
I due Foscari is Verdi’s other opera about a Doge, this one tricked into believing that his son is a murderer. Unlike Simon Boccanegra, our
Composed five years after his Anna Bolena, Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda does not quite reach the level of through-composed sophistication or pathos as the earlier opera;
This performance is oddly dead-in-the-water. You would think that the lovely Natalie Dessay, so expressive, so delicate, would be right for the fragile, loving, innocent
Bianca e Falliero is Rossini’s 30th opera; he composed it for La Scala in 1819. At the time, he was experimenting with form at his