http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/artsentertainment/2002742808_opera16.html
Schumann Rarity: An Opera of Bits and Pieces of ‘Faust’
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/16/arts/music/16faus.html
MOZART: La clemenza di Tito
La clemenza di Tito. Opera seria in due atti (K. 621).
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Libretto by Caterino Mazzol‡ based on a text by Pietro Metastasio.
Lyric hopes to lift curse with restaged ‘Rigoletto’
http://www.suntimes.com/output/delacoma/sho-sunday-rig15.html
Everyone’s Invited to Wolfgang’s Party, Willing or Not
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/arts/music/15holl.html
Army Helps DNA Scientists Unravel Mozart Mystery
http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,85019,00.html
Berlin Opera Night
At 73 minutes, this DVD of the typical gala affair ñ various soloists trot on, sing an aria, then trot off ñ canít be called generous, but it does have variety.
MASSENET: Werther
When you and I were young Maggie, there was only the fine Werther with Thill and Vallin and the Cetra recording with Tagliavini and his first wife, Pia Tassinari.
SCHEIDT: Ludi musici I, II, III & IV
I suspect that when we survey the musical landscape of the early seventeenth century, it is opera, monody, and madrigal that come most quickly and lastingly into view, and given the contemporaneous attention given to the relationship between music and word, it is unsurprising that this would be the case.