Opera Chic was invited by BBC Music Magazine to write a 3-page feature on the state of Italian opera for their September 2010 edition. Under the severe glare of coverboy Maestro Riccardo Muti, OC's proud to be within the pages of the world's best-selling classical music magazine.
So what does OC have to say about the current crisis that's been plaguing Italian (and really, the world's) opera houses? You'll have to buy the September issue to find out! Hey, it comes with a free Mahler's 7th CD (with the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Maestro Gianandrea Noseda). And if that's not reason enough, there's also an author profile with OC's mug shot.
You can't get the CD tracks for free, but after the jump is a tiny preview...