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This was recorded live in Salzburg last August (2016) and is probably a patchwork made up of parts of the three performances given then. Audience
I won’t attempt comparisons; they really don’t pay anymore when it comes to Anna Netrebko. And so no mention of Callas in the Wally, Chenier,
Tchaikovsky’s final opera, Iolanta, is a brief affair in one act, slightly more than 90 minutes long. It’s not a masterpiece, but it has a
This work, in its entirety by Rossini (an earlier version,
I think Anna Netrebko is by now review-proof, and possibly criticism proof: even her warm relationship with and support for Vladimir Putin, despite his attitude
Don Pasquale was Donizetti’s last comedy and it’s a funny, sometimes subtle work, with finely drawn characters. Malatesta and Norina are playful and sarcastic and
The Met’s “new” production of Lucia di Lammermoor, which happily replaced Francesca Zambello’s catastrophic staging (coffins everywhere) late in 2007, has been updated by Mary
Three new releases this month (March) feature tenor Rolando Villazon–a CD of Zarzuela arias, one of works by Monteverdi, and this new DVD of a
Here is another terrific performance of this opera, better even in some ways than those starring Kasarova and Mei, Gruberova and Baltsa, Baker and Sills,
It will be interesting to hear the reaction to this performance, taped live at the Met on January 6, 2007. Anna Netrebko is so close
