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La Forza del Destino

La Forza del Destino is a Verdi masterpiece. Extraordinary melodies, extreme emotions, violence, confrontation, challenging main roles, and great chor...
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Aureliano in Palmira

The public realised that 21-year-old Rossini was something special in 1813 after the success of Signor Bruschino and Italiana in Algeri. But Aureliano...
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Eduardo E Cristina

Rossini had under a month to compose Eduardo.  Eduardo was a ‘centone’(patchwork) opera, as 19/26 numbers were ‘borrowed’ from earlier operas -in part...
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Don Carlo

Verdi’s Don Carlo is the longest and arguably the greatest Verdi opera, based on Schiller’s play set in Phillip II’s Spain. There are multiple version...
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Armida

Having seen Plzeň’s new traditional production of Armida three days before, I looked forward to seeing Prague’s new interpretation. The synopsis in my...
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Werther

Massenet’s Werther is based on Goethe’s  epistolary novel, ‘The Sorrows of Young Werther’, published in 1774. Some, myself included, regard it as Mass...