While the tributes and retrospectives continue to appear for the late Luciano Pavarotti, his sometime-colleague (if not rival) Pl·cido Domingo maintains a top-rank career, even including a contract with Deutsche Grammophon for new studio work.
STRAUSS: Die Liebe der Danae
Gala may be a budget label, but more opera sets of vintage live performances deserve a booklet essay as concise yet comprehensive, critically honest and yet fair, as Andrew Palmer’s for this set, which preserves a 1980 performance of Richard Strauss and Joseph Grigor’s Die Liebe der Danae.
Opera by Martin Halpern at Music School Playhouse
http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=31&id=24103
Composer John Adams’ biography is as lively as his music
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/books/2008327521_br02adams.html
Parsifal, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, Valencia
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a2ed51ee-a4f6-11dd-b4f5-000077b07658.html
Oakland Opera does Stravinsky
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/28/DD1L13OU6I.DTL
A fight at the opera
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/classical/news/a-fight-at-the-opera-975440.html
Women dominate battle of sexes
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4e2808a8-a379-11dd-942c-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1
In a Floating World, Enter Heartbreak and Puppets
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/27/arts/music/27butter.html?_r=1&ref=music&oref=slogin
Ian McEwan on his debut opera, For You
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/opera/article5001255.ece