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© OPERA NEWS 2009
CURRENT ISSUE
November 2009
vol 74, no. 5
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2009 OPERA NEWS AWARDS
The Met Premiere of
   From the House of
   the Dead

Direct Line: Donizetti's
   Influence on Verdi
The Readiness is All:
   New York City
   Opera's George Steel
Argento's Casanova
   Comes Home to
   Minnesota
Bryan Hymel
Unclosed Captions: Designing Opera Titles
Remembering The Incomparable Hildegard Behrens

On the Record: The 2009 OPERA NEWS Award Winners  Online Exclusive
The editors of OPERA NEWS listen to the discographies of this year's Award winners and present audio surveys highlighting the choicest cuts.
The OPERA NEWS Awards
OPERA NEWS salutes the distinguished achievements of five of opera’s best. And the 2009 honorees are ...

  MARTINA ARROYO by BRIAN KELLOW
  JOYCE DiDONATO by OUSSAMA ZAHR
  GERALD FINLEY by LOUISE T. GUINTHER
  PHILIP GLASS by ADAM WASSERMAN
  SHIRLEY VERRETT by F. PAUL DRISCOLL
The Lady Killer
Dominick Argento's brilliant 1985 opera buffa about Casanova gets a major revival this month at Minnesota Opera. RUSSELL PLATT reports.
Last Man Standing
George Steel's mission as the newly appointed chief of the beleaguered New York City Opera amounts to nothing less than keeping the company alive. Do his plans for the future make sense in light of the pared-down realities the "People's Opera" now faces? ADAM WASSERMAN reports.
Entitlement Issues
MATTHEW GUREWITSCH looks at the various ways in which opera titles have been integrated into production designs.
Viewpoint: A Time to Celebrate
by F. PAUL DRISCOLL
OperaWatch
by F. PAUL DRISCOLL
On the Beat
Well be right back: remembering the vintage years of TV talk shows; Stephen Costello and the 2009 Richard Tucker Music Foundation Gala.
by BRIAN KELLOW
Sound Bites: Bryan Hymel
by BRIAN KELLOW
Books
The political life of Leonard Bernstein; a novel about artistic obsession by George Rabasa.
Dateline  Online Exclusive
by TRISTAN KRAFT


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