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The curtain rises and we are…nowhere, but it’s very light and bright. Scenery and costumes are black, white, silver, and gold, and variations within those
This CD, recorded live on June 24, 2008, is a response to those who think/say that there are no fine Verdi baritones and sopranos anymore–i.e.,
My count may be slightly off, but there are approximately seven separate recorded performances of La traviata starring Maria Callas, all but one taken from
Opera never has shown its contrasts more than in this Rigoletto from the Sächsische Staatskapelle in Dresden. The production is full of harsh conflicts, which
This 2010 revival of Simon Boccanegra from the Met was designed to showcase Placido Domingo’s undertaking of the title role, normally sung by a baritone.
This handsome production comes from Covent Garden; it was recorded in 2008. Stage director Nicholas Hytner and conductor Antonio Pappano use the five-act version of
About the time I started collecting LPs, everyone was agog over Toscanini’s Verdi Requiem and Te Deum. The transfers were so bad you couldn’t prove
If you love Verdi’s Requiem as much as I do you can get awfully picky about modern recordings of the work. But there’s not much
It is now believed that when Verdi said he wanted an “ugly voice” for Lady Macbeth he was overstating his case: what he did not
For the first new production of Verdi’s great Otello at Salzburg since Herbert von Karajan’s in 1970, perhaps the only living conductor with as fierce
