Is Licitra Tomorrow’s Tenor? The Heir Apparent Appraised

The setting was Cleveland’s vast Public Auditorium; the opera was Verdi’s La Forza del Destino ; and the Metropolitan Opera’s touring cast was an A-list of the 1950′s: Zinka Milanov, Richard Tucker, Robert Merrill, Cesare Siepi. I was 12 years old and attending my first opera, and even though my vantage point was a football Read More