San Francisco goes baroque with performances of Handel‘s Alcina, Tolomeo, and Rinaldo.
West Bay Opera’s Otello punches well above its weight
New Amsterdam Opera specializes in American singers whose abilities are as yet little known.
LoftOpera’s Saturday night performance of Rossini’s Otello successfully appealed to the essential kinetic energy of the operatic art form.
Poor Paisiello. Out of the nearly 100 operas written by this industrious composer just one was generally regarded as a masterpiece.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
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