The holiday season is fast approaching. Nina Minasyan’s luscious creaminess and lovely elegance as Olympia, the mechanical Christmas doll, are wonderful gifts to give any opera fan. Please enjoy my review and share your thoughts. https://youtu.be/hNXGjxEc1uM
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Start spreading the news, for Lydia Steier’s production of Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann takes on a New York setting at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. Please enjoy my review and let me know your opinions. https://youtu.be/6ALZERMmFag
While Jonas Kaufmann’s 2022 best-of album can benefit from more variety in recorded repertoire, it is still a nice listen, especially for die-hard Jonas Kaufmann fans. Please enjoy my review and let me know your opinions as well.
Sonya Yoncheva, Piotr Beczala, and Placido Domingo make their role debuts in one of Verdi’s rarely performed operas as the tragic characters of Luisa Miller, Rodolfo Walter, and Old Man Miller. Enjoy the review and let me know your opinions as well.
Let us see how Herr Jonas Kaufmann’s style, manner, musicality, and class holds up in his latest album, a compilation of French Grand Opéra arias by Charles Gounod, Jacques Fromental Halévy, Hector Berlioz, Jacques Offenbach, Georges Bizet, Edouard Lalo, and Georges Bizet. Enjoy the review and let me know your opinions as well.