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This not-quite-persuasive performance from Parma has many vocal felicities to recommend it. Its major problems are with the staging. Director Liliana Cavani has plenty of
Rumor has it that the audiences in Parma used to be the strictest and least forgiving in the world; booing singers off the stage who
Here is another fine entry in the “Tutto Verdi” series from C Major Entertainment and Unitel, this time a performance of Luisa Miller from Parma,
Recorded live at Esplanade–Theatres on the Bay in Singapore on November 22 and 23, 2010, this DVD also comes in a BluRay and 3-D format.
First off, the CD version of this performance (OPOZ56034CD) is out of the running: the sound is matte-finished and somewhat muffled and the orchestra occasionally
Verdi composed I masnadieri, based on a play by Schiller, for Her Majesty’s Theatre, the Haymarket, in London. It was premiered in 1847 and was
By now there is no argument: Benjamin Britten’s 1954 The Turn of the Screw is a masterpiece on the level of Henry James’ 1898 novella
In Cendrillon by Jules Massenet (1895) Joyce DiDonato again serves notice that she is one of the most treasurable opera singers in the world. She
Thanks to Idéale Audience, Bruno Monsaingeon’s fascinating 1998 documentary film Richter the Enigma finally appears on DVD formatted for Region One playback. Sviatoslav Richter may
The Met is not known for its Handel productions; the composer would hardly know what to do with 4,000 spectators unless they were on the
