image=http://www.operatoday.com/Les_Amours_de_Paris_et_d_He.png image_description=Les Amours de P‚ris et d’HÈlËne by Jacques-Louis David (1788) [MusÈe du ...

EMI Classics’ release of The Very Best of Bevery Sills is a mixed bag. Unlike similar EMI compilations of Maria Callas, Mirella Freni, or Lucia Popp, who all present an array of signature arias or art ...

given. (The last New York performance — a wonderful concert by the Opera ...

Gaetano Donizetti’s Elvida, recently issued by Opera Rara, is a perfect example. The composer’s only one-act seria work has been criticized for its plot, and its score, especially the vocal lines, has ...

It got a boost from the 1950/60s bel canto revival, but in recent decades it has seldom been revived. Gala takes Donizetti fans back to the last years of that revival, with a four-disc set comprised ...

In many ways the image also seems iconic of Heinrich Biberís Missa Christi resurgentis, recorded here by the English Concert under the direction of Andrew Manze. The Mass itself is for large ...

“In the early 1800s, Rossini’s operas permeated Italy, from the opera house to myriad arrangements heard in public and private. But after Rossini stopped composing, a sharp decline in popularity drove ...

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.

Many recent Godard recordings have been made possible with support from the Center for French Romantic Music, located at the Palazzetto Bru Zane (Venice). Samson (with its magnificent choruses of ...

Now they are all grand old (mostly dead) men, and the public, which is as curious about new sounds in concert music as in popular music, having heard such sounds in the background of a hundred films, ...

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

appears at the end of performances and is deservedly applauded, for she symbolizes the triumph of good over evil, values we all want to believe in. This gives The Passenger such potent extra-musical ...