Opera Philadelphia’s 50th-season opener, Rossini’s “Il Viaggio a Reims,” performed over the past two weekends at the Academy of Music, was appropriately tongue-in-cheek. Anthony Roth Costanzo, who ...
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A paper-thin plot booms with a rock-solid orchestra in Opera Philadelphia’s ‘Il Viaggio a Reims’
Much ado about nothing? Or everything? With light comedy, lack of tragedy, minimal plot, and a succession of glorious arias, the Rossini opera Il viaggio a Reims was definitely ‘ado’ — in overdrive — ...
The opera that celebrates the coronation of a king! The opera, which has an Italian libretto by Luigi Balocchi, is based in part on Corinne ou l’Italie (1807) by Germaine de Staël, and it premiered at ...
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