Long, narrative melodies start, move up, curl back for a few notes, rise again, turn in on themselves, flowing like rivers of beautiful sound to their long conclusion.
Is Falstaff a casual, end of career “farewell tour” simply to prove the critics who claimed Verdi could not write comedy wrong? Far from it.
The score of Lohengrin is a supreme achievement, staking out the territory for Romantic music to follow.
Americans in Paris! It was Yankee takeover night at Radio France’s fabulous Seine-side concert hall.
Director Richard Jones remodels the familiar, fine-tuning to modern times.
The Teatro Real team has polished something of a jewel that sheds fascinating light on Spanish court opera of the 18th century.
Glimmerglass, the opera festival directed by Colaneri, is a musical Hogwarts.
Czech stage director David Radok is familiar with the venue, meaning La Traviata exploited the building’s dimensions to the full.
Francis Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites may be grounded in French revolutionary terror but its tragic themes still resonate today.
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