Category Archives: Opera

Gian Carlo Menotti in His Own Words

Posted on February 2, 2007 by sogalitno

Gian Carlo Menotti in His Own Words From today’s Italian newspapers: “What will the critics write when I die? I really don’t know. And I hope I’ll have better things to do than read the newspapers, then. When I was … Continue reading →

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Menotti (links)

Posted on February 1, 2007 by sogalitno

NY Times The Times (UK) The GuardianCharelston – “Father of Spoleto Festivals Dies” Playbill Opera News  Andante Appreciation Schrimer Website  Tim Page (Washington Post ) Washintgon Post Obit from Opera Chic: Menotti in 2001, in a long Corriere della Sera (July 8 issue) … Continue reading →

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Menotti R.I.P.

Posted on February 1, 2007 by sogalitno

Composer Gian Carlo Menotti dies at 95Associated Press ROME – Gian Carlo Menotti, who composed a pair of Pulitzer Prize-winning operas and founded the Spoleto arts festivals in the United States and Italy, died Thursday at a hospital in Monaco, … Continue reading →

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Mark your calendar!

Posted on January 31, 2007 by sogalitno

Mon, 2/127:30 PM ET Verdi: La TraviataRizzi; Dunleavy, Kim, Taylor SIRIUS Satellite Radio – Metropolitan Opera Radio. A WONDERFUL singer !  I was thrilled to see that she is getting her own SIRIUS debut!  Mary should be at the MET … Continue reading →

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Menotti

Posted on January 31, 2007 by sogalitno

From a posting to the VOX email list: The excellent Schirmer web site (www.schirmer.com/composers/menotti/bio.html) shows the preparations in 2011 for the Menotti centenary, and the excitement has been building.    But alas, apparently it is not to be—the grand old … Continue reading →

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An opera singer … goes to war | Chicago Tribune

Posted on January 26, 2007 by sogalitno

Lyric chorus member and naval reservist RONALD WATKINS gets ‘quick call-up.’ At his farewell matinee, he ponders his future. By Emily NunnTribune staff reporterPublished January 26, 2007 On a recent afternoon, Petty Officer 2nd Class Ronald Watkins was relaxing in … Continue reading →

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Domingo’s First Handel

Posted on January 18, 2007 by sogalitno

From an article on Playbill’s website regarding the Washington National Opera’s season plans for next season: Later in April and May will be the Washington National Opera premiere of Tamerlano, among the greatest of Handel’s 40-odd Italian operas. Plácido Domingo … Continue reading →

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Dessay and Florez take London!

Posted on January 17, 2007 by sogalitno

La Fille Du Regiment, Royal Opera House, London fivestarBy Edward SeckersonPublished: 15 January 2007 Things have come on a little in the 40 years since Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti strutted their ample stuff in the last Royal Opera staging … Continue reading →

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Die Walkuere postlude

Posted on September 14, 2006 by sogalitno

Tonight after the live webcast of the Canadian Opera Company’s stirring DIE WALKUERE, the CBC Radio host Howard Dick invited the New York Times’s own Anthony Tommasini into the "booth" for a quick reflection on the performance. And as a … Continue reading →

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Salzburg Festival – Reviews (NYT)

Posted on August 8, 2006 by sogalitno

‘Figaro,’ With Nikolaus Harnoncourt Conducting, at the Salzburg Festival By ANTHONY TOMMASINI Published: August 8, 2006  CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEW; Mozart’s Singspiels and ‘The Magic Flute’ at the Salzburg Festival By ANTHONY TOMMASINI MUSIC REVIEW; A Light Mozart Opera Refitted With a … Continue reading →

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