First reports from British tenor Freddie de Tommaso’s Metropolitan Opera debut last night speak of standing Os and whoops of approval.
Lise Davidsen, who was singing her first Met Tosca, was applauded before she even opened her larynx.
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Alastair Macaulay writes movingly about a musician he greatly admired: John Cage (1912-1992) died thirty-two years ago today, a few weeks before his eightieth birthday. Merce Cunningham, his life partner, came home from rehearsals […]
“Fine old days”: Boerio (probably)’s 1673 comic intermezzo We are in the world of the commedia dell’arte here. In the early 1670s, soon after Venetian opera became established in Naples, a series of comic figures […]
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