http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/05/AR2006100500306.html
San Francisco Opera Launches Podcasting Venture With Deborah Voigt Interview
http://www.playbillarts.com/news/article/5343.html
Rare Scarlatti Oratorio Resuscitated in Florence
http://www.musicalamerica.com/news/newsstory.cfm?archived=0&storyid=14692&categoryid=4&cookies=1
The Psalms of David
The daily Anglican liturgies of Morning and Evening Prayer feature the recitation of the complete Psalter (apportioned in a monthly cycle), and in cathedrals and collegiate chapels, the chanting of the psalms has been cultivated to a degree of great refinement and beauty.
Lyric’s ‘Iphigenie’ a stark, psychological drama
http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/reviews/critics/mmx-g652e0h4d.7oct01,1,4302448.story
Pratolino, Venice, Mantua: Musings on Vivaldi’s Tito Manlio
Tito Manlio, Vivaldi’s second opera in Mantua for the 1718/19 season, is fraught with political and familial tensions.1
VIVALDI: Tito Manlio
Tito Manlio (Titus Manlius), dramma per musica in 3 acts. Music composed by Antonio Vivaldi (1678ñ1741) based on a libretto by Matteo Noris (? ñ 1714).
Pairing and Elaboration
The character configuration in Vivaldi’s Tito Manlio is unusual because of its musical pairing of the prima donna Servilia with the seconda donna Vitellia not just once, but twice in the second act of the opera.