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Saturday, February 25, 2006

Mr. Wainwright Goes to the MET

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Singer Rufus Wainwrigh t was a hit during the first intermission of today's MET's broadcast of Saint-Saëns' Samson et Dalila . ...
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Monday, February 20, 2006

Anthony Minghella's Butterfly

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By all accounts, Anthony Minghella's Madama Butterfly at the English National Opera, and soon to open the 2006-2007 Metropolitan Opera ...
Sunday, February 19, 2006

This'll get'em in, by George!

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The English National Opera has been advertising their current season at the London Colisseum with plenty of captivatingly sexy images these ...
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Saturday, February 18, 2006

The Goeran Gentele Revolution

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The recent Peter Gelb news conferences have brought on many conversations about imminent winds of change that promise to swirl about the Met...
Saturday, February 11, 2006

The Upcoming Peter Gelb Revolution

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From the tone of today's article by Daniel J. Wakin in the New York Times, the upcoming tenure of Peter Gelb as General Manager at the ...
Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Thomas Hampson / Marilyn Horne

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American Song, the Thomas Hampson recital at Carnegie Hall last Thursday was a critical and popular success. It happened on the nineteenth...
Sunday, January 15, 2006

Discovering Ugetsu Monogatari

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This weekend I discovered one of the masterpieces of the Japanese cinema: Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu Monogatari . I had never seen this f...
Saturday, January 14, 2006

Requiem for Sweeney Todd

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The skeletal remains of Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street are on view eight times a week at the Eugene O'Neill theater. S...
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Friday, January 13, 2006

Astrid Varnay Remembers Birgit Nilsson

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The following letter was posted on the Internet newsgroup rec.music.opera. It is a personal note from soprano Astrid Varnay rememembering h...
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Thursday, January 12, 2006

Birgit Nilsson: NY Times Bernard Holland Article

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The New York Times January 12, 2006 Birgit Nilsson, Soprano Legend Who Tamed Wagner, Dies at 87 By BERNARD HOLLAND Birgit Nilsson, the Swedi...
Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Birgit Nilsson Dies

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The great Swedish soprano Birgit Nilsson died on Christmas Day in her native Sweden. It was only today that her death was reported in Ameri...
Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Robert Wilson's new Ring in Paris

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Here is the New York Times Review of Robert Wilson's new Ring in Paris. November 2, 2005 Audiences Love a Minimalist 'Ring' ...
Thursday, August 25, 2005

The Pillowman Nears the End of its Run

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The Pillowman , Martin McDonagh's macabre play, is closing in a few weeks after a successful, but short run on Broadway's Booth thea...
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Friday, August 12, 2005

Bayreuth, Salzburg and the BBC Proms

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It has been a fun summer of listening, recording and designing CD covers for the Internet webcasts of the European summer festivals that sta...
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Saturday, August 06, 2005

"Die Gezeichneten" at Salzburg

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It has been quite an exciting Salzburg Festival this summer. As I reported earlier, Mozart's Die Zauberflöte with Riccardo Muti at the...
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Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Magic Mozart at Salzburg

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While the magic continues at Bayreuth through the month of August, over in Austria, the Salzburg Festival has begun. As the classical music ...
Thursday, July 28, 2005

New York Times article: "Boos at Bayreuth"

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The following article appeared in the New York Times . It gives a brief impression of opening night of the 2005 Bayreuth Festival. Boos at...
Monday, July 25, 2005

The 2005 Bayreuth Festival Opens

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The annual Bayreuth Festival opened today with a performance of Tristan und Isolde . The unusual new production (see pictures below) was con...
Sunday, July 17, 2005

The New Harry Potter

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It's now been a little over 24 hours since the publication of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince , J.K. Rowling's latest trip to...
Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Nikolaus Lehnhoff's Parsifal on DVD

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Wagner's concept of "total art work" was not something that he liked to share. Mozart and Verdi were fortunate to have had Lor...
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Vincent Vargas is a retired foreign language and film history teacher from New York City. He runs websites dedicated to Casablanca (www.vincasa.com) and Richard Wagner (www.wagneroperas.com).
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