“In over nine years you’ve never posted an opera by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari,” no one has ever said.
Falstaff, Verdi’s totally unexpected, final, great comedic roar.
The CD explosion coincided with an enormous increase in interest in HIP (historically informed performance) so now there were lots of commercial recordings of the sort of operas I had turned to pirates to find.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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