Category: music

– four percent through the first half of the year. Digital piracy through the internet gets the blame.  Hollywood Reporter

Plácido Domingo will help reopen Covent Garden in December. The Sunday Times catches him in gusts of flattery for his “favorite” opera house. This and all things maestro. – The Sunday Times (UK)

Even Canadians run out of patience eventually. – CBC

It’s expensive, it has its own rules, it’s intimidating – Beverly Sills talks about making opera more accessible. – The Arizona Republic

Slicker and more stylized than a page out of Architectural Digest, polished, polite and very, very mainstream. – Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Music doesn’t kill people, people kill people. Seattle Weekly turns its writers loose on a series of exploring links between music and violence. – Seattle Weekly

Pipe down a bit, will ya? – National Post (Canada)

And the world fails to end. But what about tradition? – The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

Record sales are up but the industry is down – just what is rock music anymore? The question dogs the annual CMJ conference of some 9000 music industry folk. – Chicago Tribune

– to write his first opera. Despite last week’s standing ovation at the Berlin premiere, one critic wonders why he bothered at all. – Financial Times