A wonderfully inventive and fresh staging of Verdi's last opera. It is a modern production but the music of the "maestro" is intact. Bryn Terfel. the remarkable Welsh tenor, is a suitably gross, ...

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My opera experiences in Pretoria persuaded me to arrange my annual holidays around opera festivals whenever possible. I saw Pavarotti in Tosca in New York and Bryn Terfel’s NY Met debut in The ...

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For two years, Abdul Carter was a source of stress in then-Indiana coach Tom Allen's life. In Allen's seven years at Indiana, there had been only a few players he coached against that were as ...