When soprano Yihan Duan started to sing her aria, you could feel an almost electric charge that something special was happening.
The 2016 Richard Tucker Award recipient is Tamara Wilson.
The good news is that the first concert was devoted to the exceptional artistry of Lawrence Brownlee.
Imagine two tenors releasing French opera aria collections at the same time without duplicating a single track!
Today, in 1848, one of the titans of Italian opera, Gaetano Donizetti, passed away in his native Bergamo at age 51. It would be perhaps more appropriate to say that his body died on this date, as his mind, ravaged by syphilis, had already abandoned him a few years earlier, so much that he had…
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
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