Opera: Latest Features
Seen: 18 June 2009 New York The Metropolitan Opera Summer
HD Festival New Ten-Day Summer HD Festival features Screenings of
the Mets Live in HD Productions in Lincoln Center Plaza beginning 29
August.
Book Reviews: 28 May 2009 Paris Musical
Icons 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 Yorks 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 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
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