Some of the greatest operas are also the most difficult to shove into a narrow category. Others have layer upon layer, which makes them endlessly fascinating. “The Ghosts of Versailles” — the “grand ...
The San Francisco Opera's third offering of the fall season, Donizetti's melodic bit of fluff Don Pasquale opened last week at the War Memorial in an amusing staging that also showed a rather cynical ...
WHEN the Teatro Colón, Latin America's most famous opera house, closed for refurbishment in November 2006, Buenos Aires city officials vowed that it would reopen in time for its centenary on May 25th ...
On the east face of Monte Colodri in Arco (Sarca Valley, Italy) Alessandro Beber and Matteo Pavana have established the multi-pitch rock climb Opera Buffa (270m, 7c+). Beber reports. The east face of ...
This excellent and very readable biography of Gioachino Rossini does not pretend to tell us anything new about his music. For that we can go elsewhere. But Gaia Servadio has written a lively, ...
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