Los Angeles Opera: March 1 & 2, 2008

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

JOMMELLI: Fetonte

Fetonte: Dramma per musica in three acts.

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.

Peter Grimes by Opera North

Opera North is one of the most innovative opera companies in Britain.

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.