On this day in 1974 soprano Kiri Te Kanawa made an “emergency” Met debut as Desdemona and her broadcast debut
“Trove Thursday” pays tribute to the great German bass Kurt Moll
The operas of Leos Janácek have been slowly gaining ground in the world’s theatres over the past fifty years.
This mostly wonderful performance of Handel’s Theodora opened the 2009 Salzburg Festival in honor of the 250th anniversary of the composer’s death. Written at the beginning of the last decade of the composer’s life, it was a work that he held in very high regard even though he knew its subject matter would not excite. Only…
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
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