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Monthly Archives: October 2013
“One that lov’d not wisely but too well”: Antonenko a thrilling Otello
Verdi: Otello Riccardo Muti/Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO Resound) As destiny would have it, the latest disc to land on the review pile following my final report on the gigantic Tutto Verdi box was this concert recording of Otello from Chicago. … Continue reading
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Tagged Aleksandrs Antonenko, Carlo Guelfi, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, IRR, Krassimira Stoyanova, Michael Spyres, Otello, Riccardo Muti, Verdi
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Netrebko’s Tatyana is worth the wait!
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin **** Metropolitan Opera, 5th October 2013 I’ve waited thirteen impatient years for this. Covent Garden, July 2000: the Mariinsky Opera (or the Kirov Opera as it was then titled) rolled into town for a Russian season of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexei Tanovitski, Anna Netrebko, Deborah Warner, Elena Zaremba, Eugene Onegin, Fiona Shaw, John Graham-Hall, Larissa Diadkova, Mariusz Kwiecien, Metropolitan Opera, Oksana Volkova, Piotr Beczała, Tchaikovsky, Valery Gergiev
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