Opera: Latest Features
Christmas Books: 22 December 2009 Paris Opening Night
at La Scala Just in time for the holidays, Joel Kasow
reviews the Teatro Alla Scala Foundation's luxury coffee table book,
Opening Night at La Scala.
CD Review: 13 December 2009 Paris Editor's CD
Review of Opera and Song Opera critic Joel Kasow reviews
recent and notable releases by Kate Royal, Véronique Gens, Inva Mula,
Violeta Urmana, Plácido Domingo, Roberto Alagna as well as a new
recordings of Thomas Adès' 'The Tempest', and Federico Ricci's 'Corrado
dAltamura'.
Comment: 4 October 2009 New
York A
Bumpy Night: Tosca at the Mets Opening Night Gala
Booing, boozing and schmoozing the evenings performance was
Tosca, but the real spectacle took place off stage.
Book Reviews: 25 September 2009 Paris Too Much, Too Little
or Too Late Joel Kasow on recent books about Wagner,
choral music and the opera.
News: 27 August 2009 Paris In Memoriam: Hildegard
Behrens (1937 - 2009) A latecomer to
Opera, Behrens threw herself into demanding roles with bravado, intensity
and true, raw talent.
CD and DVD Review: 13 July 2009 Paris Summer Listening: Editor's CD and
DVD Review of Opera and Song Opera critic Joel Kasow
weighs in on recent and notable releases from Europe, North America and
Australia.
Opera Review: 17 May 2009 Lyon,
France Sordid
Seductress: the Alarming Allure of Lulu Call her by any name, but
the astonishing Lulu , currently in a production by the Opéra
National de Lyon, is making an indelible mark on the standard opera
repertoire. Joel Kasow offers his review.
Opera eview Lyon, France Lyon Gambles on Las
Vegas Part of the Festival of Lost Heros, Prokofiev's 'The Gambler'
was shifted from mid-19th century Baden-Baden to contemporary Las Vegas
with an army of extras including three chambermaids who washed the windows
for a good ten minutes before the opera began," writes Joel Kasow from
Lyon, France.
News New York Brokeback
Mountain as Opera New York's City Opera has
commissioned American composer Charles Wuorinen to compose an opera based
on Annie Proulxs short story "Brokeback Mountain."
Opera Review New York Satyagraha:
Gandhi According to Philip Glass and the Metropolitan
Opera Aerialists, puppeteers and stilt walkers mark Philip Glass'
semi-narrative opera about Mahatma Gandhis early years in South Africa.
In Sanskrit.
Opera Review Berlin Henze's Phaedra: Radical
Composer Offers Few Surprises Unter den Linden German
composer Hans Werner Henze's new concert opera Phaedra about a
tormented queen infatuated with her stepson. Ciarán McAuley reviews the
world premiere in Berlin.
Archive Joel Kasow's Opera
Diary Last Update Reviews of Wagner's
Parsifal in Geneva, Ravel's L'Heure espagnole and
Puccini's Gianni Schicchi in Paris, Jean-Michel Damase's
L'Héritière in Marseilles and other European productions |