“It’s possible that we’ve just heard the greatest performance of Otello in its entire history.”   I remember hearing words to that effect from Pierluigi Petrobelli, the director of Italy’s Institute for Verdi Studies, when I bumped into him as I was leaving La Scala on the night of February 5, 1987—the exact hundredth anniversary […]

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