Continuing my search for the ideal modern video recording of The Ring I came across a review of last year's production in Valencia. My first thought was that Valencia isn't exactly an A list opera house so blah but Salminen was singing among others and Mehta was conducting so I thought it might be worth a look. As it happens, besides the full ( Read more... )

I just finished watching the 2007 Metropolitan Opera recording of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin. It is about as good as an opera recording can get. It helps that Onegin is a strong opera with a perfectly credible plot drawn straight from Pushkin. But that's just a start. Onegin is a love story and, as such, depends to a great extent on the ( Read more... )