The Italian soprano Elena Mauti Nunziata has died at the age of 77.
She made her name internationally in a 1977 Madrid La traviata that is still considered a benchmark.
She sang 26 times at the Met between 1977 and 1979.
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This is Teodor Currentzis, the Putin collaborator, conducting Bruckner’s 9th last night in Hamburg. The orchestra was his own Utopia pickup band. The post Sleeveless is the new conductor trend appeared first on Slippedisc.
The prime minister has offered a tribute to the contest, presently under way. He writes: The Leeds combines two of my greatest loves: the city that absolutely formed me when I came here as a student; […]
Three new Shakespeare productions opened this week. Nicholas Hytner’s Richard II livened up London’s Bridge. Tom Hiddleston shed his shirt in Much Ado About Nothing at Theatre Royal Drury Lane. And Rupert Goold directed a revised Hamlet with […]
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