http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3434427.ece
Author: Gary Hoffman
On Metís Grand Stage, Opera Singers of Tomorrow
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/arts/26audi.html?scp=6&sq=TOMMASINI&st=nyt
Cyrano at The Opera Company of Philadelphia
The Opera Company of Philadelphiaís February production is the second staging of David DiChieraís new opera Cyrano, a co-production with Michigan Opera Theater and Florida Grand Opera.
Miles Davis, Miles Smiles and the Invention of Post-Bop
It is a measure of the classic status that the music of Miles Davis has acquired in American culture that a single LP produced for Columbia in the 1960s (Miles Smiles) is the focus of a short monograph from Indiana University Press.
Short on the sides and Full On Top
Perhaps the most beloved comic opera, Rossiniís Il barbiËre di Siviglia has never left the repertoire.
Salome at Covent Garden
The Royal Opera’s new Salome is set roughly in the 1930s, in surroundings which refer overtly to Pasolini’s SalÚ or the 120 Days of Sodom, populated by uniformed soldiers and naked whores.
Carmen, The Metopolitan Opera
Dread and disgruntle are the emotions natural to the fan of any special singer when he arrives at the opera house to learn she has withdrawn from the performance and been replaced by an unknown.