20 Jun 2006
'Angels in America,' Already Operatic, Is Now Presented as an Opera
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/19/arts/music/19ange.html
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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
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By BERNARD HOLLAND [NY Times, 19 June 2006]
BOSTON, June 17 — Much of life is spent thinking about death. Primary in our thoughts are the rate of its approach and hour of its arrival. It is a little like driving a car whose accelerator and brakes are out of our control. This idea may explain the public's hideous and enduring fascination with executions and suicides, for in both cases time races and the date is set. People are in control.