In this warm and humorous interview, the musical director of the San Francisco opera Maestro Nicola Luisotti describes his journey to becoming one of the greatest conductors of Puccini and Verdi of his generation.

 

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Opera is an amazing art form – possibly the supreme art form, but what exactly is opera? First and foremost, it is the musical enactment of drama, so the people on stage need to be able to sing and act with equal measures…

Arabian opera nights
Architecture and opera came together at the end—and in the aftermath—of Frank Lloyd Wright’s career, but not in the manner that America’s most famous architect might have envisaged. Nor in the way, he…

Opera's hot in Chile
Santiago’s Teatro Municipal—one of the great opera houses of South America—celebrates its 150th anniversary this month. But the performance on 17 September 1857 of Verdi’s Ernani was by no means the first…


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Norma, Opera North, Grand Theatre, Leeds, review
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