Haydn wrote 15 operas. Thanks to English Touring Opera, there’s a rare opportunity to see one of them this autumn. Haydn the opera composer. Really? The story of the symphony is unthinkable without ...

Most of Haydn's two dozen or so operas are deemed untheatrical and rarely performed, while about half of Puccini's dozen are among the greatest hits of all time. These composers would seem to make ...

LA CANTERINA, a two-act opera written by a young Joseph Haydn, premiered in 1767 in the Archbishop’s Summer Palace (today’s Government Office residence) in Bratislava. It is also the earliest opera ...

The Peabody Opera Theatre gave a spirited presentation of “La Fedelta Premiata” on Friday, and should be commended for giving Baltimore a rare opportunity to experience this example of the neglected ...

Composer anniversaries are a good reason to explore less obvious repertoire, and here Haydn’s operas are in the spotlight. He didn’t have a Mozartian gift for tightly paced drama, but the individual ...

After a season of dark and tragic stories, the Sarasota Opera closes with much lighter fare that will be new to just about everyone. Joseph Haydn’s “Deceit Unwitted” (or “L’infedelta delusa”) had its ...

Much as I revere him as a composer of symphonies and string quartets, Haydn has always seemed to me a total non-starter as an opera composer. A great part of the problem is, of course, the more ...

In 1958, rummaging through the Hungarian National Library in Budapest, a young U.S. musicologist named H. C. Robbins Landon unearthed a treasure-trove of eight operas by Franz Joseph Haydn. The scores ...

Once again Sarasota Opera will produce a rarely heard work by a major composer when Joseph Haydn’s Deceit Outwitted (L’infedeltà delusa) opens, the last work in the company’s 2024 Winter Opera ...

The Austrian composer's operas have long been accused of lousy drama and lacking tunes – how unfair, says John Allison Brave: 'Life on the Moon' performed by English Touring Opera . Credit: Photo: ...