http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000088&sid=ajlFCnYWpCGE&refer=culture
The Mines of Sulphur, New York City Opera
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/8f2081e6-45bc-11da-981b-00000e2511c8.html
When a Sex Slave Makes Her Escape, Revenge Is in the Supernatural Air
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/25/arts/music/25mine.html
Loud and clear ó Yvonne Kenny wants to break down barriers between the “amplified” generation and opera lovers
http://www.theage.com.au/news/arts/loud-and-clear/2005/10/25/1130006116013.html
Opera babes ó Glyndebourne is reaching out to twentysomethings with its new operatic thriller Tangier Tattoo. What did post-punk rockers the Suffrajets make of it?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1599804,00.html
Before being put to death, Norma would like to say a few words — and sing her heart out
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/10/25/DDGHTFCHCP1.DTL
Opera Company unmasks a ‘Ballo’ in excellent voice
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/magazine/daily/12988485.htm
PUCCINI: Tosca
Tosca, a melodrama in three acts
Giacomo Puccini, composer. Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on the play La Tosca by Victorien Sardou.
First performance: 14 January 1900 at Teatro Costanzi, Rome
King Arthur – the first musical?
Reviewing this DVD recording of Purcellís music-drama ìKing Arthurî from the 2004 Salzburg Festival was both a pleasure and a pain. The pleasure came from the intense, contagious sense of sheer fun that illuminates this production by Jurgen Flimm and Nikolaus Harnoncourt from start to finish.