
Having recently watched and reviewed the 2013 Salzburg Festival’s Così fan tutte and disliked it, and recalling a Don Giovanni from the same festival a
This work, in its entirety by Rossini (an earlier version,
I suspect that a better-cast Don Giovanni than this one would be hard to find nowadays. With ideal or near-ideal singers in six of the
In order to underline the “universality” of the Don Giovanni story, this otherwise quite traditionally presented production changes scenery and costumes with almost every scene,
Verdi’s Requiem as a party record? Yes, if it’s saddled with the vocally challenged Andrea Bocelli. Lots of laughs here from the tenor: listen to