http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/10/25/boston_baroque_opens_with_handels_xerxes/
Seattle Opera’s “Elektra” resounds with tragedy
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/alltheworldsastage/archives/152474.asp?from=blog_last3
STRAUSS: Intermezzo — Vienna 1963
Intermezzo: B¸rgerliche Komˆdie with symphonic interludes in two acts.
O’Leary Succeeds MacKay At Opera Theatre Of Saint Louis
http://www.websterkirkwoodtimes.com/Articles-i-2008-10-24-81853.113117_OLeary_Succeeds_MacKay_At_Opera_Theatre_Of_Saint_Louis.html
Seattle Opera Transforms Seattle Into Ring City
http://www.huliq.com/13/71324/seattle-opera-transforms-seattle-ring-city
Falstaff at Pimlico Opera, Cadogan Hall
Pimlico Opera is based at the Grange in Hampshire, home of the Grange Park opera festival, but pre-dates its sister company by a decade and has been giving national tours of popular operas since the 1980s as well as doing some pioneering opera and music theatre projects in UK prisons.
BACH: Mass in B minor
Bach’s monumental Mass in b minor exists in an abundant quantity of period performances to the point where one might ponder the wisdom of adding yet another to the shelf.
Paris Opera’s new production of The Cunning Little Vixen has a lot going for it.
The good news (make that “great news”) is that conductor Dennis Russell Davies had total command over this ever-shifting composition, one minute lyrical and introspective, the next soaring and rhapsodic, the next percussive and agitated.
Turandot without the trimmings
In recent years it’s the headgear of the ice-hearted princess that is often the major source of awe and excitement in productions of Puccini’s incomplete final opera.
Cervantino pays homage to Catalonia
Joanot Martorell’s 1490 “Tirant lo Blanc” isn’t on anyone’s reading list these days, and that’s rather a shame, for it — the first Catalan novel — was a favorite book of Miguel de Cervantes.