a month, the previous one having been at the Linbury Studio Theatre, a collaboration between Music Theatre Wales and the Royal Opera.
Fort Worth Opera Festival features ìAngels in Americaî
In 2007 it was an experiment; now itís a new summer festival firmly rooted in fertile Texas turf with a bright view of its second season and of the more distant future as well.