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Arizona Opera Scores a Double Play »

Giacomo Puccini, December 22, 1858 – November 29, 1924 Many sopranos, regardless of their vocal catagory, have yearned to include Puccini’s Madama Butterfly into their repertoire and unfortunately the annals are filled with stories of their unsuccessful attempts. But that was not the case with the Arizona Opera Company which had the good fortune of [...]

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    The articles on Rigoletto, L'Elisir d'amore, Khovanshchina, Macbeth, Boris Godunov, La Forza del destino and Wagner's Ring Cycle were first published in Transactions of the Association of Russian-American Scholars in the USA, Vol 33, 2004.

    The articles Primitive Russia Stakes Its Claim on Wagner's Ring, The Mariinsky Invasion and The Mariinsky's Boris Godunov Hits Its Mark were published in Transactions of the Association of Russian-American Scholars in the USA, Vol 34, 2006-2007.

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