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CURRENT ISSUE
THE UNEQUAL MARRIAGE OF WORDS AND MUSIC
Novel Approaches: The
Latest Trend in Opera
Librettos
J.D. McClatchy
Twelve Top Opera
Librettos
Woman of Many Words:
Composer Libby
Larsen
Unexpected Direction: Christopher and David Alden
Kenward Elmslie
Oscar Hammerstein's Allegro
Soprano Marlis Petersen
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Opera's Book Club
BARRY SINGER takes a look at the current read-the-book-see-the-opera school of commissioning new work.
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Twin Peaks
MATT WOLF talks to David and Christopher Alden, two stage directors who aren't afraid to be unconventional — or controversial — in their quest to bring the subtext to life in opera.
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Song of Himself
ADAM WASSERMAN visits poet J. D. McClatchy, one of contemporary opera's busiest librettists.
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American Voice
Veteran librettist Kenward Elmslie talks to JOHN J. D. SHEEHAN.
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Text Message
Are words, more than music, the driving force in contemporary opera? Composer Libby Larsen thinks so. PHILIP KENNICOTT reports.
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Novelty Act
Oscar Hammerstein II's book for Allegro, his 1947 musical with Richard Rodgers, was unlike anything he had ever attempted. As a new recording, starring Nathan Gunn and Audra McDonald, is readied for release, LAURENCE MASLON looks at this troubled work.
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Out-of-Town Tryout
REBECCA PALLER travels to the campus of Vassar College, where new works are developed in a uniquely supportive environment.
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Recordings
CRITIC'S CHOICE: Vickers shines in a 1962 Covent Garden Ballo. RECORDINGS: Villazón and Netrebko star in La Bohème; Shawn's The Music Teacher; a historic ROH Meistersinger; Colin Davis leads Tippett's Child; recordings of Zanetto, Così Fan Tutte and The Excursions of Mr. Brouček; recitals by Brewer, Kožená and Hynninen; the historic 1965 Die Soldaten arrives on CD. VIDEO: Jacobs paces Boussard's production of Don Giovanni; Wolfgang Wagner stages Meistersinger, with Barenboim conducting; Decca offers a gripping look at Pizzetti's Assassinio nella Cattedrale; Dessay and Flórez star in Pelly's Fille for Covent Garden; Scotto graces a 1973 Tokyo Traviata. |
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In Review
INTERNATIONAL: Haïm paces de Niese and Coote in Glyndebourne's new Poppea; ENO welcomes McVicar's staging of Der Rosenkavalier; Théâtre du Châtelet offers La Generala; Gluck's Iphigénie en Aulide at Strasbourg; Bartoli stars in Zurich's Clari; Muti leads Paisiello's Il Matrimonio Inaspettato; Schrott is Seville's Don Giovanni; Castorf directs Wolfgang Rihm's Jakob Lenz in Vienna. NORTH AMERICA: BAM presents Miller's Il Matrimonio Segreto; Chicago Opera Theater season continues with A Flowering Tree and Orlando; Armstrong paces Pieczonka in Los Angeles Opera's Tosca; Floyd's Susannah in Costa Mesa; Rappaccini's Daughter at CCM; Washington National Opera's Elektra stars Bullock. |
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