
Festival della Valle D’Itria 2017 Review – Un Giorno di Regno: Great Musicians Elevate Verdi’s Undercooked Early Comedy
In 1840 Verdi’s second opera, and his first attempt at comedy, “Un Giorno di Regno,” was premiered at La Scala in Milan to widespread criticism, criticism that the composer took to heart to the point that it took more than 50 years before he would write another comedy. Of course, we know how that second comedic experiment turned out as {…}