A quick and free way to find out about opera and the operas you like is to go on line and watch the nightly streaming of opera by The Metropolitan Opera House, New York. Last week there was an opportu ...
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Jules Massenet’s lush romantic score has kept Manon in the French repertoire ever since it premiered in Paris in 1884. This production, starring Lisette Oropesa, Michael Fabiano, Carlo Bosi, Artur Ruc ...
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Camille Saint-Saens had intended to use the Biblical story for an oratorio but his librettist, Ferdinand Lemaire, persuaded him to turn it into an opera and it premiered after a long delay (due to the ...
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Giuseppe Verdi knew his opera of love, war, revenge and death was old-fashioned but he also knew that old-fashioned 19th century audiences loved arias, romantic melodramas and songs lavished with melo ...
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