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Here is an opera plot that makes Il trovatore play like King Lear. Lovely, innocent, mad-as-a-hatter Dinorah (soprano) has only her pet goat Bellah (a
There’s no dearth of fine Orfeo recordings on the market:
In her recording of Orfeo and elsewhere, conductor Emmanuelle Haïm
Verdi referred to Traviata as a “subject of our time”, and he got in trouble for presenting contemporary characters on stage, especially those with shaky
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
Were I inclined to study and report on the performance history of this opera–during Berlioz’s lifetime alone–it would take far too long and not be
Donizetti’s La fille du régiment is a charming if vaguely empty-headed work, certainly more a French operetta than Italian opera buffa. It’s a work impossible
Bellini’s I Capuleti e I Montecchi was a great success at its Venice premiere in March, 1830, and it soon made the rounds of other
More than a dozen years ago a very fine recording of this opera appeared on RCA, starring Frederica von Stade, June Anderson, Samuel Ramey, and
This stunning work is one of the 50 operas composed on the subject of the bloody rivalry between the Tartar tyrant Tamerlano, whose methods of
