Two years ago in the marvelous city of Budapest, Hungary, I caught this production of Giuseppe Verdi’s Il Trovatore set in the 20th century with the melodrama amped up to eleven. Enjoy the review and let me know your opinions as well.
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I take myself back two years ago where I caught the concert version of Vincenzo Bellini’s I Capuleti e I Montecchi, known in English as The Capulets and The Montagues, at the Deutsche Oper Berlin starring Joyce DiDonato, Venera Gimadieva, and Celso Albelo. Enjoy the review and let me know your opinions as well.
I take myself back four years ago in Amsterdam, Netherlands, where I caught Christof Loy’s production of Richard Strauss’s Arabella starring Jacquelyn Wagner in the title role and Agneta Eichenholz as Zdenka. Enjoy the review and let me know your opinions as well.
A Rienzi production which makes you feel like you’re watching a film from the olden days. Enjoy the review and let me know your opinions as well. This review may have been released two years ago, but I still feel happy that I was able to talk about this Wagner rarity.
At last, a biographical drama film that is so well-written and so intense that I feel like my brain cells are coming back at such a fast rate yet has made me kind of depressed but still have the courage to live life to the fullest. Enjoy the review and let me know your opinions as well. And yes, I still consider Dallas Buyers Club to be not only a brilliant movie but also a great antidote to the now boring Tarzan 2013 or Tarzan 3D.
Oh boy! This is the first movie that has made me have the case of nerd rage and has made me scream a bit. Moreover, when looking back at this review, I realized just how boring and forgettable this excuse of an animated film became over the years.
Four years ago I caught one of my most favorite French grand operas of all time being performed in one of my most favorite opera houses in the world starring Roberto Alagna, Ildiko Komlosi, and Beatrice Uria Monzon. Can you really ask for anything more? Enjoy the 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.
Three years ago in Prague, I was extremely excited to review the very opera, which put Giuseppe Verdi on the map as one of the greatest Italian composers of all time! With a diverse and formidable cast of singers who poured their beings into their selected roles, this was absolute bliss. Enjoy the review and let me know your opinions as well.
A huge kudos to all of the performers and Maestro Jindra, especially Dana Buresova, Eva Urbanova, Richard Samek, Jaroslav Berzina and Yvona Skvarova, for a very enjoyable Jenufa that I caught three years ago during my Easter vacation in Prague. Enjoy the review and let me know your opinions as well.