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This 2010 revival of Simon Boccanegra from the Met was designed to showcase Placido Domingo’s undertaking of the title role, normally sung by a baritone.
Here, in quite good sound, is the February 15, 1958 broadcast of Puccini’s Bohème from the Met, with a wonderful conductor and excellent cast. Thomas
Philip Glass’ A Madrigal Opera was written in 1980, in between Einstein on the Beach and Satyagraha–however it is unlike any of his other works
I believe this is the only note-complete performance of this opera, and furthermore, the only one that is sung in all of the original keys
Ermione is Rossini’s darkest, angriest opera. It was such a resounding flop at its premiere that after its initial run Rossini withdrew it entirely. It
Bach’s Magnificat in D major is one of those rare works in which music and text are brought together in perfect symmetry and harmony, all
Recorded live in Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall over two evenings in May, 2009, this concert recording of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung easily stands among the work’s three or
For some performers these days, rendering of Bach’s choral works comes down to a numbers game: from the most basic cantata to the most elaborate
Extraordinarily well-written, prodigiously inventive, and relentlessly exciting–these aren’t terms normally used to describe 18th-century Masses, but then there is nothing “normal” about this late work
Telemann used to be much maligned; it was believed that he wrote too much. As it turns out, his average was pretty high: most of
