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| November 14, 2003 Tim Ashley has written an intereting article about Samuel Barber's opera Vanessa for guardian.co.uk. |
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| The recent Naxos recording of Vanessa with Ellen Chickering was released at amazon.co.uk on September 29, 2003, and will be released at amazon.com on November 18, 2003. |
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Die Zauberflöte DVD: Davis, Keenlyside, Röschmann. Alphamusic.de |
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| Marcello Giordani's recording of Tenor Arias for Naxos is being released in the United States on November 18, 2003, and can be ordered from amazon.com. ROSSINI Guillaume Tell: Asile hereditaire DONIZETTI La fille du regiment: Ah! mes amis, quel jour de fete! La favorite: Un ange, une femme inconnue BELLINI Il pirata: Nel furor delle tempeste Il pirata: Per te di vane lagrime Torna, vezzosa Fillide GIOVANNI PACINI La fidanzata corsa: Son giunto! BIZET Carmen: Le fleur que tu m'avais jetee VERDI I Lombardi alla prima crociata: La mia letizia infondere Luisa Miller: Quando le sere al placido Il Trovatore: Ah, si, ben mio, coll'essere Il Trovatore: Di quella pira l'orrendo foco MASCAGNI Cavalleria Rusticana: Mamma, quel vino e generoso |
| Michael Bublé's audience "breaks down to "60% young women, 20% gay men and then 20% husbands and wives and older folks," says an article at canoe.ca. |
| Maria Callas recorded Bellini's I Puritani for EMI in Milan, March 24-30, 1953, with Tullio Serafin conducting and Giuseppe di Stefano in the role of Arturo. John Ardoin wrote of this recording that "Callas . . . manages to reflect a variety of emotional states while still giving pure vocal pleasure . . .." Naxos Historical will re-issue the recording on compact disc, to be released on 5 January 2004 at amazon.co.uk. |
| Darling, the movie from 1965 with Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde, and Laurence Harvey is being released on DVD for the United States on December 2, 2003, and can be ordered from amazon.com. |
| A short (222-page) biography of Elgar by Michael Kennedy is being published in early 2004. It can be ordered from amazon.co.uk, where the expected publication date is 29 February 2004. Barnes & Noble in the United States says that the book is being published in January 2004. |
| Cuba and its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo, by Ned Sublette, is being published in January 2004. |
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| Where Are You, My Brothers?, a compact disc of Russian songs from "war years" of the twentieth century, sung by Dmitri Hvorostovsky, is being released at amazon.co.uk on 1 December 2003. |
| Quotable Opera: Aria Ready for a Laugh? (Quotable Books) is a 136-page compilation of hundreds of quotations "that highlight the wit, wisdom and lunacy of the opera world." |
| "Almost eight years after Venetians watched their beloved opera house burn to the ground, La Fenice is finally ready to live up to its name and rise from its ashes once more," reports an article at cnn.com. |
| Bryn Terfel "has won an army of female admirers since his latest album hit the top ten of the pop charts," reports BBC News. |
| The 2004 Spoleto Festival USA, to take place in Charleston, South Carolina, from May 28 to June 13, will include performances of the epic 18-hour Chinese opera The Peony Pavilion, of Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos, and of Vincenzo Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi, according to a press release at businesswire.com. |
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| "A $3.5 million donation from the Annenberg Foundation will help the Metropolitan Opera continue its Saturday afternoon radio broadcasts for another season, an opera spokesman said. * * * "The live broadcasts from Lincoln Center have been funded by ChevronTexaco Corp. and its predecessor for more than six decades, but the company said in May that it would stop paying for them at the end of the 2003-2004 season. "The Met is still looking for another single sponsor because the donation covers only half a year of the series, which costs $7 million for a season of 20 programs. "The broadcasts, which are carried by 360 U.S. radio stations and reach about 10 million people in 42 countries, began airing in 1931 and were sponsored by Texaco beginning in 1940." --from an Associated Press article at nynewsday.com. |
| July 13, 2004, has tentatively been set by Decca as the release date in the United States for the DVD versions of the Peter Sellars productions of the three Mozart operas set to libretti of Lorenzo da Ponte. Many of the cast members were Boston-based singers. |