Trove Thursday wades into the murky musicological waters of Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann..
In his first appearance on the stage of Paris’ Palais Garnier, Roberto Alagna, as the newly knighted Rodrigue, was confronted with a profound dilemma.
De Nederlandse Opera’s remarkable 2011 feat of premiering productions of Gluck’s Iphigénie en Aulide and Iphigénie en Tauride on the same day and virtually the same set has been issued on a 2-DVD set by Opus Arte
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Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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