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Never mere entertainment, Giuseppe Verdi’s operas evoke the depths of human feelings.
The Metropolitan Opera’s production of “Rigoletto” updates the action to 1960 Las Vegas, and the Duke is a Sinatra-style nightclub singer.
Verdi’s librettist Antonio Somma based his script on an actual assassination at a masked ball.
The Last Night of the Proms has been a yearly fixture on the British musical calendar since 1895 and is embraced by music lovers the world over.
Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra: Opening Night. To officially open the annual Mostly Mozart Festival, the festival’s orchestra fittingly performs an all-Mozart program that includes “Overture to La Clemenza di Tito”
