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.
The Karajan CollectionóWagner Orchestral Music
ìDas Wunder Karajanî ñ ìthe miracle of Karajanî ñ is a phrase associated with the conductor since he was thirty years old, and that phrase holds true in his recorded legacy. In addition to recent DVD releases, EMI has issued a series of CDs in its ìThe Karajan Collection,î which preserves many fine studio recordings.