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Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali 2025-26 Review: Mozart’s Mass in C Minor

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(Photo: Lorenza Daverio) The Grosse Messe, or as it is known, the Great Mass in C minor, K. 427 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart occupies a singular place within the sacred repertoire. Monumental, deeply expressive, and paradoxically unfinished–much like his Requiem–the work emerged during one of the most intense periods in the composer’s life. The personal and professional context was complex and {…}

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Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali 2025-26 Review: Marina

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(Photo: Lorenza Daverio) How is it possible that, until five years ago, nothing was known about Italian composer Umberto Giordano’s first work? This is the question that inevitably arises upon learning about the program that prompted this article. The answer seems simple if one considers that it was Giordano himself who chose to withdraw it from public life, as it {…}

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Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali Announces 2024-25 Season

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The Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali has announced its 2024-25 season celebrating its 80th anniversary. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Diego Fasolis conducts Puccini’s “Le Villi” with Francesca Sassu, Tigran Melkonyan, and Marco Bussi. The program also features César Franck’s Prière. Performance Date: Oct. 5, 2024 Yi-Chen Lin conducts a program of music by Pietro Mascagni, Arnold Schönberg, and {…}

DVD and CD Reviews, Reviews

CD Review: Decca’s ‘Marina’

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Decried, derided, dismissed—such was the fate of verismo opera, viewed through the lens of musicological conservatism, that is. Accused of sordid gutter realism, it tended to be overlooked as the declining, or terminal, chapter in the evolution of Italian melodrama: “Last Acts” (2000) and “The Autumn of Italian Opera” (2007) are but two book titles illustrating this bias—in spite of {…}

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Freddie de Tommaso, Eleonora Buratto, Maggie Finnegan & Gundula Janowitz Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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Welcome back as we explore the latest CD and DVD releases from around the opera world. This week, audiences will get to hear a world premiere recording from one of Verismo’s biggest composers. There are also a number of remasters. Aribert Reimann: Ein Traumspiel, Denn Bleiben ist nirgends Albert Reimann’s “Ein Traumspiel” and “Denn Bleiben ist nirgends” are released with {…}

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OperaLombardia Teatro Sociale di Como 2025-26 Review: Don Quichotte

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(Photo: Giorgio Serinelli) Composed in 1909 and premiered at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo in February 1910, “Don Quichotte” stands as the last great success of Jules Massenet and one of the most singular titles in his vast output. The work was born at a moment of full artistic maturity for the composer, who was fully aware of the proximity of {…}

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OperaLombardia 2025 Cremona Review: I Puritani

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(Photo: Andrea Butti / OperaLombardia) Although “I Puritani” is an Italian opera through and through, it was conceived in Paris, at the height of the grand opéra tradition. Bellini studied Meyerbeer and Halévy in great detail, noting in his personal papers certain orchestral “effects” he wished to emulate and others he intended to avoid. As a result, the score, especially {…}

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Sonya Yoncheva & Freddie de Tommaso to Revive Giordano’s ‘Marina’

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Sonya Yoncheva and Freddie de Tommaso are set to revive Giordano’s “Marina.” The performances will be held on Feb. 12 and 14, 2026 at the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan and will feature the world premiere of the lost opera in a critical edition by ura di Andreas Gies, Editio Princeps, Libreria Musicale Italiana, Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Umberto {…}