In Wordsworth’s great ode Intimations of Immortality there is an imaginative reference to “the clouds that gather round the ...

Such thoughts on the part of a humble reviewer, and very possibly most members of an audience too, were prompted by BBC ...

It seems odd to warm to the idea of the American Dream today, but it is worth remembering that for much of the second half of the nineteenth century and… ...

A single voice in a song symphony created for two voices? Not many artists have the vocal range and heft to sustain 45 minutes at this intensity but Kaufmann achieves a feat that would defy many ...

Music composed by Gaetano Donizetti to a libretto by Felice Romani after Victor Hugo’s play LucrËce Borgia.

— there is not a single opera by Mozart, Haydn, or Gluck I should not ...

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 ...

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

much of it fruitful, some of it perhaps less so, between Brecht and Weill, came ...

An introduction traces the historical development of opera interludes from seventeenth-century sinfonie, which commanded only minimal audience attention, to the nineteenth-century Wagnerian preludes ...

entire span of an opera, as we get in Strauss’s Elektra and Berg’s Wozzeck. With Strauss and Berg, the psychological opera is born.