http://www.budapestsun.com/full_story.asp?ArticleId=%7B2F05BCA6EA4E4A6ABC5B9D712489F570%7D&From=Style
Sensitive autocrat in a season of content
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17580597%255E16947,00.html
The Dream of Gerontius ó Barbican, London
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/reviews/story/0,11712,1667677,00.html
Rigoletto at the Met ó Three Reviews
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: Verdi considered Victor Hugoís play Le Roi síamuse ìone of the greatest creations of the modern theatreî, and jumped at the opportunity to adapt it for Venice in 1851.
Sherrill Milnes – An All Star Gala
The former TV-producer in me tells me the following conversation took place between producer and director (in German as this is a GDR (East-Germany) product).
Divas and dabblers ó The lesson of the crisis in English opera is that we have to overhaul how the arts are governed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1666756,00.html
Stravinsky in San Francisco ó Two Reviews
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: The San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas present two semi-staged theatrical performances: a double-bill featuring Stravinsky’s rarely heard operas The Nightingale and Oedipus Rex.