nothing to do with Wagner’s opus. Nor really much to with anything else, ...

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

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

Telemann), Venice had half a dozen theaters playing opera several nights a week ...

entertainment for any quiet evening at home. So, how about this: an opera ...

Bruch (1838-1920) may be best known for his Violin Concerto no 1, but this first ever recording of his full opera should broaden interest in his output as a whole. Bruch’s Die Loreley is a very early ...

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Once in a while you come across adventurous programming which takes you worlds away from the tired predictability of some promoters. That was the case here, in an assembly of pieces predominantly ...

Had the Kent Nagano pit not been appallingly lackluster perhaps some chance illuminations of the Strauss score might have been struck, as was Mr. Wilson’s intention. Just now, 22 years later Mr.

Unlike many of his forebears in the nineteenth century, he did not adapt the version of the story by Goethe but, instead, returned to the older tradition of the story as found in the puppet plays.

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 ...

Composed originally for a Vienna premiere in 1864 the present version of Les FÈes du Rhin, or Die Rheinnixen, was published in the last few years as part of the critical edition of the complete works ...