7 de setembro de 2008

OPERA NEWS - SETEMBRO 2008

Hot Tickets
A preview of the coming season’s most eagerly awaited events.
Her Favorite Year

This season at the Met, Renée Fleming will sing two of her favorite roles — Thaïs and Rusalka — and star in the company's opening-night gala. America's favorite soprano talks to F. PAUL DRISCOLL about the year she calls "one of the high points of my career."
Amazing Grace

No honking and screaming for Lawrence Brownlee, who has forged a major career by singing with consummate ease. JAMES C. WHITSON visits with the bel canto stylist extraordinaire.
Good Humor Man

Online Exclusive Mark Campbell talks to ADAM WASSERMAN about the seemingly forgotten art of crafting a comic-opera libretto.
The Craftsman

Los Angeles Opera's new Il Trittico features the company return of Oscar-winning director William Friedkin, who relishes working in an art form he loves. BRIAN KELLOW reports.
Buzzworthy

Los Angeles Opera gears up for the U.S. premiere of The Fly, by Howard Shore and David Henry Hwang. WILLIAM V. MADISON is intrigued.
Ghost Story

This month, San Francisco Opera unveils The Bonesetter's Daughter, Stewart Wallace and Amy Tan's adaptation of Tan's haunting novel. JANET A. CHOI raises the curtain.
Say What You Feel

Marin Alsop's October 24 performance of Leonard Bernstein's Mass is one of the most eagerly-awaited events in Carnegie Hall's ninetieth-birthday tribute to the late master. Composer NICO MUHLY dashes off some notes on Bernstein's once-controversially populist 1971 work.
Over the Borderline

MICHAEL PORTANTIERE asks seven top Broadway composers about their thoughts on opera.


Why isn't baritone Laurent Naouri better known? WILLIAM V. MADISON explains.

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