http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/05/08/bmopera108.xml
Latest mash-up: COC and hip hop
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080507.whiphop07/BNStory/Entertainment/Music/
Muti to CSO
http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/classical-music-and-culture/classical-musicculture/2008/05/muti-to-cso/
Carolyn Abbate Joins University of Pennsylvania Faculty as Professor of Music
[7 May 2008] (Media-Newswire.com) – PHILADELPHIA ñ- Carolyn Abbate, who ranks among the worldís foremost musicologists, has been appointed the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Music at the University…
Conductor to skip vampire-themed opera
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-web-0507-music-vampiresmay08,0,2772489,print.story
Die Entf¸hrung aus dem Serail
Die Entf¸hrung aus dem Serail is too light to be a grand opera, but it makes rather grander demands of its singers than operetta could possibly bear.
Karajan: The Music, the Legend.
At the centenary of the birth of the conductor Herbert von Karajan various commemorations are occurring, an among them is the concise CD and DVD release by Deutsche Grammophon, with both discs bound into a booklet that includes a short prose tribute to the man illustrated with some well-chosen photographs from various parts of his career.
Punch & Judy at ENO
English National Opera’s production of Harrison Birtwistle’s ‘Punch and Judy’ is the company’s second collaboration with the Young Vic Theatre — following the premiere of Neuwirth’s ‘Lost Highway’ a few weeks earlier — and remarkably, also the second London production of this early Birtwistle work within a month, the previous one having been at the Linbury Studio Theatre, a collaboration between Music Theatre Wales and the Royal Opera.
Spoleto USA revives opera, hall
Operas do not often get a second chance. A new work is premiered and ó if itís a co-commission ó it moves on to another company or two.