Glyndebourne opened this year’s festival with “a new production of Mozartís CosÏ fan tutte, subtitled ëThe school for loversí, will open the 2006 Festival. This masterpiece includes some of Mozartís most exquisite music, and CosÏís now established popularity, following comparative neglect in the 19th century, is partly due to Glyndebourneís championing of the work since the opening of the Festival in 1934.” Here are some initial reviews:
DONIZETTI: Poliuto
Poliuto, Tragedia lirica in three acts.
Music composed by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848). Libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, after the tragedy Polyeucte (1640) by Pierre Corneille.
Art Song Festival founder uses charm to bring in artists
http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/1148114069243910.xml&coll=2
Tolomeo, London Handel Festival, Britten Hall, London
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/reviews/article549631.ece
Placido Domingo ó Great Scenes
Domingo-fans probably have all complete performances from which these scenes were culled, as they were widely broadcast in Europe during the eighties.
ENO’s `Makropulos Case’ Has Mackerras, 337-Year-Old Heroine
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000088&sid=a.H4T_HzK11o&refer=culture
HALFFTER: Don Quijote
I can’t imagine a more utopian enterprise for a composer than writing an opera at the end of the twentieth century.
Urge.com and Online Classical (Whatever That Is)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/19/arts/music/19urge.html