http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/stage/ny-etsecw4464612oct12,0,4424443.story?coll=ny-theater-headlines
PellÈas et MÈlisande in Glasgow
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/reviews/story/0,11712,1589079,00.html
The Barber of Seville at Millennium Centre, Cardiff
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/reviews/story/0,11712,1589081,00.html
Ariane et Barbe-bleue, State Theater, New York
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/3f068298-39f3-11da-806e-00000e2511c8.html
OFFENBACH: Les FÈes du Rhin (Die Rheinnixen)
The genre of grand opera is not traditionally associated with Jacques Offenbachís posthumous reputation. Yet as demonstrated by the performances documented in the present recording and essays in the accompanying notes, a revision of our assessment of Offenbachís strengths is long overdue.
Puccini’s Familiar Tale, but Peering Into the Dark Future
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/11/arts/music/11tosc.html
TCHAIKOVSKY: The Queen of Spades
The Queen of Spades (Pique Dame), an opera in three acts.
Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky, composer. Modest Tchaikovsky and composer, librettists.
First performance: 19 December 1890 at the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg.
The Operatic Pushkin
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin (1799-1837) is generally considered Russiaís greatest poet. According to Andrew Kahn, his contemporaries held him ìabove all the master of the lyric poem, verse that is famous for its formal perfection and its reticent lyric persona, and infamous for its resistance to translation.î [Alexander Pushkin, The Queen of Spades and Other Stories, trans. Alan Myers, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1997]