http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/05/arts/05moza.html
Metropolitan Opera, in Tight Times, Receives Record Gift of $25 Million
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/05/arts/music/05met.html
RÈgine Crespin: Wagner and Berlioz Opera Arias
For those who want to possess every single TV appearance of RÈgine Crespin, this issue will not suffice. Only four items of the EMI DVD devoted to the soprano are to be found on the short DVD that is included with this CD.
CATALANI: La Falce
Although nothing is mentioned on the cover of the CD, I think this is the first official recording of the opera even if there are some pirates doing the rounds of the collectors (my copy is a Buenos Aires pirate). So this is not an unimportant issue of Catalaniís first opera.
L’Elisir d’Amore at the Met ó Three Reviews
http://www.operatoday.com/content/2006/01/a_homegrown_col.php
L’Elisir d’Amore at the Met ó Three Reviews
The Metropolitan Opera presented Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore (The Elixir of Love), which “tells of the peasant Nemorino who decides to take some magic elixir sold to him by a quack doctor, so that he can win the heart of a wealthy land-owner, who (to spite Nemorino) has announced her marriage to a sergeant.” Here are three reviews:
Scientists May Have Found Mozart’s Skull
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060103/ap_on_sc/austria_mozart_s_skull
Jonathan Lemalu: Love Blows as the Wind Blows
If one should believe British critics, especially English ones, Jonathan Lemalu is a major new bass; one of the greatest talents around whose qualities are widely proven by the fact this is already his third solo CD in a short time.