http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000088&sid=a.rbx1gXlj2s&refer=culture#
BELLINI: I puritani
I puritani, opera seria in three acts
Music composed by Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835). Libretto by Carlo Pepoli from TÍtes rondes et Cavaliers (1833) by Jacques Ancelot and Xavier Saintine.
Tristan und Isolde, Staatsoper unter den Linden, Berlin
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/80cf7a82-d08d-11da-b160-0000779e2340.html
Placido Domingo: A new success under his nose
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/article359020.ece
An alluring, narcotic Wagner
http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/arts/ny-etlohen4707479apr20,0,5267226.story?coll=ny-arts-headlines
MASCAGNI: In Filanda
Last year was the 60th anniversary of Mascagni’s death. When I wrote a big commemoration article for a Dutch operatic magazine, I wondered if we would ever hear a full version of the 18-year old Mascagni’s first work: a cantata called “in the weaving mill.”
BRITTEN: Death in Venice
Even if this recording were a failure (which it isn’t), it is indispensable on account of its inclusion of about 90 seconds of music not present in the only other studio recording.
Alex Ross on Adriana Mater
A new opera from the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho.