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Opera Album Review: A Marvelous New Recording of Rossini’s “The Silken Ladder”– at a Bargain Price

February 22, 2023
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Rossini’s one-act opera from 1812 rings fresh changes on a host of comic-opera clichés.

Classical CD Review: John Corigliano’s “The Ghosts of Versailles” (Pentatone)

May 17, 2016
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Ghosts seems to be trying to be all things to all listeners — edgy, nostalgic, farcical, adventuresome.

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