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As usual with this subject matter, Orlando is the knight nobly torn between love and war, and Alcina is theoretically an evil sorceress. Orlando goes
This muddy-sounding air check from September 19, 1958 is being touted as a rare opportunity to hear the fine Dutch soprano Gré Brouwenstijn as Fidelio,
This is in a class by itself: it is the late choreographer Pina Bausch’s vision of Gluck’s Orfeo, originally produced in Germany in 1975. This
It is now believed that when Verdi said he wanted an “ugly voice” for Lady Macbeth he was overstating his case: what he did not
For the first new production of Verdi’s great Otello at Salzburg since Herbert von Karajan’s in 1970, perhaps the only living conductor with as fierce
This 65-minute opera by English composer Judith Weir premiered in 1994 in London; it was shown in Santa Fe soon after. Weir studied composition with
This is an odd performance. Despite mid-level singing mostly by voices that are not world-class, it has a little-engine-that-could way about it that makes it
You would think that with more than 20 recordings of this opera available, with the likes of Caballé, Sills, Sutherland, Gencer, Gruberova, and Janet Baker
This is the well-known recording–Callas’ first of two Lucias for EMI–that defined the market for many years. Studio-recorded in 1953, it shows Callas at her
On a late summer’s day in Prague in 1970, Holocaust survivor Eliška Kleinová opened a briefcase and handed a pile of music manuscripts to Joza
