First Word: Germanic (von) trappings sink Italian opera

By Mark Thomas
Updated April 23 2018 - 10:16pm, first published June 23 2014 - 4:53pm

The other night in Munich we paid one Euro per minute to watch a comically grand and grandly comic opera, Rossini’s The Barber of Seville.

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