Arnold Schoenberg’ Gurrelieder is conceived as cosmic panorama. King Waldemar curses God and is himself cursed, doomed to ride the skies forever, inspiring awe and horror. http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/09/new_attendance_.phpThe recently released numbers for the past season at Barcelona’s opera Liceu gives some hope for the future. Effective July 30, Cassidy E. Fitzpatrick will be the new artistic administrator of Florida Grand Opera. a position open since the dismissal of Kelly Anderson last year.http://thesingersappetite.com/ 
Four Rigolettos in nine days (for this critic), of twelve Rigolettos in 24 days (are these world records?).http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/08/another_bayreut.php
Not about tattoo art, not an evocation of the Holocast, and let us not even try to put our finger on what it is about.Ian Bostridge’s thought-provoking ‘Ancient and Modern’ project at the
Wigmore Hall is drawing to a close and this penultimate instalment brought
together Renaissance sensuality and Neo-classical restraint in a meticulously
executed performance. Surrealist fantasy with wit and style! L'heure espagnole and L'enfant et les sortilèges, the Ravel Double Bill at Glyndebourne, mixes charm, intelligence and nightmare.
It is difficult to speak with excessive enthusiasm of the programming of a Salzburg Festival that included both Carmen and La bohème, though it would subsequently be redeemed in part by a staging of Die Soldaten. http://www.welt.de/kultur/musik/article108680314/Ich-kann-mir-keine-deutschen-Saetze-merken.htmlhttp://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/07/changes_at_flor.phpA record 278,978 people attended events of the 2012 edition of the famed Salzburg Festival in Austria, the largest number since its founding 92 years ago.http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/arts/music/debussys-150th-birthday-gets-little-notice.html?_r=1&ref=musicThe massed forces of the 600+ singers and players assembled for this exciting performance of Berlioz’s gargantuan Requiem (Grande messe des morts) made for an impressive visual spectacle in the vast high Victorian Royal Albert Hall. 21st-century opera played on period instruments; a ‘drama-less’ opera; a Dali-esque crimson chaise longue, stranded on the platform of the Royal Albert Hall. Michael Tilson Thomas’s recording of Mahler’s Third Symphony is an outstanding contribution to the composer’s discography. The Edinburgh International Festival, in partnership with Opera North, presented Janáček’ The Makropulos Case at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre.This was unquestionably the best all-round performance I have yet seen from Opera Holland Park, staging and musical performances alike often putting august metropolitan houses from around the world to shame. Seriousness, elegance and insight characterised this recital of nineteenth-century German song in which Christoph Prégardien and his accompanist, Julius Drake, conducted a moving musical dialogue, perfectly matching each other in the depiction of unbending obsession and unfulfilled aspiration.The Royal Opera House’s Jette Parker Young Artists programme is celebrating the 10th anniversary of their annual Summer Performance. 
Elijah Moshinsky’s Otello, first seen at Covent Garden in 1987,
and revived numerous times with a range of stellar casts, may be traditional
and conservative, even — excepting the thunderous opening storm scene —
somewhat uninventive; 
Ciro in Babilonia Matilda di Shaban and Il signor Bruschino in Rossini land.
What concerto did you audition with? Haydn: Concerto for Cello in D major What is your favorite restaurant in SLC? My kitchen How many years have you been playing your instrument? 34 years What is your favorite quote? “Gratitude is Heaven itself.” – William Blake. I think he meant it literally. Goes along with Jesus’ [...]
This week I’m excited to introduce our new Principal Flute, Mercedes Smith! What concerto did you audition with? Mozart G Major, but in the final round we were also asked to play Syrinx for flute alone by Debussy, which is one of my all-time favorites. What is your favorite restaurant in SLC? Rose Establishment How many years [...]