
While I cannot imagine anyone actually needing this CD, it has some pleasures to offer. Roberto Alagna, once the Wunderkind, so-called Fourth Tenor, never quite
It’s a mystery to me why the Te Deum isn’t
Who ever would have guessed that Puccini’s 1917 La rondine, his stepchild, would be available in five different video performances? It will take a lot
British director Richard Eyre’s Carmen was recorded on January 16, 2010 at the Met, just weeks after its premiere. He has updated the opera from
This was recorded at La Scala during the controversial run of performances in December, 2006 that featured Roberto Alagna’s infamous departure from the stage after
This new Christmas Album featuring opera tenor Roberto Alagna is just what you would expect from a production designed for a big-time super-star singer, what
There is something irresistible about Angela Gheorghiu’s voice. You might think its dusky, grainy bottom and middle and the purity and gleam of the top
This is a performance of Donizetti’s 1839 revision for Paris of his 1835 Lucia di Lammermoor. It isn’t merely a translation of the Italian: the
In 1839 Donizetti had the opportunity to present his by-then famous and popular Lucia di Lammermoor in Paris. Since the available voices were slightly different
After recital discs devoted to bel canto, French opera, and Berlioz, Roberto Alagna here tries to put an individual stamp on some very familiar tenor
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