Table Of Contents: June 2001

Stephanie Blythe in Bloom

Vol. 65, No. 12

by F. Paul Driscoll

Carol Vaness
Miss Havisham's Fire in St. Louis
Florence Foster Jenkins

Features

Poetic License

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Seamus Heaney's new translation of Diary of One Who Vanished is featured this month at Manhattan's Lincoln Center Festival. MICHAEL DERVAN interviews Ireland's Nobel Prize-winning poet about putting new words to Janácek's music.

Rekindling Miss Havisham's Fire

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Miss Havisham's Fire, Dominick Argento's operatic take on Charles Dickens's novel Great Expectations, had a troubled first run at New York City Opera in 1979. This month, the composer's revision of Havisham is unveiled at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. WILLIAM R. BRAUN reports.

The Rules of the Road

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ANDREW FARACH-COLTON talks to soprano Carol Vaness, who is now providing the voice of experience in singer training programs.

Barnstorming

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Wagner in a calving barn? JEANNIE WILLIAMS extols the rustic pleasures of Great Britain's unconventional Longborough Festival.

Blythe in Bloom

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Is there anything Stephanie Blythe can't sing? F. PAUL DRISCOLL profiles the rising young mezzo, who has flourished in Handel, Bizet, Offenbach and Rossini by combining golden-age singing with twenty-first-century savvy. And her way with an Irving Berlin tune ain't chopped liver, either.

Florence Nightingale

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Her singing was extraordinary; her fans were legion. She was probably the worst soprano in the world. BROOKS PETERS applauds the peerless Florence Foster Jenkins.

Departments

Recordings

In Review

OperaWatch

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On the Beat

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Lyric Opera of Chicago Broadcasts

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Jenufa, Tosca, Der Fliegende Holländer, Attila

Viewpoint

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