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15 October 2018

BEST VOCAL RECITAL DISC OF 2018: Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, & Giuseppe Verdi — A TE, O CARA - Stephen Costello sings bel canto (Stephen Costello, tenor; Delos DE 3541)

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VINCENZO BELLINI (1801 – 1835), GAETANO DONIZETTI (1797 – 1848), and GIUSEPPE VERDI (1813 – 1901) : A te, o cara – Stephen Costello sings b...
14 October 2018

SINGER SPOTLIGHT: Mezzo-soprano ELIZABETH DESHONG, Adalgisa in North Carolina Opera’s concert performance of Bellini’s Norma, brings 21st-Century star power to old-fashioned bel canto

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Belle of bel canto : internationally-acclaimed mezzo-soprano Elizabeth DeShong , whose critically-lauded interpretation of Adalgisa anchors ...
13 October 2018

PERSONAL PERSPECTIVES: Adiós, La Superba — remembering MONTSERRAT CABALLÉ, 1933 – 2018

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  Prima donna del cuore : soprano Montserrat Caballé (1933 – 2018) in the title rôle of Francesco Cilèa’s Adriana Lecouvreur at The Metrop...
26 September 2018

September 2018 RECORDING OF THE MONTH: Georg Friedrich Händel & Philip Glass — ARC (Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor; Les Violons du Roy; Jonathan Cohen, conductor; Decca Gold 481 7190)

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GEORG FRIEDRICH HÄNDEL (1685 – 1759) and PHILIP GLASS (born 1937) : ARC — Anthony Roth Costanzo , countertenor; Les Violons du Roy ; Jonatha...
15 August 2018

ARTS IN ACTION: Baritone BRIAN MULLIGAN and Vocal Arts DC bring the world première of Gregory Spears’s Walden, alongside Dominick Argento’s From the Diary of Virginia Woolf, to Washington’s Kennedy Center on 16 September 2018

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September Songster : Baritone Brian Mulligan , who joins pianist Timothy Long in Vocal Arts DC’s world-première performance of Gregory Spea...