
Conductor Diego Fasolis and his very capable forces do everything they can to breathe life into these two competently written though stylistically mediocre and often
Barabbas Dialogues is a major statement by one of today’s leading composers. It is highly original and imaginative in form, yet its musical style is
This recording is of Wagner’s first version of Dutchman, the version that was finished in Paris in 1841 in which the action is set in
You would not think that a part with as many low-lying and darkly exclamatory passages–not to mention one described by Lotte Lehmann as “more difficult
Any live performance of this, Rossini’s last opera, is an occasion. Its grand scale, complex plot, and emotional depths on both personal and political levels,
Le Roi Arthus, Chausson’s only completed opera, took the composer 10 years to write and was not premiered until four years after his death. He
This vastly entertaining comic work centers around Kate, a talkative, shrewish woman who is avoided by everyone at the village dance. Angry, she announces that
Corsican-born César Vezzani (1888-1951) was one of the last of the now-vanished breed of French dramatic tenors. This welcome Marston set, the second of a
This lively, lusty, stunningly recorded new Carmina Burana goes right to the top of the heap, sharing pride of place with the celebrated performances of