James Conlon has become the artistic heart and soul of Los Angeles Opera in his second season as music director.
Johann Sebastian Bach given a modern look, 260 years after portrait
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article3455630.ece
Sir David Attenborough faces green protests over operaís wind turbine
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3434427.ece
On Metís Grand Stage, Opera Singers of Tomorrow
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/arts/26audi.html?scp=6&sq=TOMMASINI&st=nyt
Johann Sebastian Bach. H-moll-Messe, BWV 232.
The large number of recordings of Bachís Mass in B minor predispose one to look for distinctions between them.
Cyrano at The Opera Company of Philadelphia
The Opera Company of Philadelphiaís February production is the second staging of David DiChieraís new opera Cyrano, a co-production with Michigan Opera Theater and Florida Grand Opera.
Miles Davis, Miles Smiles and the Invention of Post-Bop
It is a measure of the classic status that the music of Miles Davis has acquired in American culture that a single LP produced for Columbia in the 1960s (Miles Smiles) is the focus of a short monograph from Indiana University Press.
Short on the sides and Full On Top
Perhaps the most beloved comic opera, Rossiniís Il barbiËre di Siviglia has never left the repertoire.