6 pieces since 2014.
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.
Quinn Kelsey and Lise Davidsen star in the Met's new Macbeth. We're giving away one ticket, so screw your courage to the sticking place and enter now!
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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