Jan 16, 2019
Moses stages a comeback
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On the modern premiere of an oratorio about the life of Moses.
On the modern premiere of an oratorio about the life of Moses.
On the Donizetti Festival in Bergamo, Italy.
A review of Reading Machiavelli by John McCormick.
On Italian art battles, atomic bombs, mourning Chippendale & more.
On two Verdi operas in Verona’s historic Roman amphitheater.
On the economic lessons of Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed.
On Mozart’s Don Giovanni at La Scala.
On Cagnacci’s “Repentant Magdalene: An Italian Baroque Masterpiece” at the Frick Collection.
On the Italian referendum and the unraveling of Europe.
On the wreckage and recovery of art works in the Arno River flood of 1966.