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Harnoncourt fans will be excited to know that their hero […]
Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s revisionist assault on Verdi continues. After a disastrous
Riccardo Chailly has brought local repertoire to the fore in his two years at the helm of La Scala, and his first release as principal
When you hear the opening “soldier’s chorus” (“Gloire immortelle de nos aïeux”) from Gounod’s Faust you may be reminded for a moment of something the
I due Foscari is Verdi’s other opera about a Doge, this one tricked into believing that his son is a murderer. Unlike Simon Boccanegra, our
Dead center of what Verdi referred to as his “galley years” comes Giovanna d’Arco. It is his seventh opera, and though not as bad as
The first time I saw La traviata it was the
This updating of Verdi’s La traviata by director Tom Cairns and designer Hildegard Bechtler adds little to the opera, but neither does it detract. The
Since there are dozens of recordings of Il trovatore available,
Clearly, the draw for this recording is the Boccanegra of Dmitri Hvorostovsky, whose legions of fans will flock to their local or online record mart
