compilation is at once a celebration of Mahler’s enduring music in sound ...

Music composed by Louise Bertin. Libretto by Victor Hugo from his novel ...

roles in the opera, notably that of her Chevalier des Grieux, but a ...

Drawing on the tradition of operas on historic topics, the composer used the opportunity to recount the story of the sixteenth-century century painter Matthias Gr¸newald, best known today for his ...

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 ...

‘Canticle’ is the term Britten used to denote an extended setting of a text of spiritual substance. The five Canticles span his career: the first dates from 1947, two years after the celebrated ...

complaints of a French overdose; but most opera lovers in the rest of the ...

The opera was given its premiere in Dresden on 29 May 1901, and a measure of its success resides in the fact that it was given its New York premiere just a year later in 1902. Fully in line with the ...

The highlight of BWV 56 is, for me, the aria ‘Endlich, endlich wird ...

Music composed by Ambroise Thomas. Libretto by Barbier and CarrÈ based on Goethe’s novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (1795-6 ).

Co-curated and introduced by Music Director, Antonio Pappano, seated at the ...

Music composed by Stephen Storace. Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, after ...