Navajo oratorio a triumph in Phoenix

A sound designer? Isnít that merely a euphemistic upgrade of ìsound engineer?î

Tosca at COC

An air of anticipation filled the Four Seasons Centre as the announcer walked across the stage to say that soprano Ester S¸megi was ill and would not be performing.

Tannh‰user at San Diego Opera

To open its 2008 season, San Diego Opera restored the production of Richard Wagner’s Tannh‰user that G¸nther Schneider-Siemsson created for the Metropolitan Opera three decades ago.

Interview with Canadian Mezzo-Soprano, Jean Stilwell, and pianist, Patti Loach

ìQuand je vous aimerais? Ma fois, je ne sais pas?î are Carmenís first words of seduction.

Grief and loathing in Lombardy

http://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/1202687701211300.xml&coll=7

Opera more dramatic in the seats

http://www.contracostatimes.com/relationships/ci_8229243

Bait & Switch

http://www.nysun.com/article/71087

Filling the Silence With Music

http://www.ladowntownnews.com/articles/2008/02/11/entertainment/entertainment01.txt

Sopranos step up in competition

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/arts/classicalmusic/5530057.html

Madam Butterfly at ENO

Anthony Minghella’s visually-arresting staging, a co-production with New York’s Metropolitan Opera and the Lithuanian National Opera, returned this month to its original home at the London Coliseum after a gap of two years.