Archive
of Previous Issues

Autumn 2003 - Mourning
Becomes Electra - includes:
- The Return of
Mourning Becomes
Electra - Marvin
David Levy's Opera Comes to Seattle
- For the Love of Opera: A Conversation
with Speight Jenkins
- World Premiere: Thea Musgrave's
Pontalba
- Road Warrior: Interview with
Vivica Genaux
- Lyric
Opera Center for American Artists Trains the Opera Singers of the Future

Spring 2003 - American
Opera at the Met - Part II - includes:
- Modern History: American Opera
at the Met Part Two
- The Opera Outsider: Rinaldo;
Radiohead; La Gioconda; Oil & Opera; 1,000,000
- Urinetown: The Musical
about the Privileges of Peeing
- Daron in the Dock
An exchange about Vera of Las Vegas with Russell Platt and Daron
Hagen
- 20 Min. w/Renée
- From Monteverdi to Maw: Time
Travel with Rodney Gilfry
- The Little Prince arrives
in Houston - Conversations with Rachel Portman and Nicholas Wright
- Conversations with Reri Grist,
Barbara Hendricks, Harolyn Blackwell and Mattiwilda Dobbs
- A Long Wait For Lewis Spratlan
- Earthrise: The Progress
of an Opera
Timothy Nolen: Cowboy/Opera Singer/Broadway Star
- Erling Wold's Sub Pontio
Pilato Debuts in San Francisco.

Winter 2002-2003 - American
Opera at the Met - Part I - includes:
- American Opera at the Met Part
One (1910-1935)
- Met American Opera Timeline
- The Seagull Flies Again
- Conversations with Thomas Pasatieri and Kenward Elmslie
- Walking Papers: Candid Talk
with Austin Lyric Opera Founder Joseph McClain
- A View From the Bridge
Debuts at the Met
Conversations with William Bolcom, Kim Josephson and Gregory Turay
Reprise: Catherine Malfitanos Brilliant Career
- The Music Man: Paul Gemignani
Returns to Sweeney Todd

Autumn 2002 - New
York City Opera - includes:
- Two Conversations about Three
Tales: Beryl Korot and Steve Reich Talk about Their Latest Collaboration
- Rosalind Elias Recalls Samuel
Barber
and the Creation of Vanessa
- One Saint in Three Acts: Betty
Allen Talks About Her Career, Virgil Thomson and Teaching
- Carlisle Floyd Talks About
His "Other" Operas
- Phyllis Curtin: An American
Icon
- Commentary: Does Opera Matter?
- Letters
- Paul Kellogg Takes New York
City Opera Forward
- The Inseparable Histories of
New York City Opera and Julius Rudel
- The Newest Sister Helen: Joyce
DiDonato Makes Her New York Debut in Dead Man Walking
- Columbia University, the Columbia
Opera Workshop And the Efflorescence of American Opera in the 1940s and
1950s
- In The Center of Things: Jack
Beeson

Summer 2002-Loss
of Eden - includes:
- Cary John Franklin and Michael
Patrick Albano
- The Operas of Lee Hoiby
- Lowell Liebermanns
The
Picture of Dorian Gray
- The Judge is a Composer: Richard
Owen
- Race Matters: USOPERWEB
continues its series focussing on race in the opera world

Spring 2002 - Heloise and Abelard
- includes:
- Stephen Paulus and Frank Corsaro
- The Operas of John Harbison:
The Great Gatsby
- The Operas of Mikel Rouse: Dennis
Cleveland returns to the Lincoln Center.
- The Trouble With Candide

Winter 2002 - The Blitzstein Issue
- includes:
- The Operas of Marc Blitzstein:
Regina
- American Soprano Sheryl Woods
talks about American opera
- Music From the Left by R. G.
Davis
- Race Matters: USOPERWEB
begins a series focussing on race in the opera world.
- The Operas of Carlisle Floyd:
Of Mice and Men
- Keeping Up With Francesca Zambello
- World Premiere: American Conservatory
Theater presents The Difficulty of Crossing a Field

Autumn 2001 - Tobias Picker & Thérèse
Raquin - includes:
- Tobias Picker and Gene Scheer
- Francesca Zambello
- Catherine Malfitano
-
Tod Machover and Resurrection
- The Operas of Marc Blitzstein
- No for an Answer
- Scott Eyerly and The House
of the Seven Gables
- Elizabeth Futral
- Michael John LaChiusa

July 2001 - Jake Heggie & Dead Man
Walking - includes:
- Susan Graham, Kristine Jepson,
Frederica von Stade, John Packard, Teddy Tahu Rhodes
- American baritone Robert Orth
- Michael John LaChiusa &
Lovers and Friends (Chautauqua Variations)
- Utah Festival Opera
- Emile Zola Addresses his Critics

May 2001 - Mark
Adamo & Little Women - includes:
- Central City Opera
- Frances Bible
- August Tabor
- Elizabeth Futral
- Hector Armienta & River of
Women
- Carlisle Floyd & The Passion
of Jonathan Wade
- Theodor Uppman
- Dale Duesing
- Conrad Susa & Transformations

February 2001 - Carlisle Floyd &
Cold Sassy Tree - includes:
- Patricia Racette
- Dean Peterson
- John McVeigh
- Patrick Summers
- Bruce Beresford
- Kirke Mechem & Tartuffe