http://news.ft.com/cms/s/9b3a6fd0-4c17-11da-997b-0000779e2340.html
Author: Gary Hoffman
Le Nozze di Figaro, Metropolitan Opera, New York
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/cc39fae4-4d19-11da-ba44-0000779e2340.html
Lyric meets challenges of ‘Manon Lescaut’
http://www.suntimes.com/output/delacoma/cst-ftr-lyric02.html
Stellar combo helps Lyric deliver winner
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/chi-0511020021nov02,1,6668586.story?coll=chi-ent_music-hed
Echoes of the superstar castrato
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/11/02/bmschol02.xml&sSheet=/arts/2005/11/02/ixartleft.html
Audiences Love a Minimalist ‘Ring’ Cycle; Critics Aren’t Sure
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/02/arts/music/02ring.html
ROSSINI: Der Barbier von Sevilla (Barbiere di Siviglia)
Rossiniís masterpiece is based on Beaumarchaisí first of three playsóLe Barbier de SÈville, La folle journÈe ou Le Mariage de Figaro, and La MËre Coupableódetailing the adventures of Figaro, a barber from Seville, Spain. Rossini was not the first, nor the last composer to set the story to music: Giovanni Maria Pagliardi, Friedrich Ludwig Benda, Johann AndrÈ, Francesco Morlacchi, Miguel Nieto and GerÛnimo JimÈnez, Nicolo Isouard, and H. R. Bishop are some of the names that come to mind.
A thrilling spectacle of Puccini’s heroines
http://www.newsday.com/features/printedition/ny-turandot4492280nov01,0,3529973.story?coll=ny-features-print
vilaine fille: Turandot
Puccini’s Turandot is an opera to whose sinister charms I was long immune. I’m not sure what happened in recent years to make me love it.