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In 1982 I saw Turandot at the San Francisco Opera, the year after I became an opera fan, and it was my first live opera.
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Rachel Willis-Sørensen might be the greatest American soprano right now who doesn’t sing much in America.
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Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint George is frequently referred to as “le Mozart noir.” While surely intended as a favorable comparison to Mozart, the sobriquet is diminishing, implying that Bologne’s music was somehow derivative of Mozart’s.
The opera titled L’Amant anonyme (“The Anonymous Lover”) is important because it is one of the earliest known operas by a Black composer that still survives in its entirety.
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