Synopsis Act I A magnificent gallery leading into the Harem; underground hall leading into the prisons; the inside of the Harem. The beautiful slave Zaira is about to marry Orosmane, the Sultan of ...

A graceful first movement, respecting the marking andante comodo “comfortable pace”. The harp and strings here have a mellow richness which enhances the gentle rhythmic pulse. For “pulse” this is, ...

composer was devastated when the Paris OpÈra, the only theater in Paris then ...

Behind a gauze sceen, a madonna figure with lace veil and golden crown materializes, laying down her veil. Dark figures appear, crushing the veil and crown underfoot. Princess SalomÈ (a sensational ...

Music composed by Gaetano Donizetti. Libretto by Giuseppe Bardari after ...

From the opening scene, Louis XIV would have felt quite at home in Versailles or the AcadÈmie Royal de Musique, 2 viewing a performance of Lully’s TragÈdies Lyriques. 3 It was, then, the custom to ...

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.

staging of Birtwistle’s Mask of Orpheus: heard only once complete, in concert, since its 1986 premiere, and never since seen in the theatre. I ...

So there is a clear connection between Mahler and the Met, though the composer conducted little of his work in the great ...

Music composed by Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1858-1919). Libretto by the composer based on a ...

His celebrity-sibling, the soprano Nancy Storace, a favourite with Emperor Joseph II and prima buffa in the Italian opera troupe that he had established at the Burgtheater two years earlier, sang the ...