Appropriate for this evening, since it’s about reconciliation of political enemies mediated by a woman’s love for a guy in the other side. Granted, she’s a very young woman whose sanity goes and returns depending on whether bubelah has been condemned to death or reprieved....
https://twitter.com/metopera/status/1307078890804973569
2/ but her Mad Scene - a beloved device of bel canto composers and sopranos - is what compels her uncle to tell the rejected suitor “You must save your rival,” leading to the greatest baritone-bass duet in Italian opera, “Suoni le trombe,” “Let the trumpets sound”; cf....
3/ cf. Hampson/Ramey duet album, “No Tenors Allowed.” - Star is Anna Netrebko, to whom we wish quick recovery: she recently got a pos ‘rona test while rehearsing DON CARLO at the Bolshoi. Elvira in PURITANI was a long-ago role for her, but it shows off her voice well....
4/ That’s it, there IS NO tweet #4!
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