http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/78309482-af43-11dd-a4bf-000077b07658.html
Handel’s ‘Caesar’ a musical delight
http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/884437.html
Elektra’s score is revelatory
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/show-23582883-details/The+Royal+Opera:+Elektra/showReview.do?reviewId=23584383
Mortier Stiffs City Opera; Met Drops a Bomb, Welcomes Faust
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=axVkBoHbwRc4&refer=home
WNO’s ‘Carmen’: Its Charms Are All Too Familiar
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/09/AR2008110902093.html
Between Hell and Heaven, a World of Morphing Imagery
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/arts/music/10faus.html?ref=arts
That ‘Lulu’ that you do so well
http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/music/classical/1269966,CST-FTR-lyric10web.article
Susan Bullock on how Elektra took her through hell and high Cs
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/opera/article5092244.ece
L’elisir d’amore in San Francisco
There are remnants of snobbery in San Francisco that are happiest when San Francisco Opera
associates itself with the likes of Vienna State Opera and Covent Garden, and left positively
frightened at the idea of a production from Opera Colorado/Fort Worth Opera/et al. on the War
Memorial Opera House stage.
Muti’s La Traviata
EMI owns this recording, so if pride dictates they repackage it in the “Great Recordings of the Century” series, a dissenter shouldn’t moralize.