This four-hour-and 25-minute Tristan was recorded over a period of several months (January, April, and November, 1981), one act at a time. It was released
This strangest of all of Beethoven’s strange works is a disputed masterpiece. Not by me, mind you: I find the fact that it keeps you
This utterly traditional, beautiful-looking, stunningly-lit (by Guido Levi) Aida is both emotionally empty and a B-minus “sing”. Mauro Carosi’s sets and costumes are lavish, with
The version of Don Carlo used by Modena in this production is the hybrid Verdi put together in 1886 for this very theater: it is
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,
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