appears at the end of performances and is deservedly applauded, for she symbolizes the triumph of good over evil, values we all want to believe in. This gives The Passenger such potent extra-musical ...

The Shostakovich centenary in 2006 brought new attention to the composer and resulted in a barrage of recording projects, including the reissue of Haitinkís classics from the late 1970s and early ...

While the story is a complicated Old Testament plot, Mendelssohn’s music captures the tone of the tragedy with delight, whimsy, and severity. Conductor Helmuth Rilling leads the three female soloists, ...

2005 to an extended run of full houses, so it can at least be said to have already proved its worth. Let loose for 24 hours of shore leave in New York City, three young sailors go in search of some ...

‘A monument to this most beautiful of all dreams’ is how Wagner described the intoxicating contemplation of love that is his Tristan und Isolde, and it is essentially as a dream that Nicholas Lehnhoff ...

Let me tell you about an intergalactic oratorio. What on earth is that, you might conceivably ask. And in order to initiate a dialogue I might suggest that you speculate about its constituent parts. A ...

It seems odd to warm to the idea of the American Dream today, but it is worth remembering that for much of the second half of the nineteenth century and… ...

the creation of opera, an Italian invention. Primo Riccitelli, whose name is ...

The label’s name and legendary yellow logo synonymous for many music lovers ...

From onesto on, these phrases all begin with the same three notes—it is not easy to tell which is the singing coach and which the slow-witted pupil, but the audience knows that Iago, usurping Otello’s ...

Composed originally for a Vienna premiere in 1864 the present version of Les FÈes du Rhin, or Die Rheinnixen, was published in the last few years as part of the critical edition of the complete works ...

Originally released on then-high quality line of Philips Classics LPs and later reissued on CD, the Pentatone system reprocesses the multi-channel source by using the source without any artificial ...