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This month has been an education for me. Like Chris, I have always preferred Donizetti's comedies to his tragic works. Of course, I admired Lucia and was impressed by [fill in the blank] as...
Thank you so much for your lovely story. It is very touching. I know her from her recordings on Opera Rara. My favorite recording is Roberto Devereux. I found this live performance from 2021. She...
I don’t presume you are speaking about Viaggio, a French opera sung in Italian by 6 singers of 6 nationalities. If you are referring to The Exterminating Angel, an English language opera, it is...
I have tried countless times to like Passion or even get through it and have never been able to. I saw the original in previews and sad to say the performance I attended was heckled by the audience.
What a wonderful way to pay tribute to your late husband. I saw a fabulous I Vespri Siciliani at WCO was a fabulous Carol Vaness (and if you have that performance saved somewhere, that's also...
Worth mentioning Gregory Kunde, who's 71, is about to sing Andrea Chénier with Radvanovsky in Berlin and still has protagonist roles scheduled for next season (like Radames in Paris).
Just a last word on dark-horse organists concealing their scandalous proclivities. Hervé was one too, and refers to that, I think, in Mam'zelle Nitouche, in which an organist and a nun...
Yannick leads The Philadelphia Orchestra, superstars Nina Stemme and Stuart Skelton, and world-class singers in a rare concert performance that reveals every detail and nuance of this richly harmonic score. Experience the passion and cold-hearted revenge of this scandalous opera. Get tickets now!
Yannick leads The Philadelphia Orchestra, superstars Nina Stemme and Stuart Skelton, and world-class singers in a rare concert performance that reveals every detail and nuance of this richly harmonic score. Experience the passion and cold-hearted revenge of this scandalous opera. Get tickets now!
Following the successful launch of the new regular feature The Talk of the Town in January, the team at the box is inviting contributions for a new quarter of operatic potpourri.
Following the successful launch of the new regular feature The Talk of the Town in January, the team at the box is inviting contributions for a new quarter of operatic potpourri.