Links for 2008-07-18 [del.icio.us]

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The Standing Room | 07/19/08 5:48

Old First Concerts - Sarah Cahill Fri 7/18 @ 8pm (nice piece in San Francisco Magazine, Sarah!) L.A. Times lets go of staffers - Variety "Other Calendar page regulars exiting include classical music writer Chris Pasles" I thought "Tonight we dine in hell" was a departure from his usual rhetoric |...

  Weekend Opera Broadcasts

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AllAboutOpera.com | 07/19/08 5:05

SATURDAY La Rondine (Puccini) — Learn more at WQXR.com SATURDAY Iphigenie En Tauride (Gluck) — Learn more at NPR SUNDAY L'Arlesiana (Cilea) Celebrating the birthday of Francesco Cilea with his opera "L'Arlesiana". This 1991 recording features Elena Zilio, Péter Kelen, Maria Spacagna, and...

  Lorraine at Emmanuel

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Prima la musica, poi le parole | 07/18/08 9:39

It goes without saying, but — lock the doors, draw the blinds, anaesthetize pets and family members. You will not want to be interrupted when you listen to this. Even my horrible CD player, which opens in the middle of...

  Bright Lights of the Met Opera Lobby Are Put Out for Repair

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AllAboutOpera.com | 07/18/08 8:48

It was the kind of story handed down from generation to generation. Johannes Rath remembers hearing it told, over and over, when he was growing up in an apartment above the family's workshop in Vienna in the 1980s. The story was that the first ovation in the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center erupted when the chandel...

  Opera review: This 'Trovatore' goes a bit flat

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AllAboutOpera.com | 07/18/08 8:48

Smaller opera companies try to mix their offerings between the unusual fare that keeps things lively and the tried-and-true repertoire that brings subscribers in. For the Festival Opera in Walnut Creek - which has largely mastered that delicate balancing act - the point of interest is coming next month, with Britten's Shakesp...

  Wolf Trap's Island of Twisted Delights

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AllAboutOpera.com | 07/18/08 5:35

Wolf Trap Opera is in the midst of a season that, it should be said, is a wild success. After appropriately performing a concert version of Candide in the Filene Center, the company has focused on three unusual choices in the more suitable Barns, beginning with Verdi's early comedy Un Giorno di Regno, continuing this month...

  Hansel and Gretel at Glyndebourne: my search for comedy's black heart

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AllAboutOpera.com | 07/18/08 5:35

[Opera director Laurent Pelly talks to Rupert Christiansen about bringing his 'brutal, greedy and obese' Hänsel and Gretel to Glyndebourne] Laurent Pelly suddenly looks very solemn when I half-jokingly ask him if he is someone unusually in touch with that popular psychobabble phenomenon, the inner child. "This is something...

  Conductor James Levine has kidney surgery

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AllAboutOpera.com | 07/18/08 5:35

The brother of conductor James Levine says the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Metropolitan Opera music director has had surgery in New York to remove a kidney. — Read more at The Associated Press

  REVIEW: Samson at Buxton Opera House

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AllAboutOpera.com | 07/18/08 5:35

Frank Matcham's masterly opera house is certainly getting a lively workout at this year's Buxton Festival. After the Teutonic whimsy of Lortzing's The Poacher on opening night, four more operatic rarities were staged on the next two evenings. True, Handel's Samson is neither rare nor an opera. But it's unlikely that this...

  Links for 2008-07-16 [del.icio.us]

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The Standing Room | 07/17/08 6:17

Pitch Perfect and the strange allure of college a cappella. - Slate Magazine 1. omg, y'all need to stop forwarding this to me and 2. why the hell is she snapping on downbeats?!? how totally lame