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9th Sep 13CD Reviews
Bizet
Gluck
Orfeo ed Euridice (1957, Monteux)
Orfeo ed Euridice (1967, Richter)
Orphée et Eurydice (1989, Gardiner)
Mozart
Don Giovanni (1966, Klemperer)
Don Giovanni (1988, Harnoncourt)
Die Zauberflöte (1955, Fricsay)
Die Zauberflöte (1964, Klemperer)
Die Zauberflöte (1970, Suitner)
Puccini
Madama Butterfly (1957, Leinsdorf)
Madama Butterfly (1959, Santini)
Madama Butterfly (1962, Leinsdorf)
Turandot (1966, Molinari-Pradelli)
Rossini
Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1957, Galliera)
Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1982, Chailly)
Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1983, Marriner)
Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1993, Gelmetti)
La Cenerentola (1963, Di Fabritiis)
La Cenerentola (1988, Marriner)
La Cenerentola (1992, Chailly)
Verdi
Bizet
Gluck
Orfeo ed Euridice (1982, Glyndebourne)
Humperdinck
Mozart
The Magic Flute (1975, Bergman film)
Die Zauberflöte (1978, Glyndebourne)
Die Zauberflöte (1982, Salzburg)
Die Zauberflöte (1989, Drottningholm)
Die Zauberflöte (2003, Covent Garden)
Don Giovanni (1990, Sellars production)
Puccini
Madama Butterfly (1983, Verona)
Madama Butterfly (1986, La Scala)
Madame Butterfly (1995, Mitterand film)
Turandot (1994, San Francisco)
Rossini
Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1982, Glyndebourne)
Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1988, Schwetzingen)
Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1989, Met)
Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1992, Netherlands)
Il Barbiere di Siviglia (2005, Madrid)
Il Barbiere di Siviglia (2005, Parma)
La Cenerentola (1983, Glyndebourne)
La Cenerentola (1989, Salzburg)
La Cenerentola (2005, Glyndebourne)
Verdi
Rigoletto (1982, Ponnelle film)
Live Performance Reviews
Don Giovanni (Walt Disney Concert Hall, 2012)
The Magic Flute (San Francisco Opera, 2012)
La Bohéme (Hidden Valley, 2012)
Madama Butterfly (LA Opera, 2012)
La Cenerentola (LA Opera, 2013)
Il Signor Bruschino (Mendocino Music Festival, 2013)
Die Zauberflöte (LA Opera, 2013)
Random Thoughts
“He sure doesn’t sound like Justin Timberlake!”: “Turandot” in the Classroom
“Che faró senza Euridice?”: Transcendent Tranquility or Bare-Bones Bereavement?
P. Craig Russell’s “The Magic Flute”
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925-2012)
“If you no come back to me, you make my heart go dead”: The Toll of the Sea (1922)
Rigoletto: A Villain or a Victim?
Opera Canon vs. Opera Fanon: Edition #1
Things I Will Not Do When I Direct an Opera Production
Opera Canon vs. Opera Fanon: Edition #2
A Unique Art Form for a Unique Type of Mind: Experiencing Opera with Asperger’s Syndrome
“Our Demigod”: An Essay on the “Orfeo” Operas
Opera at the Library: My Tribute
Surprisingly-Similar Stories: Opera Edition
Operatic Highlights of My Christmas iPod
Opera Lovers Cookbook: Menus for Elegant Entertaining
Requiem for a Yellow Brick Brewery: A History of the Metropolitan Opera
A Few Random Things About Certain Opera Librettos That I Don’t Understand
Opera Imaginaire: An Animated Opera of the Imagination
“Les Misérables” Writings
“Les Misérables”: The Musical that Made Me an Opera Lover
“Les Misérables,” Stage vs. Screen: What’s the Difference? (Part I)
“Les Misérables,” Stage vs. Screen: What’s the Difference? (Part II)
“Les Misérables,” Stage vs. Screen: What’s the Difference? (Part III)
“Les Misérables,” Stage vs. Screen: What’s the Difference? (Part IV)
