The first thing I saw when I opened the La Scala DVD was a notice on the back that track 5 plays ìVa! Pensiero da: I vespri siciliani (1855).î One wonders if there is nobody at the La Scala Bookshop who has at least a bit of knowledge of one of the most popular pieces in the operatic repertoire that served Italy for more than hundred years as an unofficial anthem ó the Venice DVD has it right, of course.
BERLIOZ: La damnation de Faust
La damnation de Faust, LÈgende dramatique en quatre parties
Music composed by Hector Berlioz. Libretto by Hector Berlioz, Almire GandonaniËre and GÈrard de Nerval after Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Great News! It’s the Dawning of the Atomic Age
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/25/arts/music/25tomm.html
Review 2005: opera
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/12/24/btopera24.xml&sSheet=/arts/2005/12/24/ixartleft.html
JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU: THE SORCERER OF THE STAGE
http://www.goldbergweb.com/en/magazine/composers/2004/06/23332.php
Tragic Indeed ó An American Tragedy is yet another contemporary-opera-by-the-numbers rehash
http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/arts/music/classical/reviews/15333/index.html