Rossini

Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 2007 singing the role of Stéphano in Charles Gounod’s“Roméo et Juliette.” Since then,…

There are essentially two approaches to the supreme expression of opera, both of them dealing with what would seem to be the impossible.The first is…

It was habit in the nineteenth and early twentieth century to present operas, whatever their original language, in the language of the host country.…