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Archive for March, 2009

I am something of a veteran in what regards Mary Zimmerman’s production of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor for the Met. I have seen every cast featured in the opera with the exception of the most controversial one (unlucky me) – that of this year’s revival with Anna Netrebko and her three tenors. Fortunately, there are [...]

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Count Almaviva has a bear costume? And does magician tricks?  In Franz Welser-Möst’s DVD of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, strange things happen.  The review is on re:  opera.

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Reviews of William Christie’s new DVD of Handel’s Semele with Cecilia Bartoli and of Ottavio Dantone’s DVD of Mozart’s Ascanio in Alba have been added to the discographies in re:  opera, which you can find in the link on your right.

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