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BAD BREAKFAST

June 12, 2015 by Speight Jenkins 14 Comments

I have been reviewing opera at least since 1947 when I first realized that every singer was not perfect. On that occasion the Violetta tried for the high E-flat at the end of Act I of La Traviata and spectacularly missed it. Ten years and some two hundred performances later the Dallas Morning News published my first critique--of the Metropolitan Opera's Samson et Dalila, with Rise Stevens. I loved … [Read more...]

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