One for the opera buffs: ‘Callas Forever’ profiles a diva on the downslope Friday, November 26, 2004 By WILLIAM ARNOLD SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER MOVIE CRITIC At first thought, Fanny Ardant would…
Category: Commentary
On Robert Carsen
He’s a smooth operator John Allison [Times Online] Robert Carsen may be a showman but his intent is serious FOR more than a decade Robert Carsen has been one of…
On Lulu’s Portrait
Ascription of Identity: The Bild Motif and the Character of Lulu Silvio José Dos Santos The most controversial aspect of Alban Berg’s opera Lulu — and one that has generated…
The Biting Kiss
“Pardon me, but your teeth are in my neck”: Giambattista Marino, Claudio Monteverdi, and the bacio mordace Massimo Ossi Claudio Monteverdi’s “Eccomi pronta ai baci” presents an odd pairing of…
Manhattan School of Music to Present Hoiby’s A Month in the Country
LEE HOIBY: A Month in the Country Libretto by William Ball after the play by Ivan Turgenev The Manhattan School of Music Opera Theater presents Lee Hoiby’s A Month in…
Lebrecht on Gelb
How the Met was fixed By Norman Lebrecht / November 11, 2004 The Metropolitan Opera House in New York regards itself, with some justice, as the world’s greatest. In America,…
Haroun and the Sea of Stories at NYC Opera
An American master premieres at City Opera An interview with Charles Wuorinen 10/26/2004 The world premiere of Haroun and the Sea of Stories features an inspired cross-section of artists among…
Biographical Note: Angela M. Brown
For a Fill-In Aida, a Triumph Long in Coming By ANNE MIDGETTE [NY Times] Angela M. Brown grew up singing gospel music in her grandfather’s Baptist church in Indianapolis, but…
Appearing at the Met: Verdi’s I Vespri Siciliani
Dubious History – Miraculous Music By John Yohalem [Playbill Arts] November 1, 2004 I Vespri Siciliani, a collaboration between Verdi and librettist Eugène Scribe, produced some astounding music–but historical fact…
Le Figaro Interviews Peter Eötvös on Angels in America
Eötvös : “Je ne cherche plus, je trouve” bq. Après le lyrisme russe revisité dans Trois Soeurs, chef-d’oeuvre unanimement salué, et Le Balcon de Genet ramené du coté de la…