First of all, the choice made to cast Buzza and Battistelli in the roles at all seem an odd choice given the amount of other young singers there who hold much higher competencies in both singing, ...
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“Il Segreto di Susanna” is an operatic gem; and, in addition, stands as the only composition by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari to boast some kind of posterity, however tepid. An opera intermezzo, it takes up ...
National Sawdust’s Sparks & Wiry Cries will present two events this February. On the 7th, the organization will showcase its ninth annual “songSLAM” which showcases the talents of 15 composers, ...
Diversity initiatives might be coming to an end in the United States’ Federal government and discrimination seems to be okay again, per the U.S. President’s latest decrees, but several opera companies ...
The curtain rose on Egyptian tombs. In the center, a rope came down and with it an archeologist. As he reached the bottom to get off the rope, he fell to the ground, the sound of his body crashing ...