The mythic story of Orfeo ed Euridice has been one of the standards since the beginning of opera. It concerns…
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In 1851, Rigoletto was a challenge in all sorts of ways. For a start, it was based on Victor Hugos…
Vocal Score Mazurca Sombrillos No 6 B From Luisa Fernanda By Torroba. Voice and piano. See more info… The flower…
The opera is based on the following work: La Balade du grand macabre (2002), Michel de Ghelderode Gy�rgy Ligeti (b….
La Rondine is the only opera among Puccini’s mature works that is generally passed over in the current repertory–and with…
online references on Richard Strauss As always with Strauss, much can be made of the historical and political context of…
Scholars and musicologists quibble endlessly over Cosi–about its musical form (or lack of the form of the earlier operas), about…
Strasburg Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Jan Latham-Koenig: Dialogues Des Carmelites (1999) DVD In Francis Poulencs Dialogues of the…
Online references on Ferruccio Busoni While Berlioz based his La Damnation de Faust (1846) on the seminal work of Goethe,…
The Czech composer Leo Janacek is most frequently represented in the current repertory by his operas Jenufa and Kat’a Kabanova,…
Online references on Akhnaten Opera has from the very beginning focussed on myth and ritual. So Philip Glass’ three act…
Our capsule review of the 1998 San Francisco world premiere of the opera the film with Marlon Brando and Vivien…
Schedule of other performances around the world Online references on Verdi The dress rehearsal for the premiere performance of Verdi’s…
The University of Maryland under the direction of Leon Major has commissioned an engaging new opera by music theater librettist…