Canonically ossified
When such a canonically ossified work like Verdi’s Aïda is directed at all (let alone as ambitiously as Damiano Michieletto at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino), it does feel like a completely different opera
maggio musicale fiorentino
Der junge Lord
Henze‘s opera in a live broadcast from the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Rigoletto
A live broadcast from Florence’s Maggio Musical Fiorentino
Tosca
Daniele Gatti conducts a live broadcast from the Florence May Festival featuring Vanessa Goikoetxea, Piero Pretti, and Alexey Markov
Turandot
Olga Maslova, SeokJong Baek, Carlo Bosi, Simon Lim, and Valeria Sepe are conducted by Zubin Mehta in a live broadcast from Florence
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).
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