When my editor suggested to me a round-up of my favorite recordings of Jacques Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann I was très, très, intrigued.
On this day in 1978, the Metropolitan Opera presented a new production of Donizetti’s La favorita.
It was an afternoon of spectacular singing, particularly from the two principals and the glorious Lyric Opera Chorus.
Someone—a deranged purist no doubt—heckled Javier Camarena from the balcony of the opera house for withholding the infamous high F during “Credeasi, misera.”
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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