The Barber of Seville has a well-earned position in the opera canon. Filled with delightful music – often familiar from…
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Call him Don Giovanni or call him Don Juan, he is a character on to whom the morality of a…
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(Note: video illustrations offer renditions of classic “Tosca” arias by other artists.) In 1900, the year of Tosca’s premiere, Michele…
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No spoiler alerts necessary here. Even if you did not study Shakespeare’s Othello in high school, certainly you have picked…
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In 1902, when Pelléas & Mélisande debuted, impressionistic painting had already come to a head. The impressionists had produced hazy…
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