The curious case of Benjamin Bernheim
Who’s been hiding tenor Benjamin Bernheim from me all this time?
Zurich Opernhaus
Questions and antlers
Verdi’s only successful comic opera, Falstaff, is notably hard to produce.
A pretty girl milking her cow
If I had been handed Clari’s score without being told the name of the composer, I might have thought it was a lost Rossini opera, albeit a minor one. I would have probably assigned it to the early period of Rossini’s career, because it shows more similarities with works like La pietra del paragone and […]
I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).