AVA reclaims Verdi's first opera
The overture promises Verdi at his more dire - Rigoletto, only bloodier. And then his first-ever opera, the rarely performed Oberto, written in 1839 when the composer was 26, unfolds like a manifesto of operatic revisionism. The past is touched upon and the future is predicted in the concert version presented Thursday by the Academy of Vocal Arts at the Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater.
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