http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/26/arts/music/26monk.html?_r=1&ref=music&oref=slogin
Die Bassariden, Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c7c2a9b2-2b41-11dd-a7fc-000077b07658.html
Eugene Onegin, Glyndebourne Festival, UK
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2c1eb0d8-28e3-11dd-96ce-000077b07658.html
Merry Widow at ENO
In these days of ‘concept’ productions, it is rare that the curtain goes up on the first act of an opera and it looks exactly as one might reasonably expect it to.
Masterpiece Masterfully Rendered in Toronto
I can still remember my first ever ìPelleas et Melisandeî in my first ever outing at San Francisco Opera during my first ever visit to that beautiful town.
MOZART: Le Nozze di Figaro ó Vienna 2001
Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro): Opera buffa in four acts, K492
A Berlin Sampler
A recent visit to Berlin’s three opera houses yielded decidedly, nay wildly varying outcomes.
HINDEMITH: Cardillac
Premiered in 1926, Paul Hindemithís opera Cardillac is a three-act work based on E. T. A. Hoffmannís short story Das Fr‰ulein von Scuderi.
WAGNER: Tristan und Isolde
In the 1983 production designed, staged, and directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, this recording of Richard Wagnerís Tristan und Isolde is a solid and well-thought performance that has much to offer.