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On this day in 1910 Puccini“s La fanciulla del west had its world premiere at the Met
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Here’s the bottom line: at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall stage on December 3, Iestyn Davies and viol consort Fretwork made the sweetest sounds I’ve heard from human beings all year.
On this day in 1905 Richard Strauss’s Salome premiered in Dresden
On this day in 1849 Verdi’s Luisa Miller premiered in Naples
The Saturday Matinee Broadcast season starts with a performance from the Metropolitan Opera
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On this day in 1846 Berlioz’s La damnation de Faust premiered in Paris
On Tuesday night, in the commodious concert hall of the Morgan Library, the Boston Early Music Festival forces brought Georg Philipp Telemann’s Don Quichotte auf der Hochzeit des Comacho to New York.
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December at Chris’s Cache kicks off with two of Verdi’s lesser-known operas: La Battaglia di Legnano and I Due Foscari.
Happy 86th birthday mezzo-soprano Yvonne Minton
Washington Concert Opera returned on November 24th for its first show of the 2024-2025 season with a production of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, another (relative) rarity from the composer following last year’s season-closing presentation of La rondine.
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