Revivals of Falstaff in Milan and Don Carlo in Naples have Larry Wolff thinking across the six decades of Verdi‘s career
“In over nine years you’ve never posted an opera by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari,” no one has ever said.
The full title of the opera pretty much describes the plot: Il mondo alla roversa osia Le donne che comandano.
Gotham Chamber Opera presented Haydn’s Il Mondo della Luna on Tuesday evening at the Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium, in a production that took advantage of the museum’s NASA constellations and a multitude of other more economical yet impressive stage and lighting effects. Despite cramped quarters and inhospitable acoustics, the company made a strong…
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