Massenet’s Manon

Bidú Sayao was a world-famous Manon, and this performance, her debut at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in February of l937, makes clear why. She temperamentally

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Erwartung

Although the composer himself probably would have denied it strenuously, this music really is great fun. The poetry in “Pierrot Lunaire” is simply the last

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Ariodante

Ariodante, from 1735, comes from one of the composer’s finest periods, one in which his melodic and dramatic invention seem to have been at their

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