The Met's Billy Budd; City Opera's The Turk in Italy
As befits a 94-year-old dowager, New York City's Metropolitan Opera has a taste for velvet and Verdi. That makes its first premiere this season a surprise: Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd, a brooding sea tale seldom produced since its Covent Garden debut in 1951. Meanwhile, as if it had planned its major fall production for contrapuntal effect, the New York City Operaa 34-year-old, often saucy upstart just across the way at Lincoln Centerreached back to Rossini for a high note. The Rossini opera, to be...
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