The Russian soprano, generally isolated outside Italy, with sing Abigaille in Verdi’s Nabucco at the Arena di Verona this summer, followed by the title role in Aida.
She will alternate the latter role with Marina Rebeka and Aleksandra Kurzak.
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The Portuguese artist Maria João Pires announced her retirement in 2018, only to bounce back the following year for selected engagements. This year, turning 80, she is offering a holiday gift recital of Mozart and […]
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Early and late feature heavily in this year’s selection, but in the middle a pair of individual performances stand out. The white-hot dramatic impetus of John Osborn’s account of the title role in Meyerbeer’s Le prophète […]
