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 ...

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 ...

It is cause for nationwide rejoicing that Opera Montana has commissioned and produced a nigh unto flawless World Premiere of a soulful, spirited and soaring operatic treatment of A River Runs… ...

Naxos’s DVD division has already released the performances on this disc of Virgil Thomson’s scores for The Plow that Broke the Plains and The River, as soundtracks for a re-release of the original ...

This was said to make music sound more ëin the room.í Later, a similar control (sometimes called ëloudnessí), showed up on several amplifier units in my long parade of audio equipment, with the same ...

On his death, Seiler bequeathed Bruckner his Bˆsendorfer grand piano, which ...

ironic subversion entirely absent here.

Shortly after the premiËre of Olivo e Pascuale in Rome, on January 7, 1827, Donizetti returned to Naples to negotiate a contract with Domenico Barbaja, manager of the three most prestigious theaters ...

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

From onesto on, these phrases all begin with the same three notes—it is not easy to tell which is the singing coach and which the slow-witted pupil, but the audience knows that Iago, usurping Otello’s ...

was produced in 1997 by Jan Schmidt-Garre as a television series of thirteen ...

While the story is a complicated Old Testament plot, Mendelssohn’s music captures the tone of the tragedy with delight, whimsy, and severity. Conductor Helmuth Rilling leads the three female soloists, ...