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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.
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
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;
Nonesuch’s 1987 recording of this opera, produced when the work was new, was revelatory. Though clearly a piece of mimimalism, it did not rely only
Q: Who knew this existed? A: Austrian Broadcasting. Yes, it’s been in their “vaults”, waiting for who-knows-what, and just last year they asked Carlos Kleiber–a
The SFSO’s proprietary label offers a Mahler Eighth with some impressive elements: all of the female singers, the excellent SFSO Chorus (and the best choir
Saint François d’Assise is unique among operas. Decidedly anti-dramatic (there is little or no action), it fulfills Messiaen’s aim to present the journey of St.
There have been about a dozen recordings of Bluebeard’s Castle; it is ideally suited to the medium. Every production of it I have seen has
The Ricci brothers, Luigi and Federico, were well known in the middle of the 19th century for their charming comic operas, but left to his
