Fanfare, May 1st, 2008
OFFENBACH Bluebeard * Michael Borowitz, cond; Peter Foltz (Bluebeard); Jessie Wright Martin (Boulette); Michael Denos (Saphir); Betha Christopher (Fleurette/the Princess); Patrick Howle (Count Oscar); Jacob Allen (Popolani); Gary Moss (King Bobèche); Ohio Light Op O & Ch * ALBANY TROY 993 (2 CDs: 116:23 *) "He was primarily an entertainer, a man of the theater whose immediate ambition was a full house. As such, in his time and ours, he has often been contemptuously dismissed. Yet his music survives, even hindered by libretti that are no longer topical. Where, today, are the grand operas ...
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