Opera Amandante in the list of the best projects of classical music for the year 2024
What is Amandante? An anti-opera, perhaps. Inspired by Plato’s Symposium, Shalygin wrote a wondrous, stylistically diverse work. The premiere took a while to get going, but then a masterful dramaturgy swept you along on a rollercoaster of emotions, in a triumph of musical imagination.
