Watch La Monnaie’s ‘The Golden Cockerel’ Via Opera Platform Stream

Opera Platform will be showcasing a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov’s “The Golden Cockerel” from “Le Monnaie” on Friday, Decembr 23. The performance will be available on Demand starting at 2 PM EST with subtitles in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Polish. The performance will be available to viewers until June 22, 2017. “The Golden Cockerel” is a political satire that {…}

Manon Lescaut CD Review: Anna Netrebko & Yusif Eyvazov Deliver Puccini’s ‘Desperate Passion’ in Intelligent Performance

When Puccini set out to write his “Manon Lescaut,” the composer drew attention to his “feeling it like an Italian, with a desperate passion.” Though the comment came in the context of his comparing it with Massenet’s own interpretation of the work, that idea of desperation has certainly played into numerous readings of the work. A look at the catalogue {…}

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Watch La Monnaie’s ‘The Golden Cockerel’ Via Opera Platform Stream

Manon Lescaut CD Review: Anna Netrebko & Yusif Eyvazov Deliver Puccini’s ‘Desperate Passion’ in Intelligent Performance