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Seen: 18 June 2009
New York
The Metropolitan Opera Summer
HD Festival
New Ten-Day Summer HD Festival features Screenings of
the Met’s Live in HD Productions in Lincoln Center Plaza beginning 29
August.
Book Reviews: 28 May 2009
Paris
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The Summer Reading Season kicks off with new and recent books
devoted to opera legends Franco Corelli and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, as well
as an autobiographical memoir by conductor Zubin Mehta.
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.
CD Review: 15 April 2009
Paris
High Notes: Editor's CD Review of
Opera and Song
Opera critic Joel Kasow weighs in on the latest
opera and vocal CDs.
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.
CD and DVD
Review
Paris
Fresh and Familiar Voices: New
Recordings for a New Year
Serendipity brings a pastiche of
recordings to the attention of our Joel Kasow, freshly back from
sabbatical. His picks and recommendations are like a postcard from an old
friend.
Comment
New
York
Gala Glitters as
Wall Streeet Shatters
At the Metropolitan Opera's Opening Night
Gala, investment bankers, hedge-fund managers and other financial types
who form the cutting edge of New York’s boom-times economy appear to be
wondering if the fat lady has finally sung.
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 Proulx’s
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 Gandhi’s 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.
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