The Met Orchestra under Yannick Nézet-Séguin surges into summer with a mixed program at Carnegie Hall
Trove Thursday remembers Edita Gruberová with live recordings of two of the three operas I heard her perform at the Met: a 1985 Munich La Traviata with Neil Shicoff and Wolfgang Brendel conducted by Carlos Kleiber and an I Puritani from Vienna 1994 featuring two other artists who recently left us too soon: Marcello Giordani and Dmitri Hvorostovsky.
“Die Zauberflöte is an opera!” “No, it’s the first musical comedy!”
Due to bandwidth limits “Trove Thursday” must post some more modest offerings in months with five Thursdays.
The 19th century could not cope with Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti (Thus Do They All, or The School for Lovers) with a libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte and music by Mozart, first presented in Vienna in 1790.
I’ve long been a fan of Kenneth Branagh, even though this fandom feels a bit like being a camel in the desert.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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