Richard Eyre’s production of La traviata is so beautiful that it can be watched repeatedly, yet still yield pleasure. But appearances, however splendid, aren’t quite enough to make a completely satisfying evening.
‘La Traviata’ revival expressive, impressive
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20100511__La_Traviata__revival_expressive__impressive.html
Heggie’s Moby-Dick a whale of an opera
It’s glorious and it’s gripping; it’s grand — and
it’s good! Indeed, Jake Heggie’s Moby Dick,
premiered by Dallas Opera in its handsome new Winspear Opera House on April 30,
is a work that restores meaning to basic vocabulary made banal by overuse
through the decades.
Antony Walker: Big things lie ahead for opera conductor
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/09/AR2010050902954.html
‘Amelia’: Seattle Opera embraces challenge on a grand scale
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011825569_vietopera10m.html?prmid=head_more
Juan Diego FlÛrez, Barbican, London
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/ee20f1dc-5c44-11df-93f6-00144feab49a.html
Modern English Song Alive and Well
London’s Wigmore Hall is one of the world’s great centres for art song. This recital, by Susan Bickley and Iain Burnside, specialists in the genre, showed that English language art song is alive and thriving.
In a Laboratory, Turning Traditional Notions of Opera Upside Down
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/08/arts/music/08vox.html?src=mv
Central City: the little opera company that can
You don’t have to be Asian to sing Madama Butterfly, but if you’ve got a top soprano from that part of the world, it adds another dimension of reality to Puccini’s tear-drenched verismo.