The present recording presents the dance music by Michel-Richard de Lalande for the comedie-ballet Les Folies de Cardenio by Charles-Antoine Coypel, performed in 1720/21. The performances by Ensemble ...

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

the creation of opera, an Italian invention. Primo Riccitelli, whose name is ...

and House-debut, Gary Lehman, who earned the standing ovation he received for that feat, sharing it with the lady, Janice Baird, who jumped in to join him in mid-scene. It was not the greatest ...

Wolf-Ferrari is better known today, though, for his series of operas in the spirit of, or directly derived from, the plays of Carlo Goldoni — the first of which was Le donne curiose (1903). And, on ...

Donizetti. Classy companions for a long-obscure composer and work! Indeed, until now, opera lovers—including singers and musicologists—had ...

As Richard Boldrey puts it, in Guide to Operatic Roles and Arias (1994), they are the “witches, bitches, or britches”. But, even those — Nancy Evans, Edith Coates — who have reached a position of ...

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

‘beauty’, veered close to the merely boring.

Music composed by Leonardo Vinci. Libretto by Silvio Stampiglia.

The Shostakovich centenary in 2006 brought new attention to the composer and resulted in a barrage of recording projects, including the reissue of Haitinkís classics from the late 1970s and early ...

Tebaldi and Del Monaco twice recorded Otello together in the studio, and we’ve reviewed a number of bootlegs starring one or the other; but this 1954 La Scala performance has, according to Myto, never ...