Of today’s opera stars, tenor Rolando Villazón may be the “hottest” (if readers will allow that Entertainment Tonight term). He has gone from being an Operalia winner a few years back to assuming ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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