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This is a terrific opera video, a rare success due not only to excellent performances and fine production courtesy of the BBC, producer Fiona Morris,
This performance of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, recorded at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in April, 2008, has some great things going for it.
The last new, home-grown production of Eugene Onegin in Moscow–the opera’s original home–was in 1944 and has been in use since then. It was rife
Philemon and Baucis is a strange and remarkable work. Originally composed in 1773, it is the only survivor that we know of among Haydn’s scant
Acide (the story is best known from Handel’s Acis and Galatea) was composed in 1763 and revised a decade later but never performed again. It
Recorded live at Barcelona’s Teatre Liceu in September, 1989, Leonardo Balada’s newly composed opera was given a fine premiere: the Catalan composer (who studied with
This performance, from the 1989 Vienna Festival, was greeted with rave reviews: “Profound, scrupulous, and boldly untraditional,” claimed Die Welt. By today’s standards this is
Was the audience at the premiere of this opera in 1819 half-dead or half-deaf? It ran a few performances but was so badly received that
Nonesuch’s 1987 recording of this opera, produced when the work was new, was revelatory. Though clearly a piece of mimimalism, it did not rely only
This 1955 performance is a terrible disappointment. Who would not have wanted to hear Nicolai Gedda sing the rarely-performed tenor version of this opera in
