| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 2-Nov-2011 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Eglise Gutiérrez sparkles in a sleepy Covent Garden Sonnambula |
 COOPER.jpg) When you discover your bride-to-be in another man's bed on the eve of your wedding day, the excuse "Darling, I must have been sleepwalking" rates somewhere near the same level of credibility as "Sir, the dog ate my homework." But hey, this is opera, and bel canto opera at that. You didn't come to Bellini's La Sonnambula for the story and the drama: you came here for the singing.
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| 16-Jul-2011 Royal Albert Hall | Antonio Pappano and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia bring William Tell to the Proms |
 On Saturday night, Antonio Pappano and his Roman orchestra and chorus, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, brought us the first opera of the 2011 Proms- Gioachino Rossini's William Tell. More commonly performed as Guglielmo Tell with an Italian libretto, Pappano and Santa Cecilia first began concert performances of this rarely heard original French version in 2010, and have since made a live recording of it for EMI which has received both critical and popular acclaim.Read full review... | |
| 9-Apr-2011 Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House | Met’s ‘Ory’ Bubbles Like Champagne |
 When Franz Liszt conducted Le Comte Ory in Weimar, he said it “bubbled like champagne,” according to the Metropolitan Opera’s program note. It also noted that Liszt arranged for the audience to be served champagne in Act II. Met operagoers didn’t require champagne to feel bubbly, not even during intermission of the New York house’s first-ever production of Le Comte Ory when hundreds of flutes were likely consumed. Like champagne froth spilling over a too-full glass, laughter rippled out of the audience from the opening notes of the overture.
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