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Ask Miss Manners and I'm sure she'll agree: When a company like the San Francisco Opera adds a work to its repertoire specifically as a vehicle for your return, it's only right to pitch in and give a ...

Double your bel canto pleasure when two of opera’s most celebrated sopranos make their Washington National Opera debuts in “Lucrezia Borgia.” Sondra Radvanovsky and Renee Fleming share the title role ...

Notwithstanding its many faults, it felt like the silver screen's Ring cycle. Last night saw Figgis try his hand at a real Gesamtkunstwerk, Donizetti's rarely heard Lucrezia Borgia (1833). Could he ...

San Francisco Opera’s “Lucrezia Borgia” is a handsome production about a psychotic mom with a heart. Given its juicy and even kinky subject matter — power politics, poisonings and intimations of ...

Thought experiment: Picture Edward Hopper's Nighthawks done up in sunny springtime pastels. Now imagine Lady Macbeth pausing midsleepwalk to reel off a tender rendition of “The Rainbow Connection.” If ...

As the opera ends, Gennaro is dead and Lucrezia (soprano Renee Fleming) mourns with the moving aria "Era desso il figlio mio" -- "He was my son" -- leading directly to the bombastic finale. The ...

Making his opera helming debut, Mike Figgis is clearly not short of ideas about "Lucrezia Borgia." Filled with lustful looks and heaving bosoms plus gratuitous nudity (female, of course), Figgis’ ...

As the opera ends, Gennaro is dead and Lucrezia (soprano Renee Fleming) mourns with the moving aria "Era desso il figlio mio" -- "He was my son" -- leading directly to the bombastic finale. The ...

Portrait of Lucrezia Borgia by Bartolomeo Veneziano (c. 1510). Public domain. Houston Public Media’s Arts & Culture Director, St.John Flynn, and opera expert, Eric Skelly, discuss Gaetano Donizetti’s ...

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Notwithstanding its many faults, it felt like the silver screen's Ring cycle. Last night saw Figgis try his hand at a real Gesamtkunstwerk, Donizetti's rarely heard Lucrezia Borgia (1833). Could he ...