Laura Alonso Hall in New York in November with the opera "Las horas vacías" ("The Empty Hours") by Ricardo Llorca. Recently she has performed with the Symphony of Egypt. She also toured the most important theatres in China. Last May she played the role of Violetta in "La traviata" at the opera theatre in Darmstadt. She has also interpreted Lucia di Lammermoor in Illinois, likewise the role of Konstanze in "The Abduction from the Seraglio" by Mozart, in Illinois too. At the Aalto Theatre in Essen (Germany), she received the Best Artist Award, by popular acclaim, and she has sung again during
Il Neo Il Neo Il Neo (La Mouche) is an opera in 1 act, 3 tableaux ("novelletta musicale in 3 piccoli quadri" — musical novelette in 3 little tableaux) by Henrique Oswald to an Italian libretto by Eduardo Filippi after a novella "La mouche" by Alfred de Musset. Composed in 1900. Never published. It is the only of three operas by Oswald which definitely was staged. "Il Neo" is Oswald's second opera written some thirty years after his first (1872). The composer may have turned to this genre again because of the rapid development of opera in Brazil around 1900: the public