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Pietro Auletta’s “L’Orazio” (1737), with substitute arias by other composers, gets a first-rate performance from the renowned Valle d’Itria Festival.
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An opera from Fascist Italy, Gino Marinuzzi’s Palla de’ Mozzi receives a splendid world-premiere recording. Should you listen despite its pedigree?
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Antônio Carlos Gomes’s Lo Schiavo (The Slave) receives its first major recording — and stakes its claim in the repertory.
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Metamorfosi is a marvelously effective and amusing one-act opera that would suit college opera workshops splendidly.
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An 1829 opera about Elizabeth I and her supposed lover — enlivened by underhanded threats, virtuous resistance, remorse, and an attempted poisoning — proves well worth reviving.
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A world-premiere recording of Siroe, King of Persia makes it clear that Leonardo Vinci (1690-1730) was as fine a craftsman as the painter with a similar name.
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Arts Remembrance: In Memoriam — Tom Stoppard