http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/reviews/story/0,11712,1578110,00.html
Plenty of Gallic grace, but a lack of passion
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/1295cebe-2b55-11da-995a-00000e2511c8.html
Damrau, soprano with big future, stars in Met debut
http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?Category=20&ID=244106&r=0
A Celebratory Crown of Froth Fit for a King
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/26/arts/music/26viag.html
BENNETT: The Mines of Sulphur
Glimmerglass Opera has been doing innovative and often remarkable work for a number of years. Thankfully, many of their productions have been shared with the New York City Opera and, thus, with a large opera-going public.
GLINKA: Ruslan and Lyudmila
Based on a tongue-in-cheek poem by young Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Glinkaís second opera Ruslan and Lyudmila (1842) is an epic adventure tale, in which three rival Russian knights roam the land in search of a Kievan princess kidnapped by a sorcerer.