Springtime of the peoples
Florent Siaud directs Lohengrin in Strasbourg (****) [live]
Wagner always had an ambivalent relationship with the Italian bel canto. The castrato Filippo Sassaroli, a colleague of his sister Klara at the Italian opera in Dresden, occasionally showed up at Wagner's mother's house. Despite his good-naturedness, he terrified the child with his screech…
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