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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Co-curated and introduced by Music Director, Antonio Pappano, seated at the ...

There is no greater name in lieder composition than that of Franz Schubert, and he desperately wanted to make a name for himself as a composer of opera as well. However, his operatic efforts met only ...

In many ways the image also seems iconic of Heinrich Biberís Missa Christi resurgentis, recorded here by the English Concert under the direction of Andrew Manze. The Mass itself is for large ...

Music composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck. Libretto by Nicolas-FranÁois ...

In 1934, John Christie launched an institution of English musical life with Fritz Busch and Carl Ebert: The Glyndebourne Festival. Since 1951, the Festival has staged four productions of Mozart’s ...

Belasco, dedicated to Queen Alexandra (!), and premiered in New York in 1910.

his 2011 opera based on Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, Irish composer Gerald Barry treats Wilde as the ultimate Tweeter and takes ...

Gatti’s opera skills made for an unforgettable, sublime experience. extremes Gatti’s Mahler felt flat, even a bit superficial. Mr. Gatti’s conducting style is too polished, too refined.