Le Villi and La Navarraise at the Bard Festival.
by Paul J. Pelkonen
This summer's Bard Music Festival is focused almost entirely on the music of Giacomo Puccini, the Italian opera composer who stands at the end of a four hundred-year tradition of opera as that country's dominant art form. From his early competition pieces to the unfinished wonders of his final opera Turandot, Puccini was the climax of a long line of composers and somehow the end of the road.
by Paul J. Pelkonen
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| Sean Pannikar (left) and Talise Trevigne in a tense moment from Puccini's Le Villi. Photo by Cory Weaver © 2016 Bard Music Festival. |
