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This, Rossini’s 34th, is his longest and last Italian opera. It is a behemoth–just under four hours of music, with a 10-minute overture, a 25-minute,
As if not being familiar with Welsh soprano Ruby Hughes
All’s well, everything precisely where it should be with this
Antal Dorati’s complete set of Haydn symphonies has been the
One of the things that those particularly fond of the Classical era in music love is the formality, the predictability, and the changes that can
Coming in at a tidy three hours and eight minutes, Donizetti’s huge Les Martyrs, composed (or adapted) for Paris in 1840, is here presented in
This 2007 performance, recorded live at Glyndebourne, is up there with the best available: the one starring Jennifer Larmore on Warner, the old Decca set
Despite some qualification, Glyndebourne’s new Figaro (summer 2012) is a delight. The curtain opens during the overture on the outside of a Spanish mansion—just what
This production, from Glyndebourne, is a pain in the neck. The plot is well-known: taking place during the First Crusade, the knight Rinaldo must choose
Theodora is an oratorio and not an opera. It is a pious piece, with an unambiguously Christian subject matter. It first appeared in 1750 at
