Les Arts Florissants present two ravishing programs in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
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.
Those of us in New York City who relish 17th century Italian vocal music were offered an enticing banquet over the past few weeks.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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