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Puccini’s Turandot was hardly in need of another recording. Extremely well-served on CD and video ( I recently counted 16 on CD and 14 on
This performance memorializes a stupid stunt. One singer trying to
This production, from the Salzburg Easter Festival in March and April of 2015, may feature some faulty singing, but it stands as one of the
Jonas Kaufmann has been around now long enough for any glaring faults to have appeared and been criticized; the best we’ve been able to do
Projects such as this can go so horribly wrong. Opera singers trying to perform “lighter” fare usually do no favors either to themselves or to
One might speculate as to why this 2008 performance of Carmen from Zurich has just been released, but frankly, it is not quite worth the
Since Wieland Wagner’s “revolution” in staging, it is nearly impossible to watch a performance of Parsifal, unless it is done literally, following Wagner’s stage directions,
When this Metropolitan Opera production of Gounod’s Faust opened near the end of 2011, it was met with almost universal scorn, or less critically, puzzlement.
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
One keeps searching in vain for flaws in Jonas Kaufmann’s performances—an attack on a high note that’s slightly under, a shortness of breath, a diminuendo
