Listeners eager to familiarize themselves with Giuseppe Anselmi’s artistry are ...Read Article -->

Keine Sängerin hätte einen passenderen Namen haben können, denn wo immer Victoria ...Read Article -->

This fall San Francisco Opera embarks on a glorious adventure, starring two of the gr ...Read Article -->

Soprano Frida Leider shone onstage in many parts, well beyond the Wagner heroines tha ...Read Article -->

This disc revels much of he beauty, expressive eloquence and musical imagination that ...Read Article -->

Latonia Moore is a Texan through and through. ...Read Article -->

One of today’s greatest artists, Iowa’s own Simon Estes, makes his long-a ...Read Article -->

The Marston label has scored another bullseye with this collection covering British t ...Read Article -->

Pagliacci is the only work by Ruggero Leonavallo that most people ever encounter, alt ...Read Article -->

Russell Thomas’s singing instantly commands attention with his strikingly indiv ...Read Article -->

Edith Mason’s voice, a luminous lyric soprano, ascended with extraordinary eleg ...Read Article -->

Roger explores operatic repertoire from Massene’s Chérubin, and Handel’s ...Read Article -->

Roger explores operatic repertoire from Antonín Dvorák’s Rusalka, and Wolfgan ...Read Article -->

Commissioned by the Teatro La Fenice, Rossini’s Sigismondo was premiered there ...Read Article -->

The Tudor era has attracted opera composers for nearly two centuries. ...Read Article -->

Jessye Norman’s vocalism could blaze with intensity as Stravinsky’s Jocas ...Read Article -->

With his enthralling skill as a musical dramatist, Benjamin Britten brings Henry Jame ...Read Article -->

During the 1930s, Broadway and Hollywood produced numerous hits requiring the crac ...Read Article -->

Semyon Bychkov professes a boundless devotion to the music of Tchaikovsky. “Tchaiko ...Read Article -->

Cardinal Benedetto Pamphili's libretto for Handel's first oratorio, IL TRIONFO DEL TE ...Read Article -->

What do composer Christoph Willibald Gluck, painer Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, filmm ...Read Article -->

Terrific voices sailing through exhilarating coloratura present the aural equivalent ...Read Article -->

All gifted sopranos should regard Anna Moffo's career path as a cautionary tale. Afte ...Read Article -->

Certain duo title roles in opera require a chemistry onstage that can make all the di ...Read Article -->

When I last counted, the catalogue included no fewer than seven CD performances of LU ...Read Article -->

This set offers limitless pleasure to anyone interested in historically important Fre ...Read Article -->

John Crosby, the founding general director of the Santa Fe Opera, inaugurated the com ...Read Article -->

An early performance by Quinn Kelsey exemplifies the thrill of witnessing a gifted yo ...Read Article -->

During a career that spanned three decades, Renata Tebaldi’s voice developed in une ...Read Article -->

This season's Susannah, Patricia Racette, is celebrating her 25th anniversary with Sa ...Read Article -->

After its triumphant 1901 world premiere in Prague, Antonín Dvorák's RUSALKA took m ...Read Article -->

World-renowned Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel has triumphed as Falstaff in Sydney (w ...Read Article -->

From the age of 15 my goal was to work in opera. Undergraduate and post-graduate stud ...Read Article -->

In the vocal marathon that is Strauss's ELEKTRA, one passage truly separates the wome ...Read Article -->

The music and drama of SIMON BOCCANEGRA are magnificent from start to finish, and yet ...Read Article -->

In 1979 a long-awaited revival of OKLAHOMA! arrived on Broadway. having grown up list ...Read Article -->

Jussi Björling's exalted position among historically important singers needs no just ...Read Article -->

What accounts for the unique flame that blazes in Cecilia Bartoli whenever she perfor ...Read Article -->

To leave, to break, to find, to keep, to stay, to wait, to hope, to dream, to weep an ...Read Article -->

Swedish soprano Elisabeth Söderström, one of the best-loved artists of her time, wh ...Read Article -->

In savouring this program, listeners are sure to fall in love with Puccini's Manon Le ...Read Article -->

Novels, plays films, and even a few operas have depicted a fanatical man of God who r ...Read Article -->

In April 2008 the Münch Philharmoniker and its music director, Christian Thielemann ...Read Article -->

Today's operatic world tends to place singers in compartments by composer - Mozart so ...Read Article -->

Danielle de Niese creates electricity the moment she steps on stage. It's impossible ...Read Article -->

Having set vocal standards in nearly all of his repertoire, Thomas Quasthoff reaches ...Read Article -->

Gottfried Kraus's informative booklet note with this DVD reminds us that Dietrich Fis ...Read Article -->

At the age of 31, with limited operatic experience, Patrice Chéreau was invited to c ...Read Article -->

In examining these 13 recent operatic reissues from the 1940s and 1950s, I find only ...Read Article -->

For a generation of American operagoers, Beverly Sills and Manon were synonymous. ...Read Article -->

This disc calls to mind the three decades prior to World War I, when salon repertoire ...Read Article -->

JENUFA will change your life - or, to be more specific, your operagoing life. Once yo ...Read Article -->

Sergei Rachmaninov adored singing and singers. In childhood he was introduced to the ...Read Article -->

The combination of a sensuous, multi-colored mezzo-soprano voice performing with a vi ...Read Article -->

Long before Lulu and Lolita, Manon Lescaut held men in her thrall. Abbé Prévost's h ...Read Article -->

Within a decade or two, no living person will have experienced Caruso in a live perfo ...Read Article -->

Can you think of any operatic characters you'd want as friends? You could enjoy yours ...Read Article -->