The Culture: ‘Samson and Delilah’ and religion

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/12/DDG0S3FM1.DTL

Ariane et Barbe-Bleue and Capriccio in Paris

Name this stage piece if you can:

PUCCINI: La Bohème

Before the age of computers, CDs. DVDs and Apple i-Phones, there was television.

BEETHOVEN: Fidelio

Los Angeles Opera opened its 2007 season with Fidelio on September 8th, and on the following day held a gala performance of Verdi’s Requiem.

DONIZETTI: La Figlia del Reggimento

La figlia del reggimento [La Fille du rÈgiment (ëThe Daughter of the Regimentí)], OpÈra comique in two acts.

La BohËme x3

On stages all over the world, most any night of the year, poor Parisian Mimi hacks her way into oblivion, while her sometime lover cries out her name in hysterical despair.

A slave tale fails to break free

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/04a37ada-6146-11dc-bf25-0000779fd2ac.html

IphigÈnie en Tauride, Royal Opera House, London

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/849a8af8-6083-11dc-8ec0-0000779fd2ac.html

A Taste of City Opera’s Season

http://www.nysun.com/article/62285

DONIZETTI: L’elisir d’amore

L’elisir d’amore, Melodramma giocoso in two acts.