AVA met the challenge with a delightful, if necessarily truncated, video recital that allowed each singer to participate in the now-familiar Zoom platform.
Donizetti’s La Favorite remains a relative rarity in the repertoire, especially in the original French version.
Since 1934, Philadelphia’s Academy of Vocal Arts has been preparing emerging artists for operatic careers.
When soprano Yihan Duan started to sing her aria, you could feel an almost electric charge that something special was happening.
Così fan tutte, Mozart’s final Italian comedy with Lorenzo Da Ponte, is this season’s heaviest lift for Philadelphia’s Academy of Vocal Arts (AVA).
Russian repertoire figures very centrally in AVA’s mission.
The late-mid 1730s were transitional years for Handel, to put it nicely.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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