Your guide to classical music online
Your guide to classical music online
Fiorilla was one of two comic roles in Maria Callas’ repertoire, the other being Rossini’s Rosina. Il Turco is a strange work, witty and wry
To work backwards, taking the bonus material first, we are presented with the type of recital that tenors simply don’t give anymore (date and place
I wanted desperately to like this set when it was released in 1975; three of my favorite singers (who happened to be among the world’s
Rostropovich’s Lady Macbeth is truly one of the “Great Recordings of the Century”. This first-ever and still best recording of Shostakovich’s operatic masterpiece was a
This was recorded long before the discovery of the hundreds of additional pages of Offenbach’s score that has informed performances since the mid-1980s. In other
With a cast this good, how can you go wrong? Well, I’ll tell you. Gianandrea Gavazzeni, a La Scala stalwart with great credentials in the
Boieldieu was, for want of a better description, a bel-cantist; his vocal lines are decorated and at times virtuosic–particularly in his writing for tenor. But
This is a fabulous surprise. Who knew it existed? It presents, in good stereo (broadcast?) sound about two-hours-and-40-minutes of this opera (about 40 minutes less
In 1963, the opera world finally was becoming accustomed to Joan Sutherland, who had become an overnight star four years previously at Covent Garden. Here
What is more important, words or music? That’s essentially the plot of Richard Strauss’ operatic swan song, for which Clemens Krauss fashioned a mildly droll
