NEW YORKNEW YORK — Opera impresarios looking for authentic settings have sometimes gone to the ends of the Earth, presenting Verdi’s “Aida” at the base of the Pyramids and Puccini’s “Turandot” in ...
On Sept 23 and 24, Il mondo della luna (The World of the Moon), an opera by Franz Joseph Haydn, had its Chinese premiere as part of the ongoing Beijing Music Festival. [Photo provided to China Daily] ...
Most of Haydn's two dozen or so operas are deemed untheatrical and rarely performed, while about half of Puccini's dozen are among the greatest hits of all time. These composers would seem to make ...