Nemox Dell'opera
Civic Center (Free subscription) | yesterday
The San Francisco Opera Company opened its 86th season on Friday night with Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra" and a line of valet parkers on Van Ness... ...who were actually running to their proffered vehicles. "Simon Boccanegra" is probably my favorite Verdi opera, along with "Don Carlo." Both operas are heavily involved in questions of politics, ethics, and the intersection of the personal and the public....
The Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
Scottish Opera’s solution to the challenge it faced in deciding to stage Lehar’s operetta, The Merry Widow, in one of its small-scale touring productions, is ingenious but irritating.
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | yesterday
The smash-hit Broadway production of Rent officially plays its last performance this weekend, but the show, which was based on Puccini's La Boheme, has a chance to live on just as the opera has. "Just as Puccini's opera would fall flat were the music not so impassioned and savvy, Rent would not be so powerful if Mr. Larson's score were not so rich and emotionally honest."...
Music and Vision (Free subscription) | yesterday
Verdi: Rigoletto; Dublin, IE - Sunday 7 September 2008
The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
It was, as my companion put it, classical music's answer to a Barry White album: a programme celebrating carnal desire in all its shuddering, sighing, yearning, yelping, convulsive ecstasy. From the first bold connect of Wagner's Prelude to Tristan und Isolde, through the luxuriant ache of the Liebestod, and on to the celestial dances, starlit arias and interplanetary whoops of Messiaen's Turangalila...
Forest Murmurs (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Last week Fr Briggs and I ventured north of the border for four days, two in Edinburgh and two at St Andrews. We went to a couple of concerts and an opera (Szymanowski`s King Roger) at the Festival and then headed off to Fife. At the first concert we had the good fortune to run into Fr Andrew Southwell, who is well-known in traditionalist circles. I said we were planning to visit Falkland Palace on...
Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
The problem with reading The Rest Is Noise by New Yorker music critic Alex Ross is the constant trips to the piano to try'? out such things as his description of Strauss’s five-note, crazy “Salome chord.” But where else are you going to find such a goldmine of knowledge and lore about 20th-century music? It’s [...]
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Washington National Opera has announced that it will air a live simulcast of its production of La Traviata on the state-of-the-art Jumbotron at Nationals Park. "Beer and hot dogs will be served. Admission is free."...
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
ON Monday , you’ll be able to recline in style at Fact for a live, screened performance of Mozart’s Don Giovanni from London’s Royal Opera House.
Anna Netrebko (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Anna Netrebko 's first performance after giving birth to her first child will be at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg singing the title role of Donizetti 's Lucia di Lammermoor. Two performances on 14. and 17. January 2009 have been scheduled on her brand new redesigned website, prior to her role debut as Lucia at the MET on 26. January 2009.
The Rehearsal Studio (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
In preparing my listening skills for the opening of Giuseppe Verdi 's Simon Boccanegra to launch the new San Francisco Opera season, I stumbled across a "family resemblance" that struck me as too good to be accidental. In the second scene of the first act, a crowd of angry protesters gathered in the street outside the Ducal palace bursts into the council chamber; and, for the life of me, I could swear...
TechConnect Magazine (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Walton Chaintech has just expanded its product line-up so as to include a full range of industrial-grade solid state drives. All bearing the Apogee name, the SSDs come in 1.8-inch (IDE, Micro SATA and SATA) and 2.5-inch (IDE and SATA 3.0 Gbps) form factors, have a MTBF (mean time before failure) of 2 million hours and make use of SLC (single-level cell) NAND flash chips. Also featuring built-in Error...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Two half sisters, daughters of the same father by different mothers, who have hardly ever met, are joined in an unexpected twist of fate: It's a familiar plot line at the Wagner opera festival at Bayreuth, Germany. On stage, it applies to Wotan's daughters Sieglinde, the mother of Siegfried, and...
Power Line Forum (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
DOB 09/01/1935 [youtube]9Eg5NjuW5Wo[/youtube] Johann Strauss II “Die Fledermaus” Ouverture - Seiji Ozawa I hope your computer has a good sound system. This is FANtastic! .
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
in post BACK TO BASIS (Part 12) from THE VINYL VILLAIN .
