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Floyd: Cold Sassy Tree/Houston Grand Opera

Robert Levine

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,

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Joseph Haydn: La fedelta premiata

Robert Levine

Composed for the re-opening of the Esterhaza opera house in 1781, La fedelta premiata, a pastoral semi-buffa opera, concerns itself with the goddess Diana’s decree,

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Massenet’s Werther

Robert Levine

Opera doesn’t come any more Romantic (with an uppercase R) than Massenet’s Werther; indeed the hero’s suicide is so textbook-tortured-poet-in-unrequited-love-situation that were the opera not

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“Bach-maninov” from Alexandre Tharaud

Jed Distler May 25, 2025

Harding’s Tosca – Big and Brash

Robert Levine May 25, 2025

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CD From Hell: Sokolov’s Bogus Profundity In Mozart and Rachmaninov

David Hurwitz May 25, 2025

Benjamin Bernheim Rules as Met’s Hoffmann
by Robert Levine
October 6, 2024
Benjamin Bernheim Rules as Met’s Hoffmann Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, NY; Oct 24, 2024 Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann is a nasty work. Despite its
RIP David Vernier, Editor-in-Chief
by David Hurwitz
August 4, 2024
David Vernier, ClassicsToday.com’s founding Editor-in-Chief passed away Thursday morning, August 1, 2024 after a long battle with cancer. The end came shockingly quickly. Just a
Finally, It’s SIR John
by ClassicsToday
June 24, 2024
He’d received many honors before, but it wasn’t until last week that John Rutter, best known for his choral compositions and arrangements, especially works related