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Well, we’re safe in the knowledge that Maestro Currentzis has now run out of Mozart-Da Ponte operas. His note-by-note, string-by-string examination of each score has
Despite some qualification, Glyndebourne’s new Figaro (summer 2012) is a delight. The curtain opens during the overture on the outside of a Spanish mansion—just what
The early-’60s Joan Sutherland/Decca recording of this opera–despite a large orchestra, cuts, Sutherland-without-consonants and at times sounding morose, with a showy aria given to Alcina
The incomplete manuscript of this opera was discovered in Berlin only in 2002; much of the first and third acts are missing. Only 17 of
Rodelinda was the third in a string of great operas Handel composed in 1724-25, Giulio Cesare and Tamerlano being the other two. Cesare and Tamerlano
First performed in 1729 and quickly forgotten, Lotario is a worthy work with plenty of effective arias and a duet, with characters and intrigues that
