In this madcap farce, Max (Michael Fasano), is general dogsbody to Henry Saunders (Jim Schilling), the high-strung manager of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company. Saunders is panicky because they are ...
In 1913, when the late Enrico Caruso was in his prime and gut-busting Tenor Leo Slezak had just sung his Manhattan farewell, a stocky, brush-headed Italian named Giovanni Martinelli strutted the ...
Tip-top Italian-style tenors have always been a scarce commodity, and for the past two decades they have been growing scarcer & scarcer. Opera impresarios count on the fingers of one hand (Gigli, ...