Connoisseurs of pretentious booklet essay verbiage will delight in the prose style of Matthias Kellerin his musings for this EuroArts DVD of Ennio Morricone conducting his film scores with the Munich radio orchestra.
“Gekˆpft, gehangen, gespieflt auf Stangen” Reinsberg. Mozarts “Entf¸hrung” in der Burgarena.
http://www.diepresse.com/Artikel.aspx?channel=k&ressort=ke&id=575533
Strong Tempest at Santa Fe
The news from Santa Fe Opera last week-end is good, unexpectedly so. The British composer Thomas Ades’ new (2004) opera, a riff on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, has been rumored hard to perform and harder to hear.
Patrizia Ciofi embrase Orange
http://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/20060731.FIG000000024_patrizia_ciofi_embrase_orange.html
PONCHIELLI: La Gioconda
La Gioconda, dramma lirico in four acts.
Music composed by Amilcare Ponchielli (1834–1886). Libretto by Arrigo Boito (under the pseudonym Tobia Gorrio), based upon Victor Hugo’s
Angelo, Tyrant of Padua (1835).
Daniel Harding: Conducting his life with brio
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/reviews/story/0,,1833325,00.html