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Maria di Rohan, one of Donizetti’s last operas, is also one of his leanest. It was composed for Vienna in 1843 for an audience that
Ermione is Rossini’s darkest, angriest opera. It was such a resounding flop at its premiere that after its initial run Rossini withdrew it entirely. It
The excerpts presented here are from operas composed between 1818 and 1828, when the very prolific Donizetti was under the influence both of his teacher,
Anna Bolena took Milan by storm at the end of December, 1830, and it was heard all over Italy in the following months; in May
The Ricci brothers, Luigi and Federico, were well known in the middle of the 19th century for their charming comic operas, but left to his
Jennifer Larmore starred in Teldec’s 1997 complete recording (in Italian) of this opera, and along with Marilyn Horne’s (Erato) theirs have been the benchmark recordings
This newest Opera in English release from Chandos features 79 minutes of Bizet’s Pearl Fishers, which means that less than a half-hour of the opera
We all know that Italian composers went “Scots crazy” at some point in the early 19th century, with Rossini’s La donna del lago and Donizetti’s
Very few operas work as well in translation as Mozart’s. Not only are there lots of words, but they mean somethihg–and nuances are crucial. This
Thanks to Chandos’ amazing ability to record the English language (the label really ought to patent it), 80 percent of Amanda Holden’s fine translation of
