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Elina Garanca is great on stage; I have seen her live often, and watching her on DVDs (Carmen, Cenerentola) will allow readers who have never
“‘In our album we trace this quest for peace across different lands and eras.” So states mezzo Elina Garanca in the notes accompanying this CD
Looking over the lineup for this production, you wonder, without an Italian within earshot (save for the orchestra and chorus), will the remarkable combination of
When soprano Emma Eames sang Aida around the turn of the 20th century in Boston, a critic wrote, “Emma Eames appeared as Aida last night.
British director Richard Eyre’s Carmen was recorded on January 16, 2010 at the Met, just weeks after its premiere. He has updated the opera from
It’s a pity that this had to be released on the heels of Decca’s brand-new version of the opera from Barcelona’s Liceu; that one is
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,
The remarkably beautiful Latvian mezzo Elina Garanca possesses a voice of equal beauty: there’s not a note on this CD that lacks warmth, sheen, or
This compendium of Mozart arias, duets, and a trio, a couple of which have been released before (the two “Flute” arias, by Pape and Miklosa,
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
