Adam Guettel’s Tony Award-winning musical, The Light in the Piazza, is being lovingly served up in a magnificent staging at this year’s Opera Theatre of Saint Louis season. It may seem dotty to begin ...

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

In the October 2004 issue of BBC Music magazine, Amanda Holloway writes: The phrase most often used of Anna Netrebko is a ‘package’: stunning looks, acting ability and a gorgeous, effortless lyric ...

Bruch (1838-1920) may be best known for his Violin Concerto no 1, but this first ever recording of his full opera should broaden interest in his output as a whole. Bruch’s Die Loreley is a very early ...

of sun’, are, says Banquo, ‘ The instruments of darkness [who] tell us truths’.

But, to modern directors and company it presents a host of challenges: the extreme vocal virtuosity of the principal roles, its juxtaposition of genres and stylistic eclecticism, and, not least, its ...

Music composed by Gaspare Spontini. Libretto by Etienne de Jouy.

As I wrote in my review of the production, ‘her terrible bereavement, at first quietly accepted, resurges with terrifying force when … she recognises the tiny red cap that she knitted for him. Never ...

35 years, this production of one of Offenbach’s best-known works transcends the screen as a quite engaging video that works well in this well-conceived translation.

The composer wrote music in a broad range of genres, including four operas, only one of whichóhis 1954 opera Nelsonóis a full length work. Ruth, his third, was commissioned by Brittenís English Opera ...

never caught the attention of the public as he was probably never prone to smashing mirrors in local palaces either.

Drawing on the tradition of operas on historic topics, the composer used the opportunity to recount the story of the sixteenth-century century painter Matthias Gr¸newald, best known today for his ...