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Not to Worry, Opera Fans-Cooperstown’s in Fine Shape
At New York City Opera a few years ago, there were cries of worry in the always fretful tribe of
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James Levine: A Maestro At the Top of His Game
Classical music lovers do not, as a rule, follow their favorite performers with the obsessive attention to statistical achievement that
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Manhattan Music
Met’s Brilliant Young Singers Offer Pleasure-and Hope In all the talk about how to rebuild in the rubble of the
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Lear-Like Bryn Terfel Warms a Heartless Falstaff
That Verdi was the most Shakespearean of composers was no accident. Speaking of his passionate devotion to the Bard in
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Hopes Dashed at City Opera As Dead Man Walking Disappoints
Isaiah Berlin, in his essay “The Naiveté of Verdi,” describes the Italian composer as “the last great complete, self-fulfilled creator,
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Is Licitra Tomorrow’s Tenor? The Heir Apparent Appraised
The setting was Cleveland’s vast Public Auditorium; the opera was Verdi’s La Forza del Destino ; and the Metropolitan Opera’s
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Replacing Doak
Yesterday’s item on adman David Doak‘s all-but-official departure from the Ferrer campaign prompted a funny pair of responses: firm denials
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Freddy’s Third Guru
A few days ago, The Politicker referred to Ellis Verdi, Freddy’s new adman, as having had an “abortive cameo” in
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The Electric Conductor: Riccardo Muti Returns to NY with a Thrilling,...
On Friday evening, the conductor Riccardo Muti made his biggest play yet for New York. Mr. Muti is a brilliant,
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LoftOpera ‘Macbeth’ Is a Case of Sibling Revelry
Stepsiblings Brianna Maury and Daniel Ellis-Ferris promise to make Verdi's "Macbeth" the coolest show in Brooklyn.
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Almost Like Being in Love: ‘La Traviata’ Blazes at the Met
Soprano Sonya Yoncheva and tenor Michael Fabiano fascinate in Verdi's music drama.
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Met Revivals Bring New Life to Verdi Operas…Sometimes
Late-season Verdi revivals at the Metropolitan Opera live or die by stage direction.
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