Sensitive Plant”] (1914). (Respighi composed a third piece with a text by ...

Bruch (1838-1920) may be best known for his Violin Concerto no 1, but this first ever recording of his full opera should broaden interest in his output as a whole. Bruch’s Die Loreley is a very early ...

Telemann), Venice had half a dozen theaters playing opera several nights a week ...

both Rinaldo and Armida in his epic Gerusalemme Liberata.

Those who attended the performances without any knowledge of the operetta (retitled The Grand Duchess) probably left hoping to have no further acquaintance. Crass, manic, forcedómany an antonym for ...

perhaps we had all better settle down to this new era.

become the most popular opera in the world’. He was right: 150 years on Carmen is probably the best-known, most oft-performed opera, ...

Composed originally for a Vienna premiere in 1864 the present version of Les FÈes du Rhin, or Die Rheinnixen, was published in the last few years as part of the critical edition of the complete works ...

His celebrity-sibling, the soprano Nancy Storace, a favourite with Emperor Joseph II and prima buffa in the Italian opera troupe that he had established at the Burgtheater two years earlier, sang the ...

music, including surrealistic political satire, and amplifying singers. Poet Alice Goodman did not write the libretto around a conventional plot.

Perhaps the operaís unflattering depiction of the Austrians as invaders and repressors of the Swiss people had something to do with the operaís long absence from the Viennese repertoire. More likely, ...

Like a hallucinogenic sugar cube, this Medici Arts DVD of Hans Werner Henze’s *Der junge Lord*, with libretto by Ingeborg Bachmann, will take viewers on a wild ride and really put it to the system.