Our new, knowledgable and heavily nom de plumed contributor Loki von Karajan recently saw Sondra Radvanovsky in Toronto and has something to say about it… Loki – This week, I found myself in Toronto and jumped at the chance to hear a singer I greatly admire, Ms. Sondra Radvanovsky, in concert. I’m used to seeing this… [Read More]
Elizabeth – The Met’s revival of Bellini’s La Sonnambula has great choreography, brilliant singers and neat scenery, but the staging and some of Mary Zimmerman’s production didn’t make sense to me. The problem started with the italicized note before the synopsis in the program. We are told that the Met’s production is set in a contemporary… [Read More]
Elizabeth – Last night we saw the wonderful Sondra Radvanovsky as Norma. I had seen her before at the Met in Un Ballo in Maschera, but Bellini’s Norma was really written as a vehicle for great female singers. Radvanovsky was great, I particularly liked her first Act aria, “Casta Diva”. The sustained notes she held and… [Read More]
