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With dozens of good recordings of this opera currently available, this release, recorded live in Vienna in 1978, is notable for being a document of
If you’re looking for a first rate, inexpensive set of
It’s often forgotten that Solti conducted the orchestra at Strauss’
Lucrezia Borgia is not one of Donizetti’s masterpieces, but it nonetheless can be enormously stageworthy. Despite a wonderful piece or two for tenor and baritone
This new production of Bellini’s Norma by Jürgen Rose (sets, costumes, stage direction, and lighting) to honor Edita Gruberova’s first staged assumption of the title
This production, by Andrei Serban with sets and costumes by Michael Yeargan, originally was conceived for the Welsh National Opera in a co-production with the
This modern-dress production takes place in what I first thought was an airport lounge but later realized was a men’s club, complete with leather chairs,
There are a few nice things to be found in this hour of Die Zauberflöte, mostly from the sopranos. We get both arias of the
You would not think that a part with as many low-lying and darkly exclamatory passages–not to mention one described by Lotte Lehmann as “more difficult
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
