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There are only a couple of reasons to hear this performance, and practically none for seeing it. I believe it is the only video remnant
The curtain rises and we are…nowhere, but it’s very light and bright. Scenery and costumes are black, white, silver, and gold, and variations within those
Prior to this release most lovers of operatic esoterica only knew the name Lauro Rossi (1812-1885) because he composed the Agnus Dei of the Mass
Robert Craft’s performance of The Rite of Spring, rescued from oblivion on Koch, proves that in the early ballets he can be both accurate as
My count may be slightly off, but there are approximately seven separate recorded performances of La traviata starring Maria Callas, all but one taken from
DG reissues its late-1980s Levine/Met Ring cycle as a budget-priced, space-saving boxed set, providing serious competition for similarly packaged editions of Wagner’s Der Ring des
It’s good to have Elijah Moshinsky’s 1993 production of Richard Strauss’ ironically lovely Ariadne on DVD. Michael Yeargan sets the Prologue backstage with scaffolding, ladders,
Lovers of historic vocal recordings may know about the Hamburger Archiv für Gesangskunst (Hamburg Archive for the Art of Singing), or HAFG, which is responsible
It was about time for a new recording of Giordano’s not-quite-great potboiler, Fedora, but this one adds little to the mix. It’s a great vehicle
This is an hour and 17 minutes of music culled from Pearl’s huge catalog of dead great singers. The sound is typically mediocre, but the
