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 ...

opera’s arias, most notably the celebrated ‘Cara la dolce fiamma’, have survived in the repertory).

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 ...

perhaps we had all better settle down to this new era.

entire span of an opera, as we get in Strauss’s Elektra and Berg’s Wozzeck. With Strauss and Berg, the psychological opera is born.

both Rinaldo and Armida in his epic Gerusalemme Liberata.

Sensitive Plant”] (1914). (Respighi composed a third piece with a text by ...

a little-known opera; it was insurance for the house to have a cover available, ...

BibliothËque Nationale de France – which have led to the rediscovery of countless Baroque treasures.

As John Newton comments in the notes about the audio technology used in this new release, the quality of the original record was excellent from the start, and that allows for enhancements, rather than ...

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

Staged in conjunction with Joffrey Ballet Chicago, the production features both dance and singing. Since Oropesa sings with silver tones and moves as gracefully as a dancer, she is a natural for the ...