Month: July 2011

Below is a link to the New York Times feature about baritone Cornell MacNeil who passed away last Friday.  A must-see:  his Scarpia in the 1985 Zeffirelli production with Hildegard Behrens. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/18/arts/music/cornell-macneil-operatic-baritone-dies-at-88.html

Così Fan Tutte ATLANTA Atlanta Opera 4/9/11 Atlanta Opera rounded out its 2010–11 season with Mozart's Così Fan Tutte (seen Apr. 9). Director José Maria Condemi updated the action to pre-World War I Naples in order to provide more plausibility to the staged departure of Ferrando and Guglielmo as they pretend to leave their sweethearts, [...]