What to make of “Lucrezia Borgia”? I have always felt that, some lovely arias notwithstanding, this Donizetti work never really gets going until the slam-bang soprano-baritone duet in Act II.
Composer Philip Glass charms in Nasher Salon lecture
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/stories/DN-glass_0418gl.ART.State.Edition1.46773d6.html
Review: Ainadamar, Flavio and Der Rosenkavalier
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/04/18/bmaina118.xml
The Minotaur: Enthralling, hypnotising – and unloveable
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/04/17/btopera117.xml
Kathleen Battle, Carnegie Hall, New York
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/03816b02-0b06-11dd-8ccf-0000779fd2ac.html
Tenor Giordani Sings for Pope at Yankee Stadium: Interview
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a24mkyUuvpKM&refer=muse
Berlinís ìotherî opera often stellar
It is, you might say, the little opera that can. True, if itís size of the budget, the price of tickets and the number of seats that concerns you, the Komische Oper is clearly the third of Berlinís opera houses.