“Gypsies! Filthy, dirty, thieving gypsies!” cried Amy Sedaris as Jerri Blank from one delightful Strangers With Candy episode years back. For those who have experienced a forced ‘chance’ meeting with one of these colorful characters in say, Granada, Spain, they may have espoused a similar belief in recent years.
Renato Bruson — Live in Concert
One sign that a media market has really come into its own, economically speaking, is the appearance of items previously released in other formats, items that one struggles to imagine a wide market for. DVDs must be doing fairly well, then, in the classical market.
Heine and Schumann ó Wigmore Hall, London
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/reviews/story/0,,1801326,00.html
‘Angels in America,’ Already Operatic, Is Now Presented as an Opera
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/19/arts/music/19ange.html
An Arcadian setting where rarities flourish
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/60b6ae24-ff30-11da-84f3-0000779e2340.html
WAGNER: Der fliegende Holl‰nder
Der fliegende Holl‰nder. Romantic opera in 3 acts.
Music composed by Richard Wagner. Libretto by the composer.
HURWITZ: Exploring HaydnóA Listener’s Guide to Music’s Boldest Innovator
The world of J.S. Haydn is one gravely underappreciated and undervalued. He never earned the right to a 1980’s bio pic like Mozart or was appreciated and saluted in pop culture through early rock n’ roll like
Beethoven.
Blutrot die Segel, schwarz der Mast
http://www.diepresse.com/Artikel.aspx?channel=k&ressort=ke&id=565607