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If you are looking for an English-language, four-act version of Don Carlos, this is for you. But I doubt you are. Andrew Porter’s translation is
Where does one start in discussing Shostakovich’s The Nose? Funnier than the last quartet, more laden with irony than Babi Yar? Well, it’s a start.
The first four Record of Singing boxed sets surveyed a fairly broad compass of significant singers from 1899 to the early 1950s. Volume 5 spans
Composed in 1828 and later revised, Alina is a delight. Written for the amazing tenor Giovanni Battista Rubini and his wife Serafina, it was well
Before Otto Nicolai wrote the major work for which he is known–The Merry Wives of Windsor–he wrote Italian operas, of which Il Templario, first shown
The Met’s “new” production of Lucia di Lammermoor, which happily replaced Francesca Zambello’s catastrophic staging (coffins everywhere) late in 2007, has been updated by Mary
Anna Bolena took Milan by storm at the end of December, 1830, and it was heard all over Italy in the following months; in May
Three new releases this month (March) feature tenor Rolando Villazon–a CD of Zarzuela arias, one of works by Monteverdi, and this new DVD of a
For most of us, there has been only one Marie and one Tonio–Sutherland and Pavarotti. They took their show on the road in the ’70s
Composed five years after his Anna Bolena, Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda does not quite reach the level of through-composed sophistication or pathos as the earlier opera;
