Sarah Urwin Jones of Scotland on Sunday reviews recitals by Simon Keenlyside and by Gerald Finley and other Edinburgh Festival performances.
September 1, 2010
August 31, 2010
August 31, 2010
Barnes & Noble has announced it will close its store near Lincoln Center in New York at the end of January, says the New York Times.
August 30, 2010
August 30, 2010
“Agnes Varis, a prominent patron and board member of the Metropolitan Opera, has donated $250,000 to Opera Orchestra of New York, the company said Monday. The money will go toward a concert performance of Meyerbeer’s ‘Africaine’ at Avery Fisher Hall on March 2.”–artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com
August 28, 2010
August 25, 2010
August 25, 2010
Anna Nicole–The Opera “is due to be broadcast on BBC4 [television] in early 2011 but it’s unknown if a U.S. network will pick it up.”–newsfeed.time.com
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BroadwayWorld.com article about Met Talks at Metropolitan Opera, New York, for 2010-2011 season
August 24, 2010
Ariadne on Naxos
September 28, 2010, is the scheduled release date for the United States of a new recording, in English, of Richard Strauss’s opera Ariadne on Naxos, as part of the Opera in English series of Chandos records. The cast includes Christine Brewer, Gillian Keith, Alice Coote, Robert Dean Smith, and Stephen Fry. Richard Armstrong conducts the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
August 31, 2010, is the scheduled release date for the United Kingdom, says amazon.co.uk.
August 22, 2010
August 20, 2010
August 20, 2010
Hyperion has assembled their recordings of the songs of Robert Schumann into a 10-CD set of the complete songs of Robert Schumann, arranged in chronological order. Release is scheduled for the end of August in the United Kingdom and Germany, and for mid September in the United States. Among the vocal soloists are Dorothea Röschmann, Juliane Banse, Ian Bostridge, Simon Keenlyside, and Christopher Maltman.
CD, amazon.co.uk
CD, amazon.com
CD,
Schumann: The Complete Songs, arkivmusic.com
CD, amazon.de
