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This live performance from RAI Rome in 1958 is a fine if literal (there are no embellishments to arias) reading of this lovely work. It
We’re out of our tenor-poor period. In the past 10 years Alvarez, Licitra, Florez, Vargas, and Alagna have begun to truly impress, and to that
Anton Schweitzer (1735-87) was the music director at the Weimar court at the same time that the German poet Christoph Martin Wieland (who is given
If you don’t know the music of Vagn Holmboe, a Danish modern who is considered that country’s greatest composer behind Nielsen, you should. His 1963
I wish I could be more positive about this new recording of one of the true masterpieces of 20th century opera, but the sad fact
In 1839 Donizetti had the opportunity to present his by-then famous and popular Lucia di Lammermoor in Paris. Since the available voices were slightly different
Yes, it’s only January, but I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if this disc turns out to be one of the great events of 2003.
This exciting and accomplished performance of Beethoven’s Ninth conclusively proves that neither Roger Norrington nor that pathetically scrappy pick-up orchestra gathered together under the deceptively
By now the glories of Juan Diego Florez’s voice and the way he uses it should be well known: a stunning agility wedded to sweetness;
With only a single Italian on board, we have a right to expect something less than an idiomatic performance. But Olivero de Fabritiis, hardly anyone’s
