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New Amsterdam Opera has announced the cast for its spring production of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia. The Cast for Lucrezia Borgia includes Toni Marie Palmertree as Lucrezia Borgia, TODD THOMAS as ...

Double your bel canto pleasure when two of opera’s most celebrated sopranos make their Washington National Opera debuts in “Lucrezia Borgia.” Sondra Radvanovsky and Renee Fleming share the title role ...

Mike Figgis makes his operatic directorial debut with Donizetti’s seldom performed opera about the notorious Renaissance family. His movie-making background manifests itself in a film that alternates ...

As part of its already controversial policy to revitalise opera by asking directors from film and theatre to stage it, English National Opera has let Mike Figgis loose on Lucrezia Borgia, Donizetti's ...

Portrait of Lucrezia Borgia by Bartolomeo Veneziano (c. 1510). Public domain. Houston Public Media’s Arts & Culture Director, St.John Flynn, and opera expert, Eric Skelly, discuss Gaetano Donizetti’s ...

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On Saturday night, Washington National Opera opened a new production of Donizetti’s seldom performed Lucrezia Borgia, created for Renée Fleming’s first stage appearance at the Kennedy Center Opera ...