Henze premiere/HallÈ/De Ridder

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/reviews/story/0,,1735799,00.html

In search of the lost golden age

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/3397751c-b837-11da-bfc5-0000779e2340.html

The Growth of a Tenor Voice Made Plain in Handel Works

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/21/arts/music/21luke.html

City Operaís Production of The Most Happy Fella

The New York City Opera opened its spring 2006 season with a new production of Frank Loesserís The Most Happy Fella, which premiered on Broadway fifty years ago in 1956.

GOUNOD: RomÈo et Juliette

RomÈo et Juliette, OpÈra en cinq actes

Music composed by Charles FranÁois Gounod. Libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel CarrÈ, based on the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.

A classy ‘Carmen’

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20060320-9999-lz1c20carmen.html

SCHUBERT: Symphony no. 9

This is an absolutely fabulous recording of Schubertís final symphony, which is often compared as his closest composition to the style of Beethoven.

MONTEVERDI: L’Orfeo

In the 1990ís Pierre Audi staged productions of Monteverdiís three surviving operas (LíOrfeo, Il ritorno díUlisse in patria, and Líincoronazione di Poppea) with De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam.

Maria Callas ó Three Remastered Releases from EMI

Of all opera singers of the last century, no one better dominated the genreís star power than Maria Callas. During her thirty-four years onstage, she came to embody the essence of the term ìdiva,î both in her stormy personal life and her equally tempestuous stage career.

Onward and Upward With the Opera

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/19/AR2006031901322.html