http://www.nysun.com/arts/deborah-voigts-bold-gambit/86648/
Les PÍcheurs de perles at the Washington National Opera
The second offering of the current WNO season is a San Diego Opera production of Georges Bizet’s Pearl Fishers (1863).
Cool Cavalli at Covent Garden ó La Calisto
Planet Earth laid waste by forces beyond our control, hunger and drought squeezing humanity out of existence whilst those in charge look on, laughing, lusting and concerned only with their own power struggles ñ does this sound familiar?
Fleming Gala Opens the Metís Season
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/arts/music/24gala.html?_r=1&ref=music&oref=slogin
Analyzing music the digital way
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/20080922_Computers_have_exquisite_ears.html
Paerís Leonora from Bampton Classical Opera
Musically and dramatically Ferdinando Paerís Leonora and Beethovenís Fidelio might be said to belong respectively to pre- and post-revolutionary ages.
Puccini’s Il Trittico at Los Angeles Opera
A few seasons back, Los Angeles Opera invited William Friedkin to direct a double-bill of Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle and Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi.
Music for the Court of Maximilian II
Although Jacobus Vaet, Antonius Galli and Pieter Maessens are little-known composers today, this impressive recording featuring their music, the debut recording by the ensemble Cinquecento, may serve as a cautionary reminder that modern familiarity is often the fruit of circumstance and not necessarily a reliable measure of artistic achievement.