Music Review 'Entführung aus dem Serail'
Pasha & Co. in Mozart’s Singspiel
By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER
A strong cast largely compensated for any deficiencies of the staging at the Metropolitan Opera.
Music Review Bryn Terfel
Songs and Poems Extoll a Green and Pleasant Land
By BERNARD HOLLAND
Bryn Terfel’s recital described the wave of nostalgia that swept across Edwardian music.
Independent Sun, 27 Apr 2008 4:38 PM PDT
The Royal Ballet's latest programme sandwiches a baffling dramatic work between two displays of dancing. Kim Brandstrup's new work is called Rushes: Fragments of a Lost Story, so perhaps it's churlish to complain that this fractured story is confusing. The real trouble is that it lacks drama. Confrontations are blurred, emotions vague.
All About Jazz Mon, 28 Apr 2008 5:34 AM PDT
Rock/pop artist David Yazbek has confirmed that Metropolitan Opera star Lauren Flanigan has been added to his May 22nd Benefit Concert for Riverspace and Riverkeeper. Yazbek's other special guests for the evening will be singer-songwriter Nellie McKay and Tony Award Winner Norbert Leo Butz.
1010 WINS New York Mon, 28 Apr 2008 6:05 AM PDT
New York City is expanding a welcome campaign for foreign travelers with more insider tips from celebrities and local experts. Metropolitan Opera general manager Peter Gelb, MTV fashion VJ Coltrane Curtis and musician Itzhak Perlman are among the famous New Yorkers that have joined the effort.
The New York Sun Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:22 PM PDT
In the course of his brief years, Mozart wrote an opera called "The Abduction from the Seraglio" - a delightful thing. And it received a delightful performance at the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday night. This is one of Mozart's "Turkish" operas, and one of his "rescue" operas: European voyagers are captured by pirates and sold to the Pasha Selim; brave men attempt to rescue their fair maidens. ...
AP via Yahoo! Malaysia News Sun, 27 Apr 2008 3:01 PM PDT
Two lovers who are separated by fate but remain true to one another. Show-stopping arias filled with coloratura ornamentation. Plenty of high notes. Lots of slapstick comedy. And, of course, a happy ending. All that was on display Saturday not once but twice at the Metropolitan Opera. First the matinee audience was treated to Natalie Dessay and Juan Diego Florez in the ...
Deccan Herald Sun, 27 Apr 2008 1:25 PM PDT'
Could an opera make us warriors for peace? Could an opera make us stand up for the truth?' Patrick Cole writes about a Metropolitan Opera in New York - Satyagraha - aimed at promoting Gandhian principles at a time rife with war and conflicts.
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