There is a lot to celebrate here, vocally and instrumentally. The production itself will have to percolate ...

This is Oropesa's Traviata, a truly fine document of her excellence in this opera

One of Verdi's greatest works, Rigoletto can and should leave an undelbile mark on the listener

Only a few days ago, Classical Explorer featured a post on a production of Lohengrin [https://www.classicalexplorer.com/lohengrin-from-stuttgart/] that, while fascinating, played fast and free with what Wagner actually intended. So it makes the perfect contrast to introduce director Franco Zeffirelli's Il trovatore (The Troubadour) in