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The ballet’s story is quickly told: Pygmalion, a sculptor, falls in love with one of his own creations. Would-be girlfriend Céphise doesn’t buy it and
Harnoncourt fans will be excited to know that their hero
Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s revisionist assault on Verdi continues. After a disastrous
Believe it or not, this was going to be an
There is a DVD available of Nikolaus Harnoncourt leading the Concertgebouw in Beethoven’s Missa solemnis that I previously reviewed for Classicstoday.com (see reviews archive): it
This new recording of Mozart’s Requiem (in the edition I
It’s no disservice to Handel, whose splendid Utrech Te Deum
Taken from a pair of semi-staged concert performances in Lucerne in the summer of 2010, this is a most scrupulously rehearsed and performed Fidelio. Conductor
As most opera lovers know, Beethoven toiled greatly over his sole opera which was premiered in 1805 and revised in 1806–and then finally again in
Olivier Messiaen’s multi-movement works are carved out of large, sonorous blocks fashioned from material that radiates more than develops. This is especially true of his
