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Having conquered the lyric tenor roles (Alfredo, Nemorino, Hoffmann) and impressed in more heavy repertoire (Werther, Don Carlo, Rodolfo), while singing each role with a
One need only watch Angela Gheorghiu as Tosca, scratching her chin in puzzlement as she tries to figure out who Cavaradossi’s painting of Mary Magdalene
Phyllida Lloyd, possibly better known by now as a film director (“Mamma Mia,” “The Iron Lady”), directed this production when it was new in 2002;
Despite the fact that the world needs no more recordings of this opera—at least a half-dozen of those available fall into the “superb” category—this one
Jonas Kaufmann is the tenor-du-jour, and it’s easy to see why: Siegmund, Alfredo, Werther, Cavaradossi, Don José, Lohengrin–who does he think he is, Placido Domingo?
This performance, recorded in July, 2009 at Covent Garden, has become known as the Barbiere in which Joyce DiDonato sang from a wheelchair, having broken
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
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
This terrifically-cast and conducted Carmen goes to the top of the list, which is saying a great deal given the quality of the competition: Julia
There are 69 complete recordings of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly currently available. The title role has been recorded by such illustrious–and vocally and stylistically different–sopranos as
