Lucrezia Borgia: Washington National Opera. Opera Canada | March 22, 2009 | COPYRIGHT 2009 Opera Canada Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Lucrezia Borgia is a prima donna's opera if ever there was one. Despite its melodic wealth and solid construction, it's potentially poisonous (at least at the box office) if the right soprano isn't around to dole out an antidote. The Met, over a century ago, in 1904, learned that lesson the hard way: the company's one-and-only performance touted Caruso as its leading man, but with a second-string Italian debutante, Maria de Macchi, in the title role, the New York Times's Richard Aldrich was firm that this "opera of the past" fully "deserved the neglect into which it has ...

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