NEW YORK (Billboard) - Cecilia Bartoli could have followed the path of least resistance. When the Italian mezzo-soprano burst onto the opera scene in the early '90s with a standard repertoire of ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW ONCE DESCRIBED OPERA AS THE STORY OF a soprano and a tenor who want to go to bed together and a baritone who wants to stop them (Hadlock 68). Shaw's whim sical definition is, of ...