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- News round-up - 30 January 2010
Today's news from the world of opera - Los Angeles launches citywide Ring Festival LA
Ten weeks of diverse cultural events led by LA Opera - Birmingham Conservatoire to mount opera world premiere
David Blake’s Scoring A Century finally makes it to the stage - News round-up - 21 January 2010
Today's news from the world of opera - New York City Opera yields performance dates to the ballet
Continuing financial struggles force NYCO to 'right size' its activities
Contents for Opera Now (January/February 2010)
- OPERA FOR NOW
London’s Barbican Centre presents a series of modern European operas with a distinctive voice and a promising future - THE WAO FACTOR
West Australian Opera, based in Perth, is taking all the excitement of the art form to ‘the remotest city on earth’ - BRAZIL’S FINEST
As São Paulo’s opera house undergoes a major restoration in time for its centenary, Karyl Charna Lynn takes stock of opera’s illustrious past and rather more turbulent present in Brazil - FEASTING ON PARMA
The charms of Verdi and vini come together in our visitors’ guide - PERFORMING VOICE
Dogged by illness, few opera singers can have had as many career setbacks as Petra Lang. Mark Glanville discovers where her drive to succeed comes from - JOHN STEANE’S MEMOIRS: PART I
We begin our serialisation of the operatic memoirs of one of our most venerated writers and a great commentator on the qualities of the human voice - CASTING CALL
Robert Turnbull concludes his two-part survey by comparing great Wagnerians of the past with with the state of today’s talent - BASS LINE
Polish bass-baritone Vitalij Kowaljow is honing his Wotan for the forthcoming Ring cycle in Los Angeles. He talks Karyl Charna Lynn through his view of the role - EMERALD STYLE
Robert Thicknesse looks forward to a renewed political will to make opera in Ireland work - OPENING NIGHTS
Chris Shull is full of admiration at the inauguration of the new Winspear Opera House in Dallas - CURTAIN CALL
Are British composers being sold short in their native land?
Multimedia
Excerpts from the best DVD reviews featured in the Opera Now November/December 2009 issue
- DVD Reviews
Khovanshchina
UNITEL-Medici Arts 2072428 ★★★★★
(Opera Now page 116)
Zaide
Medici Arts 3078358 ★★★★
(Opera Now page 117)
Cosi fan tutte
Opus Arte OA BD7035 D ★★★★
(Opera Now page 118)
Editorial
What makes an opera company ‘National’? It’s a question that has been thrown into sharp relief in recent months as a new operatic landscape emerges in the second decade of the 21st century.
In France, the ‘National’ designation in an opera company’s title means that the State takes on a special responsibility for looking after you. National opera companies in Paris, Lyon, Strasbourg and Bordeaux are all favoured with extra funding and strong political connections...
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