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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
This new (summer of 2009) Cosi from the Zurich Opera house has a great deal of charm, it looks and sounds good, and it pulls
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that this recording catches the pastoral, small-village ambiance of La sonnambula better than any other
The prologue to this Ariadne, a Zurich opera house performance from December 2006, takes place in front of the curtain, on a bare stage and
The first thing you notice about this performance is the mellow approach to the orchestra taken by conductor Franz Welser-Möst. From the start, the orchestra
This David Pountney production of Britten’s Peter Grimes from the Zurich Opera opens on a puzzling scene. The set design by Robert Israel clearly depicts
This beautiful-looking Aida, a production of the Zurich Opera House and filmed there in May, 2006, definitely will turn a few heads. Director Nicolas Joel,
Premiered in Venice in 1833 with Giuditta Pasta (the original Norma) in the title role, Beatrice di Tenda was greeted luke-warmly, but it became successful
