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

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 ...

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 the mountains of the vast Auvergne country near the south of France lays the inspiration of Canteloube’s Chants d’Auvergne. Marie-Joseph Canteloube, born in 1879 at Annonay, spent his childhood in ...

“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, ...

So wrote David Blake in an essay, ‘Recollections’, published in 1995 in Hanns Eisler: A Miscellany, of which Blake was editor.

From the opening scene, Louis XIV would have felt quite at home in Versailles or the AcadÈmie Royal de Musique, 2 viewing a performance of Lully’s TragÈdies Lyriques. 3 It was, then, the custom to ...

The Metropolitan has recently re-released on DVD the 1978 telecast of Pavarotti’s first Cavaradossi at the Metropolitan. The greater testimony to the ongoing fame of this tenor is a separate Decca ...

Hahn, perhaps a lesser musical genius, but ever sensitive and courteous to his guests, sees to it that each one’s contribution is noted and echoed in his own offerings. The first group, Sept Chansons ...

the final phase of his operatic career. Here, finally, he found his true ...

Mirra (1920, Rome) is a setting of the final two acts of a tragedy by Count Vittorio Alfieri (1749-1803). Alfieri was a major figure in the development of Italian literature. His fame rests on ...

Loosely linked by the Drama Queens theme — all the arias were sung by female characters under some sort of pressure, the concert was really a way of dusting off music which has been neglected, partly ...