International Herald Tribune - 27 April 2004

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concert reviews:

• Tannhäuser in Teletubbieland
  A new production at Bayreuth inspires little confidence in a festival that is supposed to be the spiritual home of Wagner performance.
• Rinaldo, Tannhäuser and Der Rosenkavalier at the 2003 Munich Opera Festival
  Two inventive stagings by David Alden alongside a venerable Otto Schenk production -- all executed at a standard rivaling that of Salzburg or Bayreuth.

International Record Review:

• Wagner: Tannhäuser
  Melchior, Flagstad, Tibbett, Halstead; Chorus and Orch of the Metropolitan Opera/Bodanzky, Leinsdorf
• Wagner: Tannhäuser
  Melchior, Flagstad, Janssen, Thorborg; Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera/Leinsdorf.

news:

• Myung-Whun Chung Resigns from Rome Post
  andante - 24 March 2003
• Jean-Luc Choplin Named to Take Over Paris's Théâtre du Châtelet in 2006 [expired]
  Agence France-Presse - 21 January 2004
• New Head of Châtelet in Paris Leaves Current London Job 18 Months Early [expired]
  The Independent [London] - 19 March 2004

concert reviews:

• A Powerful, Provocative Les Troyens
  The period-instrument production at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris may mark a turning point in the opera's history.
• Kaija Saariaho: L'amour de loin
  Two very different productions, in Paris and Bern, of what may well be the first great opera of the 21st century.