In 2006 the Salzburg Festival staged all 22 Mozart operas and Decca released them all on DVD. Die Zauberflöte appeared in a Pierre Audi production originally staged in Amsterdam.
Die Zauberflöte in Salzburg
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La Fanciulla del West
Fanciulla is Puccini’s American opera. It’s set during the California gold rush and it was the first opera ever to premiere in New York, one hundred years and a couple of days ago. The soprano role, Minnie, is notoriously difficult to sing and so it isn’t produced all that often.
Archive
If you have tracked back this far you have gone as far back as I intend to go in back dating this blog. All the non-ephemeral posts for 2011 have been transferred from my Livejournal. Feel free to explore that for cats, rugby and life in general. You can also get the complete opera related posts which will net you reviews prior to 2011 as well as a fair amount of opera related ephemera.
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