Three on a match
Elsa Dreisig, Jonas Kaufmann, and Malin Byström lead recent album releases.
Franz Lehár
6 pieces since 2011.
6
pieces
16
years
A life for the zarzuela
In El Barbero de Sevilla, as given through the weekend by the New Camerata Opera, there is far too much comic dialogue, all of it in English and none of it sparkling.
Back to the beach
Were La Rondine an IQ test, I’d be in trouble.
Out of hell
One can only pray that “three strikes, you’re out” applies at the Met. If so, we can rest easy that Jeremy Sams won’t be getting any new assignments.
Multicolored
Polish singers are chameleons. They have to be.
Anna, in her own words
I was on the bus to Nürnberg today on the way to do Wagner tourism and hear Herr Sacro Fuoco tomorrow, and on the way I translated the juicy bits of the full print edition Anna Netrebko article… I was going to post it as a comment but it turns out I thought a lot […]