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“It’s not easy being green”: especially if you’re the two greatest Italian opera composers.
3 pieces since 2012 — in 3 roles, at 1 company, most often at Lincoln Center.
“It’s not easy being green”: especially if you’re the two greatest Italian opera composers.
Bergamo hosts an annual Donizetti festival, Salzburg presents a Mozart-woche every January, and of course there is Bayreuth for Wagner. But Handel gets two festivals every spring, and this year I was finally able to attend one of them.
Rule Britannia? Often during the Olympics that famous number from Thomas Arne’s 1740 Alfred echoed in my ears.
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