It is hard to believe that Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème could have failed at its premiere in Turin in 1896, when it was conducted by the 28-year-old Toscanini. It’s one of the great tearjerkers of all ...
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Giacomo Puccini’s Il Trittico had its premiere in New York in 1918. He had long wanted to do a collection of operas in one night. Impresarios are not keen on double-bills, let alone triple bills. Audi ...
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Robert Tanitch reviews the Royal Opera House’s La Traviata on YouTube Giuseppe Verdi, looking for a new subject and wanting something, which was “novel, beautiful, grand, varied, daring,” chose Alexan ...
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