http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/07/news/sp-ope19-01.php
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
Why Shouldn’t Men Sing Romantic Drivel, Too?
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/06/arts/music/06gure.html
La Forza del Destino War Memorial, San Francisco
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/4f790524-4f33-11da-9947-0000779e2340.html
Madam Butterfly English National Opera London
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/19d06fb6-4f33-11da-9947-0000779e2340.html