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News: 10 June 2008
New York
Brokeback Mountain as
Opera
New York's City Opera has commissioned American
composer Charles Wuorinen to compose an opera based on Annie Proulx’s
short story "Brokeback Mountain."
Opera Review
New
York
Satyagraha:
Gandhi According to Philip Glass and the Metropolitan
Opera
Aerialists, puppeteers and stilt walkers mark Philip Glass'
semi-narrative opera about Mahatma Gandhi’s early years in South Africa.
In Sanskrit.
CD and DVD Review
Paris
For Those Who Are Awaiting La
Befana
If you have not yet observed the gift-giving tradition and
are waiting for La Befana’s arrival on Epiphany, there are some
magnificent CDs and DVDs that merit attention.
Opera Review:
Lyon, France
Siegfried's Pyjama Party
The
cast of the Opera de Lyon slipped into something more comfortable for a
production of Wagner's Siegfried.
Opera Review
Berlin
Henze's Phaedra: Radical
Composer Offers Few Surprises Unter den Linden
German composer Hans Werner
Henze's new concert opera Phaedra about a tormented queen
infatuated with her stepson. Ciarán McAuley reviews the world premiere
in Berlin.
Book Review
New York
Sherrill Milnes - American
Aria
Sherrill Milnes’s autobiography,
American Aria , has now been
updated for a paperback edition. Read the review.
Interview
Paris
Emmanuelle Haïm
Opera editor Joel Kasow chats with
Emmanuelle Haïm, a photogenic French conductor who could just as easily
entice men from the cover of Esquire
. Her secret: "Just don't wear a super
miniskirt or a strapless dress."
Archive
Joel Kasow's Opera Diary
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Reviews of
Wagner's Parsifal in Geneva, Ravel's L'Heure espagnole
and Puccini's Gianni Schicchi in Paris, Jean-Michel Damase's
L'Héritière in Marseilles and other European productions
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