The second act of Verdi’s breathrough opera opened with two bangs at the Arena di Verona. The first was a production effect. The second was a thunderbolt from heaven.
The show’s opening night was abandoned.
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Opera Theater of St. Louis has named international soprano Patricia Racette as its next artistic director. Racette, 59, is still singing major roles in Italy. The post St Louis picks Patricia appeared first on Slippedisc.
by Barry Lenson Heroic and Troubled in Life, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Stands at the Pinnacle of Romantic Russian Music Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, born on May 7, 1840, in Votkinsk, Russia, is indisputably one of the […]
We understand that the Department for Giovernment Efficiency has terminated all four of the American Musicological Society’s NEH grants. The Societys executive director writes: ‘As the chief operating officer for the American Musicological Society, a […]
