THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: Verdi considered Victor Hugoís play Le Roi síamuse ìone of the greatest creations of the modern theatreî, and jumped at the opportunity to adapt it for Venice in 1851.
Author: Gary Hoffman
Sherrill Milnes – An All Star Gala
The former TV-producer in me tells me the following conversation took place between producer and director (in German as this is a GDR (East-Germany) product).
Divas and dabblers ó The lesson of the crisis in English opera is that we have to overhaul how the arts are governed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1666756,00.html
Stravinsky in San Francisco ó Two Reviews
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: The San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas present two semi-staged theatrical performances: a double-bill featuring Stravinsky’s rarely heard operas The Nightingale and Oedipus Rex.
An Intrepid Tenor Faces Un-Schubertian Obstacles
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/13/arts/music/13chri.html
GAY: The Beggarís Opera
Benjamin Brittenís identity as a decidedly ìnationalî composer is formed in part by his well-known engagement of pre-existent English music, old English texts, and subjects rich in the English legacy, as a glance at works like the Purcellian The Young Personís Guide to the Orchestra, the Chester mystery play, Noyes Fludde, or the Elizabethan opera, Gloriana, all confirm.