Second casts in Don Giovanni and Turandot at the Metropolitan Opera offer mixed blessings.
This summer’s festival, taking place amid record high temperatures and in the wake of its artistic director, Pierre Audi, featured a disquietingly zeigeisty focus on sexual violence.
A live broadcast from the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence
Konstantin Krimmel plays the title role in a live broadcast from Munich
A fine Don Giovanni at Opera Philadelphia rounds out the company’s inaugural season under Anthony Roth Costanzo
Tell us: What’s your favorite Verdi performance?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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