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Composer of a bunch of chamber music as well as 15 operas, most of which are comic, the half-German, half-Italian Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari is rarely heard
Billed as the first disc in a complete Wolf-Ferrari orchestral works edition, this release offers some 77 minutes of relentlessly charming, emotionally undemanding music. In
Bulgarian soprano Krassimira Stoyanova is a mightily impressive singer, both on stage and also on CD, judging from this, her first solo recital (she has
This new production of Bellini’s Norma by Jürgen Rose (sets, costumes, stage direction, and lighting) to honor Edita Gruberova’s first staged assumption of the title
This production, by Andrei Serban with sets and costumes by Michael Yeargan, originally was conceived for the Welsh National Opera in a co-production with the
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,
You would not think that a part with as many low-lying and darkly exclamatory passages–not to mention one described by Lotte Lehmann as “more difficult
I approached this three-disc set with great enthusiasm. Richard Strauss composed orchestral songs throughout his entire career–from 1885 to 1948–and they are fascinating, sometimes as
