No announcement was made, but it was evident from his opening “Je ne sais si je veille” – almost lost under Antonio Pappano’s surging orchestra – that this was Kaufmann battling for survival: holding ...

The flattering look dilutes the dramatic effect, however. Less perfection needed. For you need to suspend much disbelief to accept Kaufmann (pictured below) as a man so prey to doubt about his sexual ...

LONDON — "I like it very much,” Verdi wrote of “La Forza del Destino” a few months before his opera was to open. “I don’t know if the public will feel the same, but it is certainly something quite out ...