Fear and Trembling in Katonah
The plot of Gioachino Rossini’s Semiramide sounds like it was made up by one of those people who hates opera.
We’re in Babylon, eight centuries B.C. The queen, Semiramide, has killed her husband, as queens were wont to do, with the help of a power-hungry prince, Assur, who now expects to marry her. But Read More
