GLUCK: Alceste

Alceste. Tragedia in three acts (Italian version).

Alceste. TragÈdie opÈra in three acts (French version).

Glyndebourne Season Features Strange Rituals, Bollywood Handel

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000088&sid=aWNbMX67lbXI&refer=culture

At times you have to behave operatically

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/c373f564-e5c0-11da-b309-0000779e2340.html

Missing Opera’s Lost Generation of Stars at a Gala for Volpe

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/18/arts/music/18sing.html

PETRELLA: Jone

Jone is the only Italian opera from the 1850s by a composer other than Giuseppe Verdi to make it into the standard repertory for a period of well over 50 years, lasting until the onset of World War I before eventually disappearing.

CHARPENTIER: Te Deum and Grand Office des Morts

In the modern performance of seventeenth-century French music, the ensemble Les Arts Florissants holds a special place, both for its longevity and the striking stylistic fluency it brings to performances — performances that have come to define our very sense of French Baroque style.

Deborah Voigt and RenÈe Fleming vs. the Ghosts of Met Divas Past

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/17/arts/music/17voig.html

Earthy ‘Parsifal’ is fresh and fine

http://www.newsday.com/features/printedition/ny-etledew4743495may17,0,342816.story

FAUR…: The Complete Songs 4

Dans un parfum de roses (“Within the scent of roses”), is the fourth and final volume of the Complete Songs of Gabriel FaurÈ issued by Hyperion.

What Happened To the Orchestra?

http://www.nysun.com/article/32795