Let me tell you about an intergalactic oratorio. What on earth is that, you might conceivably ask. And in order to initiate a dialogue I might suggest that you speculate about its constituent parts. A ...

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… ...

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

of ‘the Yellow Label’ have been central to the recording of Wagner’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sensitive Plant”] (1914). (Respighi composed a third piece with a text by ...

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

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.

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

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 ...