To get right to the point, the performance did not come together despite some good elements and was a major missed opportunity.
Beverly Sills and Renée Fleming perform 30 years apart the same work with the same orchestra in the same venue!
“Trove Thursday” remembers the company’s very first Lady Macbeth via Leonie Rysanek’s NYC debut in a concert performance of Verdi’s Shakespeare masterpiece less than a year before her first Met appearance.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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