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, ...

Adam Guettel’s Tony Award-winning musical, The Light in the Piazza, is being lovingly served up in a magnificent staging at this year’s Opera Theatre of Saint Louis season. It may seem dotty to begin ...

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

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

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 ...

Time and Place: 15th Century Spain. Synopsis: Act One As Queen Isabella returns from a hunt, she is met by her son, Don Giovanni. Lilla suddenly bursts into the room, appealing for help from the Queen ...

enthral her listeners and retains dedicated fans on several continents. Although Jean has been acclaimed for a significant number of other roles, ...

“The operas of Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953) mark a significant contribution to twentieth-century music and theatre. Opera was Prokofiev’s preferred genre; not counting juvenile and unfinished works, ...

Each booklet contains the original libretto, along with commonly used variants, if any. In addition, pertinent biographical data, a summary of the plot, and explanatory notes are included. All text is ...

Music composed by Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901). Libretto by Augustin ...

This CD collaboration between the early music viol ensemble Fretwork and vocalist Emma Kirkby is devoted to songs of William Byrd composed in the vernacular to be sung with string accompaniment; ...

Music composed by Gaspare Spontini. Libretto by Etienne de Jouy.