Month: November 2005

Orfeo has joined the ranks of CD companies adding artwork to the inner casing beneath the disc. For this recording of Argentinean composer Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983), a series of photographs of gauchos riding horses on the pampas receives a modified Andy Warhol treatment.

Eight long and dark years later, La Fenice rose, once again, from the ashes following a devastating fire which destroyed the theater in 1996. For the ìformalî re-opening of the refurbished Venetian landmark, its management wisely chose Verdiís original score for his 1853 opera for La Fenice: La Traviataóanother survivor that rose from the ashes.