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 ...

the creation of opera, an Italian invention. Primo Riccitelli, whose name is ...

While the story is a complicated Old Testament plot, Mendelssohn’s music captures the tone of the tragedy with delight, whimsy, and severity. Conductor Helmuth Rilling leads the three female soloists, ...

been making the trek for as long as these cities had standing opera ...

The Shostakovich centenary in 2006 brought new attention to the composer and resulted in a barrage of recording projects, including the reissue of Haitinkís classics from the late 1970s and early ...

In today’s market, a second will not be soon arriving, but not to worry. On the debit side, although the opera’s score presents itself as the sturdy dramatic work of a talented craftsman, it lacks ...

My final prom of the 2026 season is officially labelled “Strauss’s Four Last Songs” – that piece the clear intended draw – but held so, so much more, not least my introduction to conductor Paweł ...

The label’s name and legendary yellow logo synonymous for many music lovers ...

Music composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck. Libretto by Nicolas-FranÁois ...

Bavarian State Opera’s Festival 2007 on June 30th.

It was thus with some excitement that I opened a new 3-CD set from Orfeo, consisting of the first release ever of any performance of Lohengrin conducted by the conductor sometimes known among ...

At the heart of the programme lay Claude Debussy’s Cinq PoËmes de Baudelaire (1889) and Jonathan Dove’s Letters from Claude. The latter was commissioned by the Richard ...