Composed originally for a Vienna premiere in 1864 the present version of Les FÈes du Rhin, or Die Rheinnixen, was published in the last few years as part of the critical edition of the complete works ...

First Performance: 11 March 1867 at the OpÈra, Paris. Revised version 10 January 1884 at Teatro alla Scala, Milan.

letters from Lassus to Albrecht’s son, Wilhelm, also survives. The letters move ...

present production — the one Jean-Pierre Ponnelle was doing all over the operatic world — was created for Marilyn Horne, not so terribly long ago.

the final phase of his operatic career. Here, finally, he found his true ...

on “the development of young singers and the reinvigoration of bel canto”. This year, students attended masterclasses by Millo, Bruce Ford and Nelly Miricioiu, before presenting a Young Artists ...

Music, led to mutual international renown. And, it was the story of their repute and rivalry which actress Lindsay Duncan recounted with telling dry wit at St John’s Smith Square, through excerpts ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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, ...

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