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 ...

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 ...

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

and House-debut, Gary Lehman, who earned the standing ovation he received for that feat, sharing it with the lady, Janice Baird, who jumped in to join him in mid-scene. It was not the greatest ...

‘beauty’, veered close to the merely boring.

Music composed by Leonardo Vinci. Libretto by Silvio Stampiglia.

Shortly after the premiËre of Olivo e Pascuale in Rome, on January 7, 1827, Donizetti returned to Naples to negotiate a contract with Domenico Barbaja, manager of the three most prestigious theaters ...

As Richard Boldrey puts it, in Guide to Operatic Roles and Arias (1994), they are the “witches, bitches, or britches”. But, even those — Nancy Evans, Edith Coates — who have reached a position of ...

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 ...

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

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 ...