Hints and tips:
...The exhibition guide includes salient facts on Frederick Roberts’ role in creating Boer concentration camps, or Clive’s in the Great Bengal Famine....
...Martha Jones and Frederick Long are a more relaxed couple with good voices as Dorabella and Guglielmo, while Stephan Loges, looking like a soft-shoed, expat Lawrence Durrell, spouts Don Alfonso’s sexist...
...Porgy’s buzzard aria is cut, as it often is. ★★★☆☆ To October 1, then January 8 to February 1, metopera.org...
...Porpora’s speciality is fast, virtuoso arias, so the characters mostly spend their time upbraiding their lily-livered comrades or racing off to war....
...Benedict Nelson makes a formidable Giovanni, both in terms of charisma and vocal heft, while Frederick Long contributes a wryly funny, mercurial Leporello....
...On a hot June night in the absurdly beautiful grounds of Frederick the Great’s Sanssouci palace, the question seems valid enough....
...In the title role, Florin Cezar Ouatu’s smoky, passionate tone sounded underpowered until his show-stopping prison aria in the last act, when everything made sense....
...And Gilbert’s five, swooningly beautiful, gold boxes that once belonged to Frederick the Great of Prussia are reason enough to visit the new galleries....
...Lampe trots from recitative to da capo aria, through sprightly joy (“My sweetest, my featest,/Compleatest, and Neatest”) and lament (“My poor Eyes are red as Ferrets,/And I hain’t a Grain of Spirits”) to...
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