Opera review: 'The Abduction From the Seraglio' Sep 26, 2009
Soprano Mary Dunleavy's Constanze was slightly disappointing after her superb earlier appearances with the company in Mozart and Verdi. Her vocal coloration was rich and evocative but her execution of the role's bravura passages was often sketchy. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Season's greetings Sep 24, 2009
"I'm trying to instill a expectation of excellence, but beyond that, a sense of line, logical and singing phrasing. I'm gratified to hear the audience marveling at the technical accomplishment of the orchestra, but I'd rather have them marvel at a revolutionary 'Eroica' or a sensuous Ravel 'Introduction and Allegro' [both Nov. 14] or feel the burn of the Verdi Requiem.". That last one is on March 6. (Erie Times-News, PA)
Legends Theatre Presents Exclusive Kansas City La Boheme Presentation - September 24 & 27 Sep 22, 2009
Fall/Winter '09 Schedule Sept 24, 7pm & Sept 27, 1pm: LA BOHEME (Puccini) -- A film by Robert Dornhelm Oct 15, 7pm & Oct 18, 1pm: I PURITANI (Bellini) -- Teatro Comunale, Italy Oct 29, 7pm & Nov 1, 1pm: SWAN LAKE (Tchaikovsky) -- Mariinsky Ballet, St Petersburg, Russia Nov 12, 7pm & Nov 15, 1pm: EUGENE ONEGIN (Tchaikovsky) -- Bolshoi Opera, L'Opera de Paris, France Nov 19, 7pm & Nov 22 & 29, 1pm: THE NUTCRACKER (Tchaikovsky) -- Mariinsky Ballet, St Petersburg, Russia Dec 7, Time TBA: LIVE -... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
In Pynchon’s tales, music is the backbeat Sep 20, 2009
In a nod to Verdi, a very bad seafood restaurant serves Eel Trovatore. Even less to Doc s taste is the drawling brass and subhip syncopation of Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. (Boston Globe)
Music review: Opera in the Park a splish-splash Sep 16, 2009
Nicola Luisotti, beginning his first season as the company's music director, led an all-Italian program of solos and ensembles by Rossini, Verdi, Puccini, Donizetti and Mozart, with stellar contributions from cast members of the company's first two productions and several Adler Fellows. The star of the afternoon - just like at Friday night's season-opening performance of Verdi's "Il Trovatore" - was soprano Sondra Radvanovsky, who reprised Leonora's Act 1 aria "Tacea la notte placida" with a... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Philharmonia's thrilling, vivid Verdi Sep 16, 2009
THAT Verdi, in quasi-retirement after a lifetime of operatic success and the recent triumph of Aida, could return to his writing table in his 60s and produce such a masterpiece in a relatively new genre, as his Requiem shows, suggests there may be hope for us all ... The work is dramatic, but Verdi didn't want it sung with operatic accent and declamation and the four soloists respected this ... Despite her operatic experience, Fiona Janes also respected Verdi's non-operatic stricture singing... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Opera review: 'Il Trovatore' Sep 15, 2009
It came during the last act of Friday's potent season-opening performance of Verdi's "Il Trovatore" at the War Memorial Opera House, and even in the context of a generally strong evening, Radvanovsky's account of the aria "D'amor sull'ali rosee" stood out as a beacon of probing musicality ... In a splendid near-debut (her first staged appearance after singing the Verdi Requiem here in June), mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe brought her magisterial sound and theatrical resilience to the role of... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Even a Radiohead fan can appreciate Mozart Sep 13, 2009
The leap from Deerhoof to Stravinsky is miniscule when classical music is presented the right way; one indie-rock-expert friend of mine became a bona fide opera nut after I insisted he experience Verdi s Otello - and I didn t present it as an exotic excursion into high culture. I presented it as one of the richest manifestations of love and torment we have as humans. (Boston Globe)
Diva with good things to say - about others Sep 5, 2009
Talk to this brilliant American mezzo-soprano, who appears at the San Francisco Opera next Friday as Azucena in the season-opening production of Verdi's "Il Trovatore," and you get a steady stream of accolades, all directed at other people ... And what about the young soprano Heidi Melton, who made a last-minute substitution for an ailing Patricia Racette in June's Verdi "Requiem," which also marked Blythe's company debut. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Sydney choirs spread their wings Aug 31, 2009
Music inspired by the writings of William Shakespeare, including works from Mendelssohn, Walton and Verdi, will be accompanied by scenes from classic Shakespeare films. I've come up with a wish list for the film clips, so let's see what we can come up with,'' Weymark says. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Taking Liberties Aug 24, 2009
Each summer at the Caramoor Festival, in Katonah, New York, he presents two or three works from the golden age of bel canto Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, and Verdi, with Handel, Gluck, and Mozart also in the mix and through an extended rehearsal process he pushes singers to cast off the rigid habits that they have been trained to adopt. L Elisir d Amore was the first of Crutchfield s productions this summer. (New Yorker)
Two Alaska sopranos to perform coming-out recital Aug 23, 2009
Gilda in "Rigoletto" and Violetta in "La Traviata," both by Guiseppe Verdi, Susanna in "The Marriage of Figaro" (Mozart) and Olympia in "Tales of Hoffman" (Offenbach). She says, "My favorite soprano of the moment, Anna Netrebko ... is the epitome of a singing-actress.". (Anchorage Daily News)
* Composers tweak Twitter opera for Covent Garden Aug 13, 2009
In an effort to get more people involved with opera, Londons world-famous Royal Opera House in Covent Garden is turning away X temporarily X from classic talents like Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini and giving the composers pen to. just about anybody. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
View: Twittering a happier libretto Aug 13, 2009
The Royal Opera House will perform an opera written not by Giacomo Puccini or Giuseppe Verdi, but by living people with a network connection and a Twitter account. Fans can contribute to the libretto line-by-line, subject, of course, to Twitter's maximum of 140 characters at a time, which will then be put to music by professionals. (India Times, India)
Royal Opera House to do show of tweets Aug 12, 2009
In an effort to get more people involved with opera, which sometimes suffers from an elitist, highbrow reputation, London's world-famous Royal Opera House is turning away temporarily from classic talents like Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini and giving the composer's pen to. just about anybody. (MSNBC -- Technology)
B'WAY COMPOSER TAKES OPERA TURN Aug 6, 2009
Mozart, Puccini, Verdi all had tunes. " OK. Never having hummed Turandot's "Nessun Dorma," I wouldn't know. "And defined voice ranges -- tenor, mezzo, bass. (New York Post -- Gossip)
ELOQUENT MARTYRS Aug 4, 2009
But when the composer is at the top of his game, in the Act 4 love duet, "Huguenots" can hold its own with the best of Wagner or Verdi. The opera unfolds against the backdrop of the 1572 massacre of French Protestant Huguenots by Roman Catholics. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Opera served a la carte at the Chatham House Aug 1, 2009
Diners will savor the songs of Puccini, Verdi, Mozart and Gershwin sung by the five-member group Opera a la Carte, while enjoying an award-winning meal at one of the top 10 restaurants in the Hudson Valley ... Dahlin got his idea for Opera a la Carte from a restaurant in Seattle where the owners and singers provided guests with the soaring sounds of Puccini, Verdi, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Delibes and Gershwin. (Hudson Register Star, NY)
Big Sky arias: In Missoula style, opera debut isn't a formal affair Aug 1, 2009
The opera, written by Giuseppe Verdi, premiered in 1851 ... Before Thursday's performance of Verdi's Rigoletto, Mark Boyer had never experienced an opera from beginning to end ... MLO's production of Verdi's Rigoletto concludes with a performance Saturday night at the University Theatre on the UM campus. (Missoulian, MT)
Updating a classic tragedy Jul 31, 2009
" Dalio is playing Radames for the first time in a long career that has included the leads in "Beauty and the Beast," "Les Miserables" and, his special favorite, "Miss Saigon," the Vietnam War-era musical, where he met his wife when they played other doomed lovers. "Elton John's score makes occasional attempts to sound a little exotic, but it's really mainstream, mostly pop, eclectic and easily accessible," says Dalio. He finds Radames less interesting in his hero soldier mode than when he... (NJ.com -- Times)
• Events calendar Jul 24, 2009
Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Voigt sings works of Wagner and Verdi. Free admission. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Verdi Opera La Battaglia di Legnano Jul 18, 2009
La Battaglia di Legnano, an Italian lyric tragedy by Giuseppe Verdi: opera plot summary, character list, and other Verdi opera information. Giuseppe Verdi (October 9, 1813 January 27, 1901) composed La Battaglia di Legnano (The Battle of Legnano), a lyric tragedy in four acts. (Suite101.com)
LETTER: Cap-trade bill will affect costs for every citizen Jul 15, 2009
The Question wrote on Jul 14, 2009 12:46 PM:" This one, please:Did you see that Sarah Palin "wrote" an Obama-bashing column for the Washington Post? LOL. That dishonest dress dummy could no more write a newspaper column than a sled dog could sing an aria by Verdi. " ... " father bob wrote on Jul 14, 2009 3:08 PM:" The Question wrote on Jul 14, 2009 12:46 PM:" This one, please:Did you see that Sarah Palin "wrote" an Obama-bashing column for the Washington Post?LOL. That dishonest dress dummy... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Pipeline deal is sweet music for Iran Jul 15, 2009
How a trans-Caspian gas pipeline project came to be named after the 19th-century Italian Romantic composer Giuseppe Verdi's famous opera Nabucco remains obscure ... Moscow often poured scorn on the Nabucco project's dim prospects by drawing apt allusions from Verdi's opera ... Verdi's opera - "beautiful, yet altogether gloomy and hopeless". (Asia Times Online)
Gas pipe deal aims to end Russia's monopoly Jul 14, 2009
Big hurdles remain for the pipeline project named after an opera by Verdi. Consortium members must raise billions of dollars for the Nabucco project. (CNN -- World)
Will Nabucco pipeline deal free Europe from Russian gas? Jul 14, 2009
The pipeline is named after a Verdi opera whose subject is liberation from bondage. Along with EU representatives, officials from Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, and Austria all states the pipeline will transit were in Ankara for Monday's signing. (Christian Science Monitor -- World)
Europe's pipeline politics Jul 13, 2009
Named after an opera by Verdi, this pipeline would bring gas from Central Asia and the Middle East to Europe, bypassing Russia completely. It is planned to take a 3000km (1,865 mile) overland route through Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Austria and will deliver 30bn cubic metres of gas a year to Europe. (BBC News -- Business)
Dramatic opening Jul 9, 2009
Listening to one of the early orchestral rehearsals it is clear Prima Donna aspires to the melodic energy and the elegance of a Verdi or a Puccini. Though there has always been a theatricality to Wainwright's work, the lushness of the sound may surprise fans of his rockier stuff. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Walking in water but still singing pretty Jul 7, 2009
At the sacred shores of the Nile Tamara Wilson as Aida in Graeme Murphy's new production of the Verdi opera, which opens tonight at the Opera House ... Now she takes on Verdi's Ethiopian princess, writes Bryce Hallett ... A recent production of Verdi's blood-and-thunder Simon Boccanegra, directed by Ian Judge in Toronto, proved exhilarating and unexpectedly dramatic. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
* [CLASSICAL DVD REVIEW] Jul 1, 2009
Human beings the world over need and respond to this, and Puccini knew it, as did Verdi, Wagner and even Shostakovich. Does Birtwistle think that human nature has really changed. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Unifieds Summer Musical Theatre presentation to be Aida July 31-Aug. 1 Jun 30, 2009
Aida is based on Giuseppe Verdi s opera of the same name ... The musical originated from a children s storybook version of Verdi s opera. (Racine Journal Times, WI)
Schedule for Nine Opera Performances Jun 28, 2009
Oct. 24, 2009: "Aida," by Giuseppe Verdi ... Nov. 7, 2009: "Turandot," by Giuseppe Verdi ... February 6, 2010: "Simon Boccanegra," by Giuseppe Verdi. (The Pilot Newspaper)
Betty Allen, opera singer, recitalist, and teacher; at 82 Jun 28, 2009
Elsewhere, her roles included Teresa in La Sonnambula, by Bellini, Jocasta in Stravinsky s Oedipus Rex, Monisha in Scott Joplin s Treemonisha, and Mistress Quickly in Verdi s Falstaff. Elizabeth Louise Allen, known as Betty Lou, was born on March 17, 1927, in Campbell, Ohio, near Youngstown. (Boston Globe)
Opera, Ballam misrepresented Jun 27, 2009
As Mr. Ballam has said, You can t pull any guy off the street and have him sing Rossini and Verdi ... As Mr. Ballam has said, You cant pull any guy off the street and have him sing Rossini and Verdi. (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
Music to Calm the Heart? Jun 25, 2009
The phrases, from two pieces by Verdi, were about 10 seconds long, Bernardi's team notes, which is similar to the standard oscillations in blood pressure. In contrast, a more "intellectual" solo singing piece by Bach had relatively little effect on cardiovascular rhythms. (Newsmax)
Heart Beat: Music May Help Keep Your Cardiovascular System in Tune Jun 25, 2009
The team also found that "rich" music phrases around 10 seconds long, like those rhythms from famous arias by Verdi, caused heart rate and other parts of the cardiovascular system to synchronize with the music. Both groups experienced this entrainment, although the musicians showed a stronger response. (Scientific American)
Music Can Make the Heart Beat Faster Jun 24, 2009
The Pavia researchers played classical music, including selections from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, a Bach cantata, and arias from operas by Puccini and Verdi. They also measured the effects on the cardiovascular systems of two dozen volunteers in their mid-20s, half of whom were trained singers, who listened through headphones. (MEDLINEplus)
Leo Nucci to embrace 430th performance as Rigoletto in Beijing Jun 17, 2009
BEIJING, June 17 -- Italian baritone Leo Nucci, hailed as the greatest living interpreter of Verdi's operas, in particular "Rigoletto", will embrace his 430th performance as Rigoletto in Beijing this week ... "Rigoletto" is an opera by Giuseppe Verdi, one of the most influential composers of Italian opera in the 19th century. (Xinhuanet, China)
Anna Netrebko returns to S.F. in 'La Traviata' Jun 16, 2009
From its second act onward, the San Francisco Opera's new production of "La Traviata" attempts something radically new with Verdi's familiar melodrama ... Unfortunately, those young lovers - Violetta Valry, the "fallen woman" of the title, and her devoted Alfredo - are actually the focus of the opera that Verdi composed. (San Francisco Chronicle)
S.F. Opera's Runnicles enters the homestretch May 28, 2009
He's conducted more than 60 operas during his tenure, from standard repertoire works by Wagner, Strauss, Mozart and Verdi to new (or newish) pieces like John Adams' "Doctor Atomic" and Olivier Messiaen's "Saint Franois d'Assise." He's shaped the Opera Orchestra and (together with Chorus Director Ian Robertson) the Opera Chorus into first-rate performing ensembles ... But first, there is more music to conduct - beginning with Friday's performance of the Verdi Requiem, a piece scheduled at his... (San Francisco Chronicle)
* SUNDAY PROFILE: Not quite the final curtain May 10, 2009
I didnt believe in specialized singers X This is a Verdi tenor, this is a Puccini soprano; I believe in singing well or singing bad, and if you sing well La Boheme and Tosca and Carmen, for sure you have to try the Neapolitan songs, because its another way to express yourself. . (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
JOHN PAUL JONES: Learning at the fountain of my youth May 9, 2009
Names like Tchaikovsky, Bach, Wagner, Bizet, Verdi and many others wouldn't become known to me until I grew up, but the strains of their genius lived in my imagination, thanks to cartoons. If the cartoons were fun and frivolous, Saturday afternoon westerns were deadly serious object lessons. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
S.F. Opera cutting $1M in costs May 7, 2009
The next season opens on Friday, September 11 with Verdi s Il Travatore. Email Sarah Duxbury at / (415) 288-4963. (San Francisco Business Times, CA)
Sampler for May 7 May 7, 2009
The presentation will feature the music of Mozart, Handel, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Bernstein, Lerner & Loewe, Gilbert & Sullivan, Cole Porter, Rogers & Hart and more. Hazel Miele of Marlborough, president of the Middlesex County Chapter Massachusetts Society of Genealogists , has announced a meeting of the group on Saturday, May 9, at 1:30 p.m., at the Waltham Public Library, 735 Main St., Waltham. (Marlborough Enterprise, MA)
* [CLASSICAL CD REVIEWS] May 6, 2009
I tend to prefer the confident mastery of Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart, Bellini or Verdi to the contortions of early 20th century anguish. But in a sense these young Venezuelans converted me, and I have listened to this remarkable CD over and over again. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Stanford Lively Arts unveils new season Apr 28, 2009
The season opens with jazz pianist and composer Uri Caine giving a West Coast premiere to his work "The Othello Syndrome," which has roots in Shakespeare and the Verdi opera. On Jan. 16, the Kronos Quartet will give the first West Coast performance of "Yin Yu Tang: A Chinese Home." The staged work with video also features Wu Man playing the pipa (a plucked Chinese instrument) and is inspired by a Chinese home that was rebuilt in Massachusetts -- and the eight generations of the family it housed. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Hao Jiang Tian gives the devil his due in the Fresno Grand Opera production of 'Faust.' Apr 19, 2009
He's best known for singing Verdi roles, and this is only the fourth time for Tian to play Mephistopholes in Charles Gounod's classic "Faust," the tale of the doctor who sells his soul to the Devil in order to win the love of the beautiful Marguerite. The first time was 12 years ago in Singapore. (Fresno Bee)
Central Illinois played part in helping S.F. quake survivors Apr 19, 2009
The program included selections from popular Wagner, Rossini and Verdi operas. On April 30, The Pantagraph reported that former Bloomingtonian Will Tucker, the brother of current resident James T. Tucker, was pulled unconscious from a quake-damaged building and taken to a hospital in Los Angeles. (The Pantagraph newspaper)
Gossip Columnist Hedda Hopper Dishes Hollywood Dirt in "A Scandalous Affair" New York City Premiere, Merkin Hall, Sunday, April 19, 8:00 PM Apr 17, 2009
Laced with humor and shocking revelations, the love story unfolds as narrated by character Hedda Hopper with a spectacular mix of music by Cole Porter, Noel Coward, Rodgers and Hart, Romberg, Herbert, Verdi and Giordano. The show includes references to Clark Gable, L.B. Mayer and others that interacted in the MacDonald-Eddy story. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Second chance for Kamouraska needs more and less Mar 30, 2009
It cries out for a Verdi. Later, a Strauss might have served, or, closer to our own day, a Berg, a Shostakovich, a Britten. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Ezio Flagello, at 78; sang 528 performances at Met Mar 25, 2009
His wide-ranging career there included basso cantante roles such as Rodolfo in "La Sonnambula," Wagnerian characters like Pogner in "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg," comic roles in Mozart and Rossini operas, and major Verdi roles like King Philip in "Don Carlo.". He made his professional debut in 1955 at the Empire State Festival in Ellenville, N.Y., singing Dulcamara in "L'Elisir d'Amore." His career took off after he won first place in the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air in 1957. (Boston Globe)
Florence a thrill for tourists year round Mar 21, 2009
A Verdi player finds a gap in the Azzurri team's defence during the 2003 Calcio Storico. Vintage clothes For a long time, image-conscious Italians wouldn't be seen dead in second-hand clothes. (CNN -- International)
Florida Southern Choral Ensembles to Perform Mar 18, 2009
The concert also will feature four famous opera choruses: O Belle Nuit from Offenbach s Tales of Hoffman, Habanera from Bizet s Carmen, Call of the Flowers from Delibes s Lakm;, and Libiamo ne lieti calici from Verdi s La Traviata. Tickets are $15. (The Fort Meade Leader, FL)
Plácido Domingo: Singing every day as if it were the last Mar 17, 2009
Audio: 'Niun Mi Tema' from Verdi's 'Otello,' from 1978 ... But when the tenor Salvatore Licitra withdrew from the Met's new production of Verdi's "Trovatore," which opened last month, Mr. Alvarez was reassigned to the Verdi role ... Vocal purists might argue that by endowment Mr. Domingo was an ideal Verdi and Puccini tenor. (International Herald Tribune)
Stars turn out for NY opera gala Mar 17, 2009
He gave the audience a taste of what was to come in a duet with soprano Angela Gheorghiu from the Verdi work ... Soprano Deborah Voigt and tenor Ben Heppner previewed the new Ring cycle by singing the closing duet from Wagner's Siegfried, while Maria Guleghina and Stephanie Blythe performed together from Verdi's Aida. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Review: MSO, Chorale perform Verdi's Requiem Mar 16, 2009
There comes a moment toward the end of the longest section of Giuseppe Verdi s Requiem when torrential thunderclouds of music suddenly dissipate to reveal a glisteningly tender, soft melody for strings ... That moment summed up nearly all that was right about the Missoula Symphony Orchestra and Chorale s performance of Verdi s Requiem at the University Theatre on Sunday ... Darkness and light, drama and meditation, fear and faith: All find expression in Verdi s sprawling work for chorus,... (Missoulian, MT)
4 concerts feature as many genres Mar 13, 2009
From pops to Broadway to Verdi, it will be music, music, music this weekend ... The Space Coast Oratorio Society performs Verdi's "Requiem" on Sunday at Riverside Presbyterian Church in Cocoa Beach. (Florida Today)
Czech Fairy Tale Has Just The Right Tenor Mar 11, 2009
Stunning in a Czech work like "Rusalka," this Latvian artist should also sound thrilling in more familiar operas by Puccini, Verdi and Wagner. "Rusalka" is a variation on the "Little Mermaid" legend. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Music review: Ligeti's comic-book Requiem Mar 8, 2009
The Day of Judgment, as depicted in music by composers such as Mozart and Verdi, is traditionally a fearsome thing, full of thunderous crashing and the gnashing of teeth ... Ligeti's Day of Judgment is no less terrifying than Verdi's - death, after all, comes to the religious and secular alike - but his puckish humor dares to drain the Christian view of a certain pompous grandiosity. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Concert features guest conductor, rising stars Mar 1, 2009
La Crosse Symphony Orchestra with the performance of Verdi s Requiem. Tell us what you think. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Simultaneous concerts pose tough choice for music lovers Feb 27, 2009
Johnson, a Westminster Choir College graduate, will sing two Verdi arias, "Pace, pace, mio dio" from La Forza del Destino and "O Patria Mia" from Aida, as well as Dvorak's "Song to the Moon" and Wagner's "Dich Teure Halle.". Andronikova plans to sing "None but the lonely heart" by Tchaikovsky and "Katerina," a Russian folk song arranged by Prokofiev in 1944 as a part of a cycle of 12 Russian folk songs for voice and piano. (NJ.com -- Times)
Review: Tricky performance was easy to love Feb 23, 2009
The Missoula Symphony returns to the University Theatre stage on March 14 and 15 along with the MSO Chorale for concert performances of Giuseppi Verdi s Requiem. Share your thoughts on the performance at. (Missoulian, MT)
It's Verdi Theatrical Feb 19, 2009
IT'S VERDI THEATRICAL - New York Post ... IT'S VERDI THEATRICAL ... AT the Metropolitan Opera Monday night, Verdi's "Il Trova tore" didn't feel like a war horse but a fever dream. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
From a vault in Paris: The sound of opera in 1907 Feb 17, 2009
Treasures from the Vaults of the Paris Opera: 'Nium mi tema,' from 'Otello' (The Italian tenor Francesco Tamagno, who created the title-role of Verdi's ... Gualtier Mald, from Act I of Verdi's "Rigoletto" (The Australian soprano Nellie Melba in a recording made in New York in 1907 ... Audio: 'Celeste Aida,' from Act I of Verdi's 'Aida' (The Italian tenor Enrico Caruso sings Radams's opening aria in a 1908 recording. (International Herald Tribune)
Music: Verdi with popcorn, and trepidation Feb 17, 2009
Verdi with popcorn, and trepidation - International Herald Tribune ... Verdi with popcorn, and trepidation ... The Teatro Alla Scala in Milan broadcast its gala opening night, a performance of Verdi's "Don Carlo," live on Dec. 7. (International Herald Tribune)
