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

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 ...

‘Canticle’ is the term Britten used to denote an extended setting of a text of spiritual substance. The five Canticles span his career: the first dates from 1947, two years after the celebrated ...

Perhaps the operaís unflattering depiction of the Austrians as invaders and repressors of the Swiss people had something to do with the operaís long absence from the Viennese repertoire. More likely, ...

The highlight of BWV 56 is, for me, the aria ‘Endlich, endlich wird ...

Music composed by Ambroise Thomas. Libretto by Barbier and CarrÈ based on Goethe’s novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (1795-6 ).

Music composed by Stephen Storace. Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, after ...

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 ...

Co-curated and introduced by Music Director, Antonio Pappano, seated at the ...

From the fall of 1947 through the summer of 1951 composer Igor Stravinsky and poet W. H. Auden collaborated on the opera The Rake’s Progress. At the time, their self-consciously conventional work ...

The opera was given its premiere in Dresden on 29 May 1901, and a measure of its success resides in the fact that it was given its New York premiere just a year later in 1902. Fully in line with the ...

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