http://www.ocregister.com/entertainment/music-ullmann-opera-1982435-one-director
Anna Christy Triumphs in Lucia di Lammermoor at ENO
ENO doesnít really go in for bel canto opera. Other than a Maria Stuarda back in the mid 1990s, the only Donizetti opera in the companyís repertoire in the recent past has been the popular Líelisir díamore.
Der fliegende Holl‰nder, Stuttgart Staatsoper
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/668a3bc2-da4e-11dc-9bb9-0000779fd2ac.html
Susan Graham; Wigmore Hall
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/live_reviews/article3357607.ece
SALIERI: Prima la musica e poi le parole
In 1786, Habsburg Emperor Joseph II commissioned a pair of short operas from two of the biggest names in Viennese musical theater: Salieri and Mozart.
ENO’s The Mikado
Director Jonathan Miller was there at the curtain call to greet the first night of this latest revival of a production which has now been in ENO’s repertoire for twenty years.
LA Opera: Tristan und Isolde
My Valentine’s Day gift came a bit early courtesy of Los Angeles Opera. Of course, it is to be hoped that your own celebration has a happier outcome than that of opera’s most famous Love Couple, “Tristan und Isolde.”
Rodelinda at Portland
Valentine’s Day may not quite be in the same major holiday league with the Fourth of July or New Year’s Eve, but you wouldn’t have known it from the fireworks emanating from the stage of Portland Opera, in the form of some dazzling Valentine’s night vocalizing in quite a fine production of Handel’s “Rodelinda.”