It used to be proverbial on the Met Opera Quiz, usually quoted by quiz master Edward Downes: “If you can’t remember where a certain plot event occurs … it happens in La Gioconda.”
C-major has made available the first DVD/Blu-ray of Franco Faccio’s Amleto.
The grand illusion is that we know it all. From four hundred years of opera, we’ve distilled the worthy survivors.
My memory is fading but the events I recall most vividly of the last season seem largely to have been concert performances.
A young friend messaged me to ask if I knew Rossini’s Macbeth.
The rediscovery of Franco Faccio’s Amleto, a curious score that last week, via Baltimore Concert Opera, received its first performances since 1871, reminds us just how tough an act Giuseppe Verdi was to follow.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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