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Can a recording be too lifelike? Here’s a puzzle for you. This Ravel recital is very well played and amazingly well recorded, and yet the
Puccini said that he wanted his 1917 La rondine to be seen as “a reaction to the repulsive music of today, to world war music.”
On some level, this Trovatore didn’t really need to be a video. The opera is set in an eternal night, with moonlight moodily illuminating what
Having practically waxed poetic recently about the Traviata from Madrid starring Norah Amsellem, I’m feeling a bit fickle: the one under consideration here, the hit
Conductor Carlo Rizzi could take the life out of any tenor recital, no matter who the tenor–Caruso could lose his bite, Pavarotti his hanky. This
This stunning new Traviata, fresh from the stage of the Salzburg Festival last summer (2005), is a performance to live with. There’s a big hole
There’s no doubt that Juan Diego Florez is the Rossini tenor of our time; his fluency with coloratura, rhythmic accuracy, long breath, lovely tone, and
After Salvatore Licitra’s last-minute stand-in for an ailing Pavarotti at the Met’s gala Tosca and his much praised performance on Sony’s live-from-La Scala Trovatore, there
