The Met brews up a production of ‘Ernani’ that’s about 97-percent caffeine free But conductor Marco Armiliato’s lackluster rendition of Verdi’s passionate score suggests he could have used a shot of double-espresso By David Rubin http://cnycafemomus.com/David_Rubin.html Perhaps the plot of Verdi’s fifth opera and early hit Ernani appealed to his audience in 1844. But in 2012, this tale of a woman pursued by three men, ending in a double suicide, is tough to embrace. I saw this l [...]
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