In Wordsworth’s great ode Intimations of Immortality there is an imaginative reference to “the clouds that gather round the ...

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

This was said to make music sound more ëin the room.í Later, a similar control (sometimes called ëloudnessí), showed up on several amplifier units in my long parade of audio equipment, with the same ...

ladies whose hearts he flutters; the censors wouldn’t have stood for it.

Pared down to essentials, all attention is on the music. The stage is almost empty, no props, no furnishings. At first you think, why stage this at all, then? Why not just a concert performance? But ...

Shostakovich’s ‘Babi Yar’ Symphony, his thirteenth, is amongst his greatest works – and yet in a sense it disappeared completely after its troubled premiere on December 18 th, 1962. The composer ...

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.

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

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 ...

perhaps we had all better settle down to this new era.

Michael Maniaci (Photo: Lake, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) The Rise of the Male Soprano? Michael Maniaci has a fight on his hands. In the world of baroque opera he’s a young singer who seems to have it ...