STEPHEN FOSTER: "Beautiful Child of Song"That unique mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani (1933-1989) sings, and frequent collaborator Gil Kalish accompanies, this haunting Foster song, from their Nonesuch CD Songs of America.by KenThis is a somewhat unusual pr... »
The storm from Act III of Janáček's Kátya Kabanová, played by the Prague National Theater Orchestra under Jaroslav Krombholc."Storms are punishment, sent to usto make us realize the power of the Almighty!"-- the merchant Dikoj, in Act III of Janáček's ... »
There are funny storms too! Alexander Prior conducts the deliciously raging thunderstorm in Act II of Rossini's Barber of Seville at the Chuvash National Opera in the Volga River port of Cheboksary, capital of Russia's Chuvash Republic, November 2009. ... »
