EMI has reissued Virgin's 1992 recording of Dialogues des Carmélites with Kent Nagano leading l'Opéra de Lyon and an outstanding group of soloists in a performance that emphasizes the opera's dramatic qualities. It's inevitable to compare any new recording with the first, made in 1958, with Pierre Dervaux leading a comparably outstanding group of ...
Although produced in quick succession in Chicago, New York, Cologne, Berlin, Leningrad, and Moscow in the '20s, Prokofiev's opera L'Amour des Trois Oranges as quickly dropped out of the repertoire and has only rarely been heard since. Various reasons for this eclipse have been suggested: that the opera was too light, too ironic, too scattered and ...
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