Arias from Siroe can be found on the following recordings: Handel – The Rival Queens Glorious Handel – Soprano Arias…
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After a number new or imported productions that have, by and large, been indifferently received, the Royal Opera returns to…
The Mazeppa Legend in European Romanticism (1974), Hubert F. Babinski Online references on Mazeppa Vulture, dove, and arrow are the…
Online references on Eugene Onegin "Life is not like a novel" is one of the catch phrases of Eugene Onegin,…
the short story on which the opera is based Premiered in Leningrad in 1934, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk achieved considerable…
This barber is the very same character known so well from Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, but while both The…
Online references on La Finta Giardiniera Scholars debate the classification of Mozart’s early opera, La Finta Giardiniera, which contains elements…
Online references on Alcina Alcina was written at a time in Handel’s career in London when he faced competition from…
Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism (1995), Steven Watson Gertrude Stein Original serigraph…
Online references on Berlioz The roots of the Faust story go back to early 16th century Germany where there was…
Online references on Rossini Cinderella has a long literary history, even preceding its inclusion in Perrault’s Mother Goose stories published…
Based on Alexander Pushkins 1833 short story, Tchaikovskys penultimate operatic work is a musically idiosyncratic mixture of his recognizable orchestral…
Giordanos Andrea Chenier was his fourth opera, first performed at La Scala on 28 March 1896. Seven years earlier his…
the Ostrovsky play on which the opera is based Before Stanislavsky’s development of his method of psychological realism in the…