On June 9th in Sofia and 16th at the Varna Summer Festival, celebrated soprano Krassimira Stoyanova made her Richard Strauss debut in Vier letzte Lieder in her native Bulgaria.
GLUCK: Orfeo ed Euridice
All the excitement and activity in the classical recording company world now seems to be in the budget area.
Gypsy Melodies
“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
“Castrato” ó In Search of a Lost Voice
Nestling artistically in a bowl, carefully arranged and lit to suit the camera early in the programme, the testicles seemed to glow softly with their hidden history, their inherent potential and, now, their very lack of future.