The Wigmore Hall, which saw so many premieres of his works and where he made his professional debut in 1942, is honouring the ...

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

The maestro himself took his distance from this work, even though the opera had clocked more performances during his lifetime than all his other operaís (sorry Gesamtkunstwerken). But this was not at ...

A 1977 opera by Thea Musgrave, not to be confused with Gaetano Donizetti’s 1835 Maria Stuarda. Unlike the bel canto execution of Mary (b. 1542, d. 1567), it is a… ...

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 ...

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

the opera’s strange instrumental colourings which recreate the exotic imagery of Luigi Illica’s libretto for Mascagni’s tale of degraded and redeemed innocence.

appears at the end of performances and is deservedly applauded, for she symbolizes the triumph of good over evil, values we all want to believe in. This gives The Passenger such potent extra-musical ...

the creation of opera, an Italian invention. Primo Riccitelli, whose name is ...

or as completely beyond the bounds of civil etiquette.

The Danish National Symphony Orchestra’s recording of _Maskarade_ succeeds admirably in striking a careful balance between these ideals. The present DaCapo SACD is an enhanced reissue of a 1977 ...

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 ...