Orchestral
Pablo Heras-Casado Replaces Injured Pierre Boulez at September's Lucerne Festival
REVIEW: Plácido Domingo, 'Verdi' (Sony Classical)
UPDATE: It turns out that it isn't Domingo singing the tenor role in the Boccanegra Council Chamber scene. Good for the tenor Aquiles Machado, who sounds uncommonly like his more august colleague. But I'm welching on my bet. American Baritone Thomas Hampson’s BBC HARDtalk Interview with Sarah Montague: Tough, or Just Stupid?
The leading American baritone Thomas Hampson appears to have done his reputation no end of good (not that it needed much polishing, let’s face it) with a gracious and yet eloquent and robust defense of his art form on the BBC’s HARDtalk program. The television show espouses a confrontational house style and interviewer Sarah Montague had clearly been instructed to put Hampson on the spot about the popularity and expense of opera.
