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A regular day in 2018 Washington, D.C., or Verdi’s Don Carlo?
4 pieces since 2010 — in 3 roles, at 3 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
A regular day in 2018 Washington, D.C., or Verdi’s Don Carlo?
1817 was a fertile and diverse time for 26 year old Gioachino Rossini. It opened with his last true opera buffa, La Cenerentola, continued with his most important semiseria, La gazza ladra, and ended with two operas, which, although both nominally belonging to the seria genre, could not be more different from each other.
Despite the continued popularity of Der Freischütz in German-speaking countries, are the magical mature operas of Carl Maria von Weber otherwise really so problematic, their libretti so unwieldy to explain their continued absence from the world’s stages?
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