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With the performance of Dessì we move onto a different plane than the other singers.
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The original conductor of Nielsen’s opera summed the piece up well I think…
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“To play La Pompadour—what a delightful task! To be La Pompadour—what a gruesome fate!”
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Perhaps there are not that many people in the world who would look at a CD cover and think “Oh, goody, goody! A libretto by Eugène Scribe I’ve never come across before!”
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The surprises, and puzzles, of Dmitri Tcherniakov‘s production of Don Giovanni in this DVD of a performance at the Aix-en-Provence festival begin before a note has been played or the curtain has risen.
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I got quite a surprise when I opened the latest packet of goodies from La Cieca – a DVD of Orphée aux Enfers, but in German as Orpheus in der Unterwelt.
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The 19th century could not cope with Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti (Thus Do They All, or The School for Lovers) with a libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte and music by Mozart, first presented in Vienna in 1790.
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the strip on my first and, so far at least, only visit to Las Vegas a few years ago, I noticed what to me was a most unexpected sight and startled my companions by pointing out the window and shouting “Auber!”
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Of all of Verdi’s operas. Aida is the one I find least interesting dramatically.
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All of the operas of Giuseppe Verdi contain music that is worth hearing and can be rewarding in good performances.
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of a performance from the Teatro Regio di Parma.
