LONDON — "I like it very much,” Verdi wrote of “La Forza del Destino” a few months before his opera was to open. “I don’t know if the public will feel the same, but it is certainly something quite out ...
Für ʺLa Giocondaʺ, ein opulentes Musikdrama mit sechs Hauptfiguren, inspirierte sich Amilcare Ponchielli bei Victor Hugos ʺAngelo, Tyrann von Paduaʺ (1835). Das Libretto stammt von Arrigo Boito, der s ...