http://www.nysun.com/article/69271
Simon Keenlyside, Wigmore Hall, London
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/7f976a24-bfa3-11dc-8052-0000779fd2ac.html
Opera Manager Joan Ingpen Dies at 91
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iz_De0NUsuiZsjxUrtH-rsyv-vLgD8U2EOU00
Maazel at the Met, Br¸nnhilde in a Bind
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/arts/music/09walk.html?_r=1&ref=music&oref=slogin
ROUSSEAU: Le Devin du Village
This is a valuable new recording of a work that is only rarely heard, but was widely influential and wildly popular during the eighteenth century. Philosophe Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote both the libretto and the music, with mixed success.
Les …lÈmens
This disc is well worth the price for the first track alone: the opening measures of Jean-FÈry Rebelís ìCahos,î (Chaos), written in 1737 or 1738, may cause you to wonder if you accidentally left a Stockhausen or Ligeti disc in the changer.
Oppenheimer opera charts new course in music
In this country art and politics are rarely bedfellows — strange or otherwise; indeed, it’s seldom that the two meet under the same roof.
Hansel and Gretel, Metropolitan Opera, New York
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/001e30ec-b86a-11dc-893b-0000779fd2ac.html
IphigÈnie en Tauride at the Met
Regarded, until the modern vogue for earlier masters, as the senior surviving grand master of opera, Gluck never quite becomes fashionable and never quite vanishes.
Prokofiev’s War and Peace at the Met
There is no middle ground in War and Peace ó or, rather, itís all middle ground, like a battlefield, and you may feel as if every soldier in Russia (and in France) has marched over you.