Tag: Giuseppe Verdi
New In Music This Week: June 21st
Thirteen is your lucky number of new recordings to explore this weekend
Lise Davidsen Has the Keys to the Metropolitan Opera
"It's a responsibility I'm not sure I can carry. But on the other hand, it's a responsibility I would like to carry."
Rachel Willis-Sørensen: Desdemona Is Strong
"I just don't see her as weak because I think it's too easy to say that only weak people become the victims of abuse."
Latonia Moore Once Again Faces Down Verdi’s “Aida”
"I feel like my place in a business like this is to show you that what you look like as a person will never matter more than what it is you can create as an artist."
Baritone Etienne Dupuis Strives for Perfection…
"I think one of the hardest things to do is to strive for perfection and then have the humility to recognize that you did your best."
Mezzo-Soprano Elīna Garanča Believes in the Magic of Opera…
"We are there to communicate with emotions. We are there to transport. We are there to support history, the imagination of somebody. And if it all gets just corrected by politics, it loses its purpose."
Conductor Harry Bicket On the Perfect Opera
"Even Verdi when he was writing his Shakespeare operas he didn't dare actually take on Shakespeare's text. Britten is one of the few people in history that actually set Shakespeare's text and all but one sentence is the original Shakespeare."
Week 71 at the Met: The Final Week
Metropolitan Opera Website
July 19th - July 25th
Final Streaming Week
July 19th - July 25th
Final Streaming Week
Top Ten Best Bets: June 18th – June 21st
Leading this week's list are two concerts by jazz sensation Jazzmeia Horn