This video recording of Il trovatore is sensational for all the right and wrong reasons simultaneously.
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At Friday night’s performance of La Bohème at the Met, the cast seemed to lean into (and gamble upon) the production’s enduring popularity.
Leave it to Opera News to whitewash the revolting reactionary politics of Franco Zeffirelli.
Tristan has been the season-launching opera three times before now, but good luck finding someone to provide a firsthand account of the last time.
“This throwback to the golden age of opera—superhuman singing greeted with frenzied ovations—was a function of a perfect storm of excitement.”
LA Opera opened their 30th season with a pairing of two of their most popular productions, both of which were initially staged by filmmakers not unfamiliar with the vagaries of our industry outpost here in Hollywoodland.
“Ogni Cura si doni al diletto / E s’accorra nel magico petto,” the joke went back in the late ’90s. What wags we were!
Also unimpressed was Franco Zeffirelli…
“Though Mr. Herheim’s work is rigorous, it is also fun, and this Rusalka is serious but the opposite of dour.”
Have you heard the most recent update on the Franco Zeffirelli outburst earlier this week at the Rome Opera?
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