Juan Diego Flórez‘s charm and artistic sensibility remain as vibrant as ever, as seen at a recent Carnegie Hall recital.
I just don’t get why anyone takes Mario Lanza seriously as “the tenor of the century” and so forth.
On this day in 1974 Verdi’s I Vespri Siciliani had its Metropolitan Opera stage premiere.
At one point I spent a couple of months on the dole and dollar record shopping had a number of obvious virtues as a pastime.
Sunday’s sold out Carnegie Hall recital became a veritable love-fest between the Peruvian tenor and those assembled in the Hall.
The Broad Stage presented Joseph Calleja in their Celebrity Opera Series May 10 with a concert called A Tribute to Mario Lanza.
Classical music writer and opera critic Robert Levine has written a very pleasant new book, Weep, Shudder, Die, A Guide to Loving Opera, published by HarperCollins Books. Levine sets up the book’s premise early in his introduction: “Could singing… make one, as the composer Vincenzo Bellini said, ‘weep, shudder, die’ and at the same time…
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
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