Written between two of Rodgers and Hammerstein's biggest hits, Carousel and South Pacific, Allegro is one of their least-often performed collaborations; its original 1947 Broadway production was a financial failure, and critical and public opinion was decidedly mixed. Part of the problem must have been its stark departure from the dramatic realism ...
In Goya, (as in La Loca, written several years before it) Menotti set before himself the difficult task of creating one of the most notoriously treacherous types of opera: the biographical opera that spans many years of the protagonist's life. The compression of an entire life into a few episodes is rarely effective; the bio-operas that succeed, ...
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