| | | |Renata Tebaldi as Violetta|Victoria de los Angeles as Violetta| Divas preserved at their peak [New Zealand Herald] 26.01.05 by Don Milne According to popular legend, one great operatic soprano ...

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.

sequences, particularly those which open and close the opera, retain their ...

Gaetano Donizetti’s first big success, Anna Bolena, serves as a “star vehicle” in the 2011 production from the Vienna State Opera, with Anna Netrebko in the title role and El?na Garan?a as Giovanna ...

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

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 ...

Garden revival. More revisions followed in 1976, including the alteration of ...

Ezio Frigerio, set designer, and Franca Squarciapino, costumes, must have collaborated closely. Frigerio’s mammoth revolving turret/stairwell features the same gold-flake detailing as the ample fabric ...

Music composed by Ambroise Thomas. Libretto by Barbier and CarrÈ based on Goethe’s novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (1795-6 ).

The people of Judah are in mourning. The Overture is heard against a simple backdrop, focusing attention on the music, and not on the “false idols” of decorative frippery. In this time of crisis, the ...

of ‘the Yellow Label’ have been central to the recording of Wagner’s ...

‘Canticle’ is the term Britten used to denote an extended setting of a text of spiritual substance. The five Canticles span his career: the first dates from 1947, two years after the celebrated ...