Opera Warhorses

An appreciation and analysis of the ‘Standard Repertory’ of opera

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Entries from November 2009

Lyric Opera Revives Inventive Corsaro-Perdziola “Faust”: Chicago November 3, 2009

November 6th, 2009

Observances of the sesquicentennial of Gounod’s “Faust” begin this year – the 150th anniversary of the first version of what proved to be a revolutionary opera. To this day more popular than any French opera that preceded it, its influence on both later French and Italian opera was profound. The only French opera that exceeds [...]

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