http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e4ec2604-2d98-11dd-b92a-000077b07658.html
NYC Health Department: Mice at Met Opera
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080528/ap_en_mu/metropolitan_opera_mice
Jonathan Miller’s Operatic Mission
http://www.nysun.com/arts/jonathan-millers-operatic-mission/78700/
Mezzo-Soprano’s Glorious Debut Lifts ‘Cavalleria’
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/26/AR2008052602278.html
Il prigioniero/Bluebeardís Castle, La Scala, Milan
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f6986b80-2c06-11dd-9861-000077b07658.html
Tree-mendous in Chicago
Chicago Opera Theater scored a resounding success with its area premiere of John Adamsí newest stage piece, ìA Flowering Tree.î
Revised Amistad makes its mark
Upon its premiere at Chicagoís Lyric Opera in 1997 Anthony Davisí Amistad found little critical favor. Its undisciplined excesses led one writer to compare it to a high-school pageant.
Books ‘n Things
Two excellent books on opera have come to hand, providing many hours of entertaining reading. I combine notice of them with a few thoughts about composer Paul Moravecís CDs, and his forthcoming opera premiere at Santa Fe Opera in 2009.
Burly and Savage, but Elegant: Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall
http://www.nysun.com/arts/burly-and-savage-but-elegant-met-orchestra/78599/
An Interview with Allen Anderson
By Tom Moore
Composer Allen Anderson will be familiar to aficionados of contemporary
music through various works released on CRI, or those in the Research
Triangle through his presence in the new music scene here in North Carolina,
where he has taught at UNC since 1996.