Runnicles won’t renew contract with S.F. Opera

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/16/DDGJOL63271.DTL

Argento at Santa Fe

http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/49262.html

Semele, New York City Opera

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/c06d3c0c-440e-11db-8965-0000779e2340.html

A Relative Newcomer Makes Her Mark

http://www.nysun.com/article/39518

Paris’s Art-Deco Salle Pleyel Opens After Four-Year Restoration

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aL1Yp5cJKYBI&refer=muse

Un ballo in maschera, San Francisco

(Photo by Terrence McCarthy) By Allan Ulrich [Financial Times, 11 September 2006] Regime change in operatic duchies is never smooth, but need it always look and sound so wrenching? The…

Tragic Love in a Garret, on the Brink of World War I

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/11/arts/music/11bohe.html

`Gaddafi’ Premieres at ENO, Raises Questions of Taste, Sanity

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aI_PfbXUuznk&refer=muse

San Francisco Opera Opens Season with Voigt in Verdi’s Ballo (and a Free Concert in Golden Gate Park)

http://www.playbillarts.com/news/article/5180.html

Auschwitz Women’s Orchestra Provided a Soundtrack for Suffering

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=abA.auUM.KmE&refer=muse