An expedition against the famed warring women, the Amazons, ranking as Hercules’ ninth labor out the canonic twelve, provided the subject for the libretto by Antonio Salvi (not Giacomo Francesco Bussani, as hitherto misattributed) that Vivaldi set to music in 1723 as his own sixteenth operatic labor.
Author: Gary Hoffman
Opera at the BBC Proms 2007
Glyndebourne Festival Opera’s guest appearance is an annual fixture at the Proms, and this year the work of choice was Verdi’s Macbeth, in a semi-staged performance on July 24th based on Richard Jones’s new production for this year’s Festival.
Monteverdi with an image problem
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/65be501e-7e61-11dc-8fac-0000779fd2ac.html
This Time, No Laughing at the Witches
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/arts/music/21gure.html?_r=1&ref=music&oref=slogin
Dostojewski in Wien: Suchtverhalten als Ahnung
http://www.diepresse.at/home/kultur/klassik/337866/index.do?_vl_backlink=/home/kultur/klassik/index.do