16 Jun 2009
A classic confection that's near perfection
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A musical challenge to our view of the past
https://vimeo.com/operarara/how-to-rescue-an-opera
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/music/48074807.html?elr=KArks:DCiU1OiP:DiiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU
By William Randall Beard [Minneapolis Star Tribune, 16 June 2009]
Skylark Opera’s second annual summer festival includes a trademark operetta, Sigmund Romberg’s “The Desert Song,” and one of the great comic operas, “Don Pasquale” by Gaetano Donizetti. The latter is the only one worth seeing.