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 ...
Both tenors were blessed with distinctive, appealing instruments, and if the inclination might be to find Pavarotti’s voice more beautiful, Domingo often got the ...
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 ...
As his Grande Messe des Morts (Requiem) in Pappano’s LSO performance proved conclusively (August 15), there are fewer if any better spaces to hold Berlioz’s monumental imagination than London’s Royal ...
The matter of Wagner’s antisemitism – or, more to the point, whether it permeates his work, and its influence upon subsequent German cultural and social history – is a debate likely to last as long as ...
My final prom of the 2026 season is officially labelled “Strauss’s Four Last Songs” – that piece the clear intended draw – but held so, so much more, not least my introduction to conductor Paweł ...
Two death sentences; one fatal, one reprieved, and a near-fatal encounter with a whale. These events formed the central focus of dramatic performances by the Belgium ensemble Vox Luminis in their ...
Ottone in villa was Vivaldi’s first opera, although premiered not in his native Venice, but at nearby Vicenza in 1713. The title character, Otho, is one of the four Roman emperors who ruled in the ...
David Truslove talks to the operatic bass George Andguladze who makes his Covent Garden debut as the King of Egypt in Verdi’s Aida. Conducted by Daniel Oren, this is the first revival of Robert Carsen ...
Nicolas Joel’s 2016 production of Massenet’s Werther made a welcome return to Tokyo’s New National Theatre for its third revival, seen on 30 May. High expectations surrounded this revival, which ...
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 ...
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