http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/05/more_delays_for.php
Author: Gary Hoffman
Lyric Opera Posts Annual Report
The Lyric Opera of Chicago announced their financial figures in their annual report and “balanced its budget” for the 2011-2012 season, according to general director Anthony Freud.
Thunder Storm at the Theater an der Wien
Conflicts like this usually remain inside opera house walls. The three Viennese daily newspapers carried headlines reporting that Oscar-winning director William Friedkin called the intendant of the Theater an der Wien a “liar.”
History Repeating
Iestyn Davies’ Wigmore Hall recital, ‘History Repeating’, may have explored various composers’ engagement with, and reinterpretation and reinvigoration of, music of the past, but Davies himself is very much the countertenor of the moment, and undoubtedly an exciting and fulfilling future lies ahead.
Semele, Canadian Opera Company
You never can tell. I would never have predicted which opera would be my favourite of the seven operas programmed this season by the Canadian Opera Company.
Billy Budd — Metropolitan Opera
The Met saved the best of the season for the end of it, revivals of their first-rate productions of two twentieth-century masterpieces, J·naček’s Makropoulos Case and Britten’s Billy Budd.
BartÛk and Szymanowski, Barbican Hall
In this, the second of two LSO concerts in which PÈter Eˆtvˆs replaced
Pierre Boulez, one continued to feel the loss of the latter in his repertoire,
yet one equally continued to value his replacement, very much his own
man.
More Delays for the Berlin State Opera
The re-opening of Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden has been set back for another year.