Peter D'Ettore
Peter D'Ettore discovered his love of opera in college through Leontyne Price's 1961 recording of "Chi il bel sogno di Doretta," even deciding to study and write about queerness and opera performance for his master's thesis. Born and raised in South Florida, he currently teaches literature and composition courses at his local community college and plans all of his travel (domestic and international) around the opera season.
An incoherent production of Ruslan and Lyudmila at the Hamburg State Opera may dispense with the fantastical, but Glinka‘s magic remains.
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Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.
Big voices overwhelm Claus Guth‘s toothless staging of Khovanshchina at the Berlin Staatsoper.
