Listening to Downton Abbey (part 2)
by Michael Accinno Note: Listening to Downton Abbey (part 1) is available HERE. On 8 June 1926, a distinguished crowd gathered at London’s Covent Garden for Dame Nellie Melba’s farewell performance as Mimi in Puccini’s La bohème. Like many of the “Melba nights” of decades past,… Read More