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 31, 2010
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.
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Schumann: The Complete Songs, arkivmusic.com
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August 19, 2010
August 17, 2010
August 15, 2010
Royal Opera’s Faust on DVD
A DVD of 2004 performances of Gounod’s Faust at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, is scheduled for release in September 2010 in the United Kingdom and France and in October in the United States.
Gounod: Faust
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Angela Gheorghiu (Marguerite), Roberto Alagna (Faust), Bryn Terfel (Méphistophélès), Simon Keenlyside (Valentin) & Sophie Koch (Siébel)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano (conductor) & David McVicar (director)
David McVicar’s spectacular 2004 production of Gounod’s Faust, featuring a divine cast of opera’s superstars: Roberto Alagna, Angela Gheorghiu, Bryn Terfel, Simon Keenlyside and Sophie Koch.
McVicar is one of the most innovative and in-demand directors, and his lush, hauntingly realized vision of Faust received glorious praise. The production revels in a gothic, seamy Second Empire setting, with the Act V ballet “haunting the imagination long after”(The Independent).
“This is opera at its grandest and best” The Wall Street Journal
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Description du produit:
La légendaire production du Faust de Gounod à Covent Garden en 2004, dans la mise en scène hardie du désormais célèbre David Mc Vicar. Ce qui retient l’attention, c’est un casting de rêve, qui ramène à l’âge d’or du chant. Excusez du peu : Roberto Alagna dans un de ses rares Faust, ardent et solaire. Angela Gheorghiu, bouleversante Marguerite, aussi à l’aise dans l’air des bijoux que dans la dramatique scène finale, Bryan Terfel, le plus grand baryton basse du moment, un Méphisto cauteleux et puissant à la foi, et dans les seconds rôles de Valentin et Siébel, les très grands chanteurs que sont Simon Keenlyside et Sophie Koch. Enfin, Antonio Pappano confirme qu’il est bien le grand chef lyrique d’aujourd’hui. Certainement un des DVD d’opéra les plus importants jamais paru.
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