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Carlisle Floyd’s latest opera, premiered at the Houston Grand Opera in 2000, is based on a novel by Olive Burns, and it’s a fine, down-home,
Notwithstanding its admirable points, Naxos’ studio recording of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde faces heavy-hitting competition on all fronts. You might describe the engineering as a
What a wonderful surprise! Eino Tamberg, an Estonian composer born in 1930, is a true, unabashed neo-Romantic with great respect for the “forms” of opera.
When this recording was made 40 years ago it had a lot going for it, and in many ways it still does. The three vocalists
This may not be the best-sung Mahler Symphony No. 8 on disc (though it’s very good), but as an artistic conception of the work I
Britten’s last opera contains some astoundingly beautiful and arresting music: the arrival in Venice, the passage describing the writer Aschenbach’s view of the sea, and
Richard Strauss’ first opera, Guntram, premiered in Munich, was a failure. And so Feuersnot (“Fire Emergency,” or “Lack of Fire”), his second, was a satire
Audiophiles and orchestral enthusiasts alike have long cherished Paul Paray’s late-’50s/early-’60s Mercury Living Presence recordings with the Detroit Symphony devoted to French showpieces. Here, five
Soprano Dorothee Mields sings like an angel, tenor Benoît Haller’s voice is warm and agile and melodious, the instrumental soloists are all world-class, and their
Between 1810 and 1812 Rossini composed these five one-act “farces” for the Teatro San Moise in Venice. They may be formulaic–even in their plots, most
