A great post from Opera Chic about singer Leo Nucci:
A couple years ago, Opera Chic was very impressed -- but not surprised -- to learn, watching a documentary about the great baritone Leo Nucci, that Nucci -- despite having sung Rigoletto about 500 times in his career -- routinely goes back to his facsimile copy of Verdi's manuscript, to study it again. Because as he put it, "it's just like Shakespeare, no matter how well you think you know him, every time you go back you simply discover new things you did not know were there, new accenti you hadn't noticed, new subtle but really important nuances that manifest themselves the more you study the score".
Read the whole post.
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