10 Feb 2006
Child's Opera According to Sendak: Send In the Bullies and Milk
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/10/arts/music/10send.html
Recently in News
Paris Opera Awards 2013
http://www.paris-opera-awards.fr/parisoperraawards-9480.html
London: Music under the shadow of Handel
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/london-music-under-the-shadow-of-handel
Sir Colin Davis Dead at 85
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9994121/Sir-Colin-Davis.html
“Culture: the cement that binds Europe together”
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-13-280_en.htm?locale=en
Welcome to awards night at the opera
http://www.standard.co.uk/arts/welcome-to-awards-night-at-the-opera-8493092.html
Wolfgang, Is That You?
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/07/arts/music/are-those-pictures-really-mozart.html?smid=tw-share&_r=1&
A New Hall for Tiroler Festspiele Erl
http://www.operatoday.com/content/2013/01/a_new_festival_.php
Simon Boccanegra Opens Rome Opera 2012-13 Season
http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/11/rome_opera_open.php
Glyndebourne 2013
http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/10/exciting_glynde.php
The Singer’s Appetite!
http://thesingersappetite.com/
Record Attendance at Salzburg
http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/09/new_attendance_.php
“Ich kann mir keine deutschen Sätze merken”
http://www.welt.de/kultur/musik/article108680314/Ich-kann-mir-keine-deutschen-Saetze-merken.html
Debussy at 150: The Impressions Still Deceive
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/arts/music/debussys-150th-birthday-gets-little-notice.html?_r=1&ref=music
Bayreuth Does It Again
http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/08/another_bayreut.php
Florida Grand Opera Appoints New Artistic Administrator
http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/07/changes_at_flor.php
Friedrich Haider Appointed Artistic Director of Slovak National Theatre
http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/07/changes_in_brat.php
Margrave Opera House Receives UNESCO World Heritage Status
http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/07/honors_for_bayr.php
Wiener Staatsoper’s Financial Condition Improves
http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/07/continued_progr.php
Uwe Erich Laufenberg Fired
http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/07/lots_of_loose_e.php
Nicolas Bachler’s Contract Extended
http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/06/bavarian_state_.php
OPERA TODAY ARCHIVES »
News
By CHARLES McGRATH [NY Times, 10 February 2006]
If the life of Maurice Sendak were a Maurice Sendak picture book, it would open with a busy two-page spread, done in the dark, crosshatched style he has sometimes used, of a sickly, unhappy Brooklyn childhood: brooding parents, a World War II recruiting poster, a scary image of Hitler and, over in the corner, a pair of burglars scuttling away with the Lindbergh baby — an image that haunted Mr. Sendak in his early years. In Disney style, which the very young Sendak used to imitate, the kidnappers wear great big shoes with little white squares to indicate a shine.