Agrippina was only Handel’s third full-length opera. Composed for the sophisticated opera audience of Venice at the end of Handel’s…
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Mexico City, Opera Nacional de Mexico September 21 – October 1 The scene is a dusty street in nineteenth-century Seville,…
Don Giovanni – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Francisco D’Andrade (1856-1921) as Don Giovanni, 1912 Buy the print at Art.com Given its…
Riccardo Zandonai is hardly a familiar name. Just about the only one of his operas that rates more than a…
Handel wrote Rinaldo to knock ’em dead. It was 1710, and he had just arrived in London with a reputation…
Handel’s oratorios were not composed for the theatrical stage where, in England, religious dramas were forbidden until the 20th century….
Online references on Beethoven If Fidelio is not the finest argument that opera transcends the sum of its parts, what…