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
d’Altamura'.
Comment: 4 October 2009
New
York
A
Bumpy Night: Tosca at the Met’s Opening Night Gala
Booing, boozing and schmoozing — the evening’s 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 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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