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 ...

The Metropolitan has recently re-released on DVD the 1978 telecast of Pavarotti’s first Cavaradossi at the Metropolitan. The greater testimony to the ongoing fame of this tenor is a separate Decca ...

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.

sequences, particularly those which open and close the opera, retain their ...

from through all three works. Violins were antiphonally divided, double-basses placed to the extreme left, along with timpani behind them, and violas and cellos placed evenly across the centre of the ...

the final phase of his operatic career. Here, finally, he found his true ...

Synopsis Act I A magnificent gallery leading into the Harem; underground hall leading into the prisons; the inside of the Harem. The beautiful slave Zaira is about to marry Orosmane, the Sultan of ...

The opera was given its premiere in Dresden on 29 May 1901, and a measure of its success resides in the fact that it was given its New York premiere just a year later in 1902. Fully in line with the ...

Music, led to mutual international renown. And, it was the story of their repute and rivalry which actress Lindsay Duncan recounted with telling dry wit at St John’s Smith Square, through excerpts ...

appears at the end of performances and is deservedly applauded, for she symbolizes the triumph of good over evil, values we all want to believe in. This gives The Passenger such potent extra-musical ...

Moreover, the conductor is a good ëroutinierí and thatís all that can be said. Nowadays one doesnít accept anymore the truncated versions of yore with almost half an hour of music missing. Still as a ...

Charles Mackerras leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Opera Chorus, and a very “BBC” cast, with American Arlene Saunders joining Norman Bailey, Kenneth Woollam, and Rosalind Plowright. Palmer ...