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It is very hard lately to get worked up about 14th century Swiss oppression by the Austrians. I recently realized that it wasn’t merely the
First seen in 1828 at the Paris Opera, Le Comte Ory was Rossini’s penultimate opera and his last comedy. Six numbers were “borrowed” from Il
Opera never has shown its contrasts more than in this Rigoletto from the Sächsische Staatskapelle in Dresden. The production is full of harsh conflicts, which
This performance, recorded in July, 2009 at Covent Garden, has become known as the Barbiere in which Joyce DiDonato sang from a wheelchair, having broken
Good for Juan Diego Florez for this release! I’m second to none in my love for the bel cantists, but it’s good to hear a
Rossini’s La Cenerentola has not wanted for fine recordings; performances with Berganza, Bartoli, Baltsa, Larmore (and even Simionato), and others have appeared on CD, and
Because Louis XVI and the French disliked the castrato sound, Gluck re-wrote his 1762 opera for high, light tenor; in keeping with French taste he
For most of us, there has been only one Marie and one Tonio–Sutherland and Pavarotti. They took their show on the road in the ’70s
This CD will make you wish you could sing. Happily not called “Florez and Friends”, it’s a collection of arias and duets by the three
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that this recording catches the pastoral, small-village ambiance of La sonnambula better than any other
