Fine music-making meets a clunker of a production in La Monnaie‘s revival of Norma
It is rare to be moved to tears by a lieder recital. It is rarer still to be moved to tears by the third song on a recital program.
Just because one can write an opera based on a film, does this necessarily indicate that one should?
Friday night Music Director James Conlon sold Die Entfürhung aus dem Serial to a tony crowd of Angelenos.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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