Learning Italian at the Metropolitan Opera
Oct 12, 2015
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By Fred Plotkin
I am writing this on a quick work trip that has me immersed in Italian conversation but, for the purposes of this article, my mind is back home in New York. Specifically at the Metropolitan Opera House. The first four operas of the Met season were Anna Bolena, Otello, Il Trovatore and Turandot.
All operas had two things in common: they had fabulous singers and they are all in Italian, the mother language of opera. The Met is doing 25 operas this season, of which 19 were composed to Italian libretti.
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