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This gorgeous-looking production from Barcelona’s Teatro Liceu was recorded June 30th and July 1st, 2010. Gilbert Deflo is the director. The sets and costumes by
This perky, impressive Figaro from the Australian Opera has much to recommend it. It has an interesting, skewed period look: Designer Dale Ferguson’s heavy draperies,
If the idea of watching a Mass on DVD doesn’t seem all that inspiring, consider that the work in question is Janácek’s powerful Glagolitic Mass.
Don Pasquale was Donizetti’s last comedy and it’s a funny, sometimes subtle work, with finely drawn characters. Malatesta and Norina are playful and sarcastic and
Verdi referred to Traviata as a “subject of our time”, and he got in trouble for presenting contemporary characters on stage, especially those with shaky
In the third act of Tosca our heroine advises Mario how to behave when the “fake” execution takes place. “Com’e la Tosca in teatro,” she
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
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,
Opera never has shown its contrasts more than in this Rigoletto from the Sächsische Staatskapelle in Dresden. The production is full of harsh conflicts, which
