http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/10/18/bmroyal118.xml
Author: Gary Hoffman
Seattle Operaís mythic interpretation is a knockout.
http://seattleweekly.com/2007-10-17/arts/opera-review-iphigenia-in-tauris.php
Sellars lends unique vision to production
http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/arts_culture/view.bg?articleid=1038757
Pushy Mother Plots to Win Her Son the Top Spot
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/16/arts/music/16agri.html?_r=1&ref=music&oref=slogin
San Francisco stages triumphant Tannhäuser
At this point in his career David Gockley has no need to prove himself. He did that with awesome success as general director of Houston Grand Opera for 33 years, during which he made that company a front runner both on the American and international opera scenes.
GIORDANO: Fedora
Mirella Freni’s 1993 triumph in the lead of Umberto Giordani’s Fedora at La Scala has made it to DVD. In his booklet essay, Werner Pfister (translated by Stewart Spencer) admits the opera “does not enjoy the best of reputations.”
ìDein ist mein ganzes Herzî
Okay, okay, I freely admit this up front: I am not inordinately fond of operetta. Just thought you should know. All the more remarkable then that I found myself listening to this new recording several times over.
STRAUSS : Elektra
Whatever you do, don’t give this DVD as a gift to people you don’t want to alienate.
Philip Glass celebrates 70th with compelling new opera
SAN FRANCISCO ó ìMy subject is war and the pity of war, and the poetry is in the pity.î