http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/live_reviews/article3357607.ece
Author: Gary Hoffman
SALIERI: Prima la musica e poi le parole
In 1786, Habsburg Emperor Joseph II commissioned a pair of short operas from two of the biggest names in Viennese musical theater: Salieri and Mozart.
ENO’s The Mikado
Director Jonathan Miller was there at the curtain call to greet the first night of this latest revival of a production which has now been in ENO’s repertoire for twenty years.
LA Opera: Tristan und Isolde
My Valentine’s Day gift came a bit early courtesy of Los Angeles Opera. Of course, it is to be hoped that your own celebration has a happier outcome than that of opera’s most famous Love Couple, “Tristan und Isolde.”
Rodelinda at Portland
Valentine’s Day may not quite be in the same major holiday league with the Fourth of July or New Year’s Eve, but you wouldn’t have known it from the fireworks emanating from the stage of Portland Opera, in the form of some dazzling Valentine’s night vocalizing in quite a fine production of Handel’s “Rodelinda.”
Navajo oratorio a triumph in Phoenix
A sound designer? Isnít that merely a euphemistic upgrade of ìsound engineer?î
Tosca at COC
An air of anticipation filled the Four Seasons Centre as the announcer walked across the stage to say that soprano Ester S¸megi was ill and would not be performing.
Interview with Canadian Mezzo-Soprano, Jean Stilwell, and pianist, Patti Loach
ìQuand je vous aimerais? Ma fois, je ne sais pas?î are Carmenís first words of seduction.