This is a very attractive book, which, in addition to the expected text, has many striking photos, a list of the operas performed in Chicago, indicating all the seasons in which each work was given, and a season by season chronology, limited to professional companies.
A ‘King,’ a ‘Messiah’ and a conductor
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/17/PKGI4KVHTU1.DTL&type=performance
He had his dark, anguished side – but he loved women and vodka too
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1874136,00.html
Runnicles won’t renew contract with S.F. Opera
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/16/DDGJOL63271.DTL
ASHLEY: Perfect Lives; Celestial Excursions; Foreign Experiences
Robert Ashley has the uncanny ability to sprinkle diamonds amidst great swaths of apparently trivial and quotidian detritus–diamonds that trigger the nervous system in an intensely stimulating fashion.
Paris’s Art-Deco Salle Pleyel Opens After Four-Year Restoration
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aL1Yp5cJKYBI&refer=muse
Un ballo in maschera, San Francisco
(Photo by Terrence McCarthy) By Allan Ulrich [Financial Times, 11 September 2006] Regime change in operatic duchies is never smooth, but need it always look and sound so wrenching? The…