http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d0e82dba-a773-11dd-865e-000077b07658.html
Getting a Handel on Baroque music
http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/867169.html
Works of Richard Strauss
The following are performances of major works by Richard Strauss. Click the appropriate link to access.
Wagner Duets: Nilsson and Hotter, Polaski and Botha
A few years ago EMI released a recording of Wagner duets with Placido Domingo and Deborah Voigt.
The Tsar’s Bride by OONY
What opera contains a terrific overture, a wedding sextet, two murderous magical potions, a mad scene for coloratura soprano, a magnificent a cappella aria for contralto, dozens of glorious melodies and lots of nifty choral writing?
Blond Leading the Blond: Scandinavia Times Three
I was just itching to experience the new Oslo Opera House ever since I saw the pictures of its grand opening (ahead of schedule, thank-you-very-much) last April.
PUCCINI: La Bohème — Vienna 1988
La Bohème, opera in four acts.
Music composed by Giacomo Puccini. Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi lllica, based
on episodes from Henri Murger’s Scènes de la vie de Bohème.
Lucia di Lammermoor at the MET
Mary Zimmerman’s unmusical production of Lucia certainly improves if you give it a cast of singers who know what Donizetti is about.
Don Giovanni at the MET
The fascination of Don Giovanni lies not only in the bejeweled score but in the interplay of its eight intriguing characters, each based on an ancient type, yet each somehow cut loose from the formula da Ponte molded so well.