Wet and Dry
Original Airdate: September 23rd, 2009
Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: dry eyes in a rainstorm…
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Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: dry eyes in a rainstorm…
Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: drenched in Romantic perspiration…
Here’s a hint: It’s Shakespeare. . . with a German twist!
Here’s a hint: Music from the of time Shakespeare himself!
Here’s a hint: A dramatic fight to the death!
Here’s a hint: A beautiful 20th-century take on an English master.
Like other great opera composers, Giuseppe Verdi saw a great deal of dramatic potential in the plays of William Shakespeare.
He set three of the Bard’s plays as operas during his long and celebrated career. While his last two operas, Otello and Falstaff, are masterpieces of their own, Verdi composed his first Shakespearean opera, Macbeth, way [...]
Here’s a hint: shipwrecks are in the forecast…