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Despite, or more possibly because of Claus Guth’s cold, distancing direction on Michael Levine’s even chillier and cruel sets, this performance of Leoš Janácek’s Jenufa,
Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes owes its existence to the culminating
Wow! Apparently private recordings of this performance (or one given
King Roger of Sicily is at Mass when word of a man who has been preaching around the countryside arrives. The “heretic”, who calls himself
L’Amico Fritz, Mascagni’s second opera, is as unlike his first
There used to be an old line about leaving the theater humming the scenery; often it applied to Franco Zeffirelli-like productions–lavish, flowery, big-boned, visually melodious
This “find”, a BBC recording of a live 1961 performance at Covent Garden of Georg Solti conducting what is now his first recorded Walküre (the
From a purely vocal point of view, this version of
Precisely why this recording—made live at Covent Garden in 1973—is
Booklet writer Raymond Tuttle mentions that Jean Morel’s Decca recording
