present production — the one Jean-Pierre Ponnelle was doing all over the operatic world — was created for Marilyn Horne, not so terribly long ago.

the final phase of his operatic career. Here, finally, he found his true ...

Moreover, the conductor is a good ëroutinierí and thatís all that can be said. Nowadays one doesnít accept anymore the truncated versions of yore with almost half an hour of music missing. Still as a ...

Now they are all grand old (mostly dead) men, and the public, which is as curious about new sounds in concert music as in popular music, having heard such sounds in the background of a hundred films, ...

lacklustre opening certainly wasn’t a case of ‘aging’. Eyre’s production may be 25-years-old but it’s still handsome in conception and design, Bob Crowley’s sets sculpting gracious spaces.

Music composed by Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1858-1919). Libretto by the composer based on a ...

Your reviewer will resist the urge to consider this an attempt to get a few more sales out of a *La Traviata* that may not stand up so well in comparison to the many ...

The maestro himself took his distance from this work, even though the opera had clocked more performances during his lifetime than all his other operaís (sorry Gesamtkunstwerken). But this was not at ...

The Wigmore Hall, which saw so many premieres of his works and where he made his professional debut in 1942, is honouring the ...

of ‘the Yellow Label’ have been central to the recording of Wagner’s ...

complaints of a French overdose; but most opera lovers in the rest of the ...