This is what they did at the Staatsoper when Jonas sang Bajazzo this week for the first time in Vienna.
The Italian tenor Luciano Ganci jumped in as Turiddu in place of the unwell Jonathan Tetelman.
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Two of the most captivating violinists that ever drew bow across strings play the Beethoven concerto with the same conductor, the phlegmatic Sir Adrian Boult. Comparison does not get closer. The post Compare and contrast: […]
The Prague composer Viktor Ullmann was incarcerated by the Nazis in the Theresiendstadt concentration camp before being sent to be killed in Auschwitz in October 1944. Ullmann is mostly remembered for his concentration camp opera, […]
The NY Times reports the death of Jean-Philippe Allard, founder of the jazz division at PolyGram France (now Universal). Allard revived the careers of two generations of sidelined jazz artists, having first failed at a […]
