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Your guide to classical music online
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Your guide to classical music online
One need only watch Angela Gheorghiu as Tosca, scratching her chin in puzzlement as she tries to figure out who Cavaradossi’s painting of Mary Magdalene
This 2009 production from Baden-Baden with the Munich Philharmonic finds both Renée Fleming and Christian Thielemann in spectacular form, with an assisting cast that is
This production, from Glyndebourne, is a pain in the neck. The plot is well-known: taking place during the First Crusade, the knight Rinaldo must choose
This is a great musical account of the note-complete (usually heavily cut) Die Frau ohne Schatten, produced at Salzburg in July, 2011. In fact, this
The Verona Arena is known for its plus-sized productions; spectacle always has played as great a part as the music. This new Roméo et Juliette,
For those of you who are tired of watching productions of this opera that are either inhabited by rats or feature Lohengrin and Elsa building
This thrilling performance, filmed for television in 1965, repays patience. It is sung in German (not the original French, or most familiar, the clumsy Italian)
Whenever I’m not listening to this opera, which is most of the time, I despise it. The plot’s intrigues are unclear, there are long moments
During the late 1970s Glenn Gould and filmmaker Bruno Monsaingeon planned an extensive series of television films on the music of Bach. They completed three
I could not take my eyes or ears off this production and I suspect you will not be able to either. David Alden directs on
