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Jose Luis Basso

Jul 14, 2026

Teatro Real de Madrid 2025-26 Review: Il Trovatore

(Credit: © Javier del Real | Teatro Real) There are operas that cannot be separated from the city where they were born. For Madrid, “Il Trovatore” is exactly that kind of story. It did not begin with Verdi but with a young playwright, Antonio Garcia Gutierrez, who in 1836 presented his play “El Trovador” at Madrid’s Teatro del Principe, inspired {…}

May 2, 2026

Teatro Real de Madrid 2025-26 Review: The Bartered Bride

(Credit: Javier de Real) Some operas carry the weight of national myth—and that weight can obstruct a purely musical experience. Smetana’s “The Bartered Bride” is very much one of them. When it was first performed in Prague in 1866, the Czech nation had no state of its own, and this first opera in the Czech language became something far greater {…}

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