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Donizetti’s La fille du régiment is a charming if vaguely empty-headed work, certainly more a French operetta than Italian opera buffa. It’s a work impossible
This is a provincial performance of the Italian version of Donizetti’s La fille du régiment. Or rather, most of it is; the charming first-act aria
This modern-dress production takes place in what I first thought was an airport lounge but later realized was a men’s club, complete with leather chairs,
Marino Faliero was Donizetti’s 46th opera, the one that directly preceded Lucia. It premiered in Paris in 1835 with the same cast that had taken
With many fine recordings of this opera starring the likes of Janet Baker, Beverly Sills, Joan Sutherland, Montserrat Caballé, Leyla Gencer, and Edita Gruberova available,
This is a lovely souvenir of a bygone era and style, and it’s also a delightful performance in its own right. Filmed in somewhat faded
Composed for Venice in 1837, just a year-and-a-half after the fantastic success of Lucia di Lammermoor, Pia de’ Tolomei “pleased altogether”, in the composer’s words.
This 1977 performance boasts the finest Dulcamara on disc–Geraint Evans–in a performance both unique in its lack of buffo bluster and in its remarkable “face”;
Elvida was first given in Naples in 1826 for the birthday of the queen. This one-hour one-acter was just a portion of a gala evening
Arts Music has repackaged its world-premiere edition of Donizetti’s complete solo piano music as a boxed set. Until this cycle first appeared in the late
