Franz Joseph Haydn was busily conducting the first rehearsal of his opera, Orfeo ed Euridice, when into the new King’s Theater walked the royal bailiffs with an order prohibiting the performance. King ...

Donald Macleod looks at the final chapter of Haydn's operatic career, with excerpts from Armida, a tale of love and sorcery set in the Middle Ages, and Orfeo ed Euridice, a version of the Orpheus myth ...

The 13-year-old schoolboy wanted to know why no score was available for Haydn’s Symphony No. 58. His teacher told him that “forty years ago a German publisher [Breitkopf & Härtel] started out to ...

Austrian composer Joseph Haydn may have been known as the “Father of the Symphony,” but he also penned a number of operas – including one that was declared contraband and shut down before its premiere ...

Haydn: Symphony No. 43 “Mercury”; Ariadne auf Naxos Cantata; Sceni di Berenice; Ifigenia in Tauride: Oreste’s Recitative and Aria; Orfeo ed Euridice: “L’anima del filosofo” Eleni Matos, mezzo-soprano, ...