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Love makes fools of us all – that seems to be the theme of this summer’s Glimmerglass Festival.
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Born on this day in 1918 composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein
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A performance recorded earlier this summer in Graz featuring Michael Hell conducting Valerio Contaldo, Johanna Rosa Falkinger, Anna Manske, Iris Vermillon, and Wolfgang Bankl
Happy 68th birthday director and administrator Francesca Zambello
Don’t cry for me, Birgit Nilsson
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Chris’s Cache celebrates the 91st birthday today of Janet Baker, one of my favorite singers.
You probably won’t leave Idomeneo ready to burst out in song, but what the opera lacks in melodic immediacy it makes up for in sheer virtuosity.
On this day in 1828 Rossini’s Le comte Ory premiered in Paris
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Karina Canellakis conducts Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Paula Murrihy, Matthew Rose, Ying Fang, and David Portillo in a performance recorded last month at The Santa Fe Opera
Jay Scheib’s Augmented-Reality Parsifal is a cautionary reminder that technological innovation shouldn’t absolve directors from the exacting work of deriving intelligent and fascinating theater from the source material.
Born on this day in 1750 composer Antonio Salieri
Timur Zangiev conducts Sean Panikkar, Peixin Chen, Asmik Grigorian, Violeta Urmana, and Juan Francisco Gatell in a live broadcast from the Salzburg Festival
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