10 Jan 2008
Opera's Switch Hitter
http://www.nysun.com/article/69271
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Richard Wagner — Complete Operas
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Julia Lezhneva — Alleluia
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Even Pan Chimes In at Early Music Festival
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/19/arts/music/a-boston-biennial-celebrates-the-baroque-tradition.html?ref=music&_r=0
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!
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Record Attendance at Salzburg
http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/09/new_attendance_.php
“Ich kann mir keine deutschen Sätze merken”
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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
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BY GEORGE LOOMIS [NY Sun, 10 January 2008]
Balmy weather might be expected to add to the appeal of a visitor's first trip to New York City, but, for Elina Garanca, it felt like nothing but trouble. The 31-year-old Latvian mezzo soprano, who has excited European audiences from Vienna to London, arrived earlier this week to prepare for her American debut on Saturday evening as Rosina in the Metropolitan Opera's production of "Il Barbiere di Siviglia." Like any conscientious singer, she was less inclined to enjoy the spring-like breezes than concerned with how the fluctuation in temperature would affect her health. "It's gone from minus 10 to plus 17," she said, referring to Celsius degrees, "and I am sensitive to air-conditioning."