This substantial book is one of the latest in the Ashgate series of
collected essays in opera studies and draws together articles from a disparate
group of scholarly journals and collected volumes, some recent, some now
difficult to locate. Glorious sunshine for Glyndebourne Opera’ Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg on the eve of Richard Wagner's birthday.http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/8607a222-8555-11e0-ae32-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1NOxzuRP1André-Modeste Grétry, the greatest opera composer ever to come from Belgium, made his way to Paris in 1767 at the age of 26. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/classical-beat/post/zambello-to-wno---as-advisor/2011/05/25/AGPvsGBH_blog.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/arts/music/city-opera-move-is-still-hazy-but-rife-with-potential.html?_r=1&ref=musicPilgrimages, I suspect, derive a degree of their fruitfulness from the slowness of the journey, a pace born of desire or necessity, that removes the journey from the quotidian, brings the purpose into greater focus, and allows for a richer savoring of the experience.Before a single track has been heard, Jordi Savall’s The Forgotten Kingdom impresses with its scale: a three-CD set packaged in a lavish, bound book that contains fifty dense pages of English commentary by nine different authors; adding the multiple translations, beautiful illustrations, and song texts, the book itself luxuriantly sprawls over 500 pages.
You would have had to be deaf and blind — or perhaps just a very wise
monkey — not to have been aware that a young American composer called
Nico Muhly was about to open at the English National Opera in London last night
with a work called Two Boys. 
This Madama Butterfly at the Royal Opera House, London, brings out
the depth and intelligence of the human story Puccini might be trying to tell
us, beneath the surface gloss.
The Boston Early Music Festival (hereinafter BEMF) has grown up. Luca Pisaroni is one of one the more exciting young bass-baritones of his
generation. In July 2011, he sings Argante in the first ever Handel Rinaldo at
the Glyndebourne Festival.
As it turned out, it was a mild and mainly dry evening. 
This is the one by Giorgio Strehler that opened at Versailles in 1973 and since has endured twenty-three incarnations, first at the Garnier and later at the Bastille. Think verismo and one imagines melodramatic, often violent plots which peer unflinchingly into the soul of every character. It’ easy to slip into platitudes when eulogising the last London
recital performance of a singer commonly lauded as the outstanding countertenor
of his generation. It can be fascinating, although not necessarily pleasant, to see oneself through the eyes of others.One of Richard Wagner’ most enduring contributions to music history is a concept known as gesamtkunstwerk. 
The current Tosca at the Royal Opera House is something of a classic, revived four times in five years. It’ now being filmed for cinema to be released in November 2011.http://www.lefigaro.fr/musique/2011/06/03/03006-20110603ARTFIG00404-jordi-savall-le-maitre-de-musique.phphttp://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/06/07/DDS21JQ89F.DTL&type=performancehttp://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/f8ee5d70-92f8-11e0-9ba7-00144feab49a.html#axzz1Otdb2Uczhttp://houston.broadwayworld.com/article/Houston-Grand-Opera-Announces-New-Leadership-20110525
John Fulljames has been appointed Associate Director for Opera at the Royal Opera House. 
Israel Opera’ summer festival grew astonishingly in the year following its 2010 inaugural season. 
Will Crutchfield made his name as a writer and musicologist in the mid-1980s, becoming the youngest music critic in the history of The New York Times. 
The U.S. premiere of Hans Werner Henze’ Phaedra at the Opera Company of Philadelphia may well be the most important and ambitious new work presented by any American company this season.http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/c4799c7e-9769-11e0-af13-00144feab49a.html#axzz1PN2rygwk
Phyllida Lloyd’ reading of Verdi’ Macbeth –
first seen in 2002 and here revived for the second time – could certainly
not be described as ‘ubtle’ either dramatically or visually.
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