My first live performance at the Metropolitan Opera this year was Donizetti's Don Pasquale. It was a great pleasure to be at the Met again, the best part of which was hearing Anna Netrebko sing the role of Norina. Anna Netrebko was feisty and effervescent in the role of Norina in this comic opera. The role required Netrebko to assume various personae.
Bernard Fitch
11/11/2010
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Music I'm Listening To
- Tosca by Puccini. Maria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Tito Gobbi:
This 1953 recording conducted by Victor de Sabata at La Scala is likely the definitive recording of the opera. A 1964 video of the same cast at Covent Garden can be found on "You Tube."