And that opera, Le Dernier Sorcier (The Last Sorcerer), was composed by a woman " Pauline Viardot, remembered mostly for being one of the century's great mezzos. Amy Lorette Damron Kyle, a musicologist at the Sorbonne and a singer herself, compares Viardot's Sorcier to one of opera's classic passive princess/wicked queen stories, Mozart's The Magic […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM on December 26, 2019