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11 Sep 2009

Linda di Chamounix, Royal Opera House

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/a1e6ce92-9e1f-11de-b0aa-00144feabdc0.html

By Andrew Clark Financial Times, 10 September 2009]

Exactly why a handful of Donizetti operas have risen to the top of the pile, leaving so many others at the bottom, is hard to pinpoint. Conventional wisdom suggests that “Dozinetti” - “composer by the dozen”, as he was dubbed - wrote too many to exert quality control. Then you come across Linda di Chamounix, and the neglect seems unjust. I’ve seen it convincingly staged, but it represents an awkward mixed genre, melodramma semiserio, swinging towards the tragedy of Lucia di Lammermoor one moment and the comedy of Don Pasquale the next.

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