http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2005/s1539160.htm
Rare Operatic Masterpiece Comes to the Historic Los Angeles Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/1/prweb327128.htm
A Self-Confident Diva With a Symphony Orchestra to Contend With
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/02/arts/music/02phil.html
HAYDN: Die Schˆpfung
Die Schˆpfung, Oratorium in drei Teilen
Music composed by Franz Joseph Haydn. Libretto by Gottfried van Swieten based on selections from the Book of Genesis and Paradise Lost by John Milton.
Il barbiere di Siviglia, Royal Opera House, London
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/reviews/article335724.ece
Washington Opera to Perform Wagner Series
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/30/ap/entertainment/mainD8EQENSG3.shtml
Berg’s Wozzeck at the Met ó Three Reviews
The Metropolitan Opera presents Wozzeck, Alban Berg’s “operatic version of B¸chnerís play about a soldier who subjects himself to medical experiments to augment his pay.” Here are two reviews.
Mario Del Monaco at the Bolshoi
Myto has the good sense to call a spade a spade. This is an issue exclusively meant for the Del Monaco-crowd and not for people wanting a Carmen or a Pagliacci. The set has one enormous quality: a brilliant natural sound that hides nothing and doesnít change the balance of the voices.
Macabre, magical and magnificent
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/12/29/bthans29.xml&sSheet=/arts/2005/12/29/ixartleft.html
A musical genius? No, Mozart was just a hard-working boy
With the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth just weeks away, the source of his brilliance is being disputed. Alice O’Keeffe reports