In March the Glyndebourne Opera production of Jonathan Dove’s Flight played at the 2006 Adelaide Festival. Barely a week later a second Glyndebourne production presented by Opera Australia opened at the Sydney Opera House with further performances in Melbourne at the State Theatre.
Truck-Driving Soprano, Opera-Mad Husband Seek to Seduce London
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000088&sid=a1R8Z2KMycuw&refer=culture
Gˆtterd‰mmerungóRoyal Opera House, London
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/reviews/story/0,,1755870,00.html
Handel’s Oratorio ‘Solomon’ at Alice Tully Hall
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/18/arts/music/18solo.html
Acis and Galatea at NYCO
This season, the New York City Opera presents Handel’s Acis and Galatea. “When it comes to Handel, he not only lives but thrives at City Opera. Here Ovidís Metamorphoses is both the source and the inspiration for Acis and Galatea, one of Handelís most elegant and sensual works.” Here are two reviews.
Lawrence Brownlee: Lieder & Song Recital
A few years ago I picked up a buzz among those close to the Seattle Opera Young Artists’ Program that there would be a truly remarkable young tenor in the program’s production of La Cenerentola that year.
Samuel Barbers ÑVanessaì am Theater Altenburg-Gera
http://www.abg-info.de/dd/abg-info/index.php?idcatside=10&sid=98b7f9c0f3c12bd1551424aef7b6e58e&nid=946
Opera Pacific: These two are Verdi good
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/entertainment/homepage/article_1104588.php
Il Re Pastore, Linbury, ROH, London
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/reviews/article358152.ece