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April 2012
Editor's Notes Recent News
Featured productions 2012/13 Seasons
Reviews by our critics Featured CD's
Featured Article Highlights during May
Die Walküre at the Metropolitan Opera
EDITOR'S NOTES
Welcome to our April newsletter.
During April and May the Metropolitan Opera is presenting three cycles of it's new production of Der Ring des Nibelungen. They will also screen the full cycle (from previous broadcasts) in cinemas during the month of May.
This production by the Canadian director Robert Lepage has attracted huge controversy with most of the focus falling on the huge "machine" that dominates the stage.
Read in our featured article below about the changes Lepage has made and how he now views the cycle as a whole. We will cover the reviews of these performances next month.
Michael Sinclair
Editor
Photos
Scenes from the Met's Ring
Photos: Ken Howard / Metropolitan Opera
Siegfried at the Metropolitan Opera
RECENT NEWS
>>The opera glasses carried by U.S. president Abraham Lincoln when he was assassinated in 1865 will be auctioned later this month, expecting to fetch between $500,000 and $700,000.
(Chicago Tribune/Reuters)
more>>
>>Met Opera unveils summer season. For the fifth summer in a row, the Met will present recitals instead of complete opera performances.
(New York Times)
more>>
>>"Silent Night," an opera by Kevin Puts that dramatizes a miraculous ceasefire during World War I, has won the Pulitzer Prize for music.
(Los Angeles Times)
more>>
FEATURED PRODUCTIONS
Photo: Ken Howard / Metropolitan Opera Photo: Stephen Cummiskey Photo: Felix Sanchez
MANON
Metropolitan Opera
Netrebko, Beczala, Szot, Mortagne, Garvin, Pittsinger
(c) Luisi (d) Pelly

JAKOB LENZ
English National Opera
Shore, Best, Roberts
(c) Ingram (d) Brown

MARIA STUARDA
Houston Grand Opera
DiDonato, Van Kooten, Martin, Cutler, Gradus
(c) Summers (d) Newbury
2012/13 SEASONS
This is the time of year when opera companies begin to release details of their next season, so click on an opera company below to get details of their 2012/13 season.
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HIGHLIGHTS DURING MAY 2012
6 May The Opernhaus Zürich will give the premiere of Donizetti's Poliuto, in a production by Damiano Michieletto. 19 May Richard Jones directs a new production of Peter Grimes for the Teatro alla Scala. John Graham-Hall sings the title role.
12 May New York City Opera presents the New York premiere of Georg Philipp Telemann's 1726 opera Orpheus. 20 May The 2012 Glyndebourne Festival opens with a new production of The Cunning Little Vixen to be directed by Melly Still.
15 May Robert Carsen directs a new production of Falstaff for the Royal Opera. Daniele Gatti conducts. 25 May Benedict Andrews will make his UK directorial debut with Glanert's 2006 opera Caligula for English National Opera.
FEATURED CD's
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Renée Fleming
Poèmes
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Klaus Florian Vogt
Helden
Le nozze di Figaro by Opera Australia (photo: Branco Gaica)
REVIEWS BY OUR CRITICS
> Parsifal
Vienna State Opera
by Moore Parker
> Le nozze di Figaro
Opera Australia
by John Corbett
> Rigoletto
The Royal Opera
by Colin Anderson
FEATURED ARTICLE
The New York Times
The Met’s ‘Ring’ after oiling
Director Robert Lepage talks about changes he has made to the “Ring” cycle at the Metropolitan Opera and defends his controversial production, saying he can now more easily envision the whole.
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