Quarantining during COVID dramatically increased my compulsion to collect and compare interpretations.
Claudio Abbado passed away on the 20th of January five years ago, just months before I began my Ph.D.
Puccini’s Madama Butterfly with an unexpected heroine: the electrifying Julia Varady, seduced and abandoned by the suavely ardent Giacomo Aragall.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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