Khachaturian was one of the few Soviet composers of the Stalin regime to overcome his public demotion in 1948. Even though he was removed from his job and his works disappeared from the theatres, Khachaturian moved to the world of film music and waited for the storm to blow over.
A Classical Star’s Frequent Cancellations Raise Concern
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/09/arts/music/09hunt.html
Il diluvio universale, Theatre Royal, London
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/b6f4187a-50c7-11da-bbd7-0000779e2340.html
From the Opera Company, a ‘Barber’ to bravo
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/magazine/daily/13108161.htm
Manon, Royal Opera House, London (Royal Ballet)
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/theatre/reviews/article325607.ece
Hear My Prayer
This anthology, a twentieth-anniversary commemoration of Aled Jonesí first recording for the Welsh company, Sain, is a re-issue of that 1983 recording, ìDiolch ‚ Ch‚n,î along with several other tracks from the mid-1980ís. Jones stepped out of the choir stalls at Bangor Cathedral to become a highly marketed treble, and his relative celebrity, as attested here, was well deserved.
Glossy triumph of empty style
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/11/07/bmbutterfly07.xml&sSheet=/arts/2005/11/07/ixartleft.html
Madam Butterfly at Coliseum, London
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/reviews/story/0,11712,1635732,00.html