Maybe it’s old news that Les Arts Florissants is actually an opera, not just the name of Early Music guru William Christie’s famed eponymous group of players. It is a 40 minute opera, or musical idyll ...

The Wigmore Hall, which saw so many premieres of his works and where he made his professional debut in 1942, is honouring the ...

complaints of a French overdose; but most opera lovers in the rest of the ...

appears at the end of performances and is deservedly applauded, for she symbolizes the triumph of good over evil, values we all want to believe in. This gives The Passenger such potent extra-musical ...

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

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

A 1977 opera by Thea Musgrave, not to be confused with Gaetano Donizetti’s 1835 Maria Stuarda. Unlike the bel canto execution of Mary (b. 1542, d. 1567), it is a… ...

Time as a great healer or gentle eraser is a large part of Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier. If musing on transience and ageing are prevailing themes, that’s neatly balanced by the light entertainment ...

Setting: Venice, 17th Century. Synopsis: Act I [“The Lion’s Mouth”] Grand courtyard of the Ducal palace, decorated for festivities. At back, the Giant’s Stairway, and the Portico della carta, with a ...

The label’s name and legendary yellow logo synonymous for many music lovers ...

In today’s market, a second will not be soon arriving, but not to worry. On the debit side, although the opera’s score presents itself as the sturdy dramatic work of a talented craftsman, it lacks ...