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

This CD collaboration between the early music viol ensemble Fretwork and vocalist Emma Kirkby is devoted to songs of William Byrd composed in the vernacular to be sung with string accompaniment; ...

Like a hallucinogenic sugar cube, this Medici Arts DVD of Hans Werner Henze’s *Der junge Lord*, with libretto by Ingeborg Bachmann, will take viewers on a wild ride and really put it to the system.

Music composed by Otto Nicolai (1810-1849). Libretto by Salomon Hermann von Mosenthal after the play of the same name by William Shakespeare. First performance: 9 March 1849 at Kˆnigliches Opernhaus, ...

At the heart of the programme lay Claude Debussy’s Cinq PoËmes de Baudelaire (1889) and Jonathan Dove’s Letters from Claude. The latter was commissioned by the Richard ...

Unlike many of his forebears in the nineteenth century, he did not adapt the version of the story by Goethe but, instead, returned to the older tradition of the story as found in the puppet plays.

Those who attended the performances without any knowledge of the operetta (retitled The Grand Duchess) probably left hoping to have no further acquaintance. Crass, manic, forcedómany an antonym for ...

“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, ...

enthral her listeners and retains dedicated fans on several continents. Although Jean has been acclaimed for a significant number of other roles, ...

both Rinaldo and Armida in his epic Gerusalemme Liberata.

It is, namely, Mozart’s last work, a Requiem Mass left unfinished at his death in 1791, later finished —based on Mozart’s notes and sketches by his student Franz Saver S¸ssmayr. In this Aix edition it ...

music, including surrealistic political satire, and amplifying singers. Poet Alice Goodman did not write the libretto around a conventional plot.